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Ardmore Avenue, BELFAST, BT7 3HD

This is a residential street with new housing developments.

Part of a widespread campaign, this poster, on a bus shelter close to the corner of the Ormeau road and Ardmore Avenue, announces that the name “Northern Bank” will change to “Danske Bank” on 15 November [2012]. The Northern Image, Image and Image, started life as a partnership in 1809. It acquired the other local bank, the Belfast Image in 1970 being part of the Midland group until 1988 when bought by the National Australia Bank before being sold to the Danish Danske Bank in 2005.

This is located at the junction of Ardmore Avenue and the Upper Ormeau Road.

See Image (November 2005). The former Our lady of the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic church at 350 Ormeau Road, completed in 1898, in what then countryside, to a design JJ O’Shea. Listed as HB26/01/021 and also on the official “at risk” register. Vacant and now offered for sale (along with the former presbytery (348 Image). Described by the agents as follows: “The properties comprise a former Church building and an adjacent two and a half storey detached house which is now in derelict state. The church is graded as a B1 listed building while the detached house has no listed status whatsoever. The church is Grade B listed with effect from 19th August 1986. To the rear of the church is a former garden/orchard, which may be used as a car park for future development. Planning: The church has had planning permission for a change of use to a museum, art gallery, coffee shop, bistro, offices and small creche. Reference: Z/1997/0772”. This photograph appears as a matter of record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the sale.

This another residential street, with good houses of late Victorian vintage.

This former priest's house stands next to the derelict Holy Rosary Church. The Holy Rosary parish still exists but parishioners now worship at the Church of the Good Shepherd, near the junction of Ormeau and Ravenhill Roads.

See Image The blocked-up former presbytery (no 348).

The deteriorating fabric of the building and the availability of a fine chapel across the road in the Convent of the Good Shepherd prompted the Diocese of Down and Connor to put the church and its adjoining parochial house on the market. The church was built between 1896-98 in Scrabo sandstone with Dumfries dressing.

Wall-mounted EIIR letter box and ornate door (now leading to modern apartments) on the Ormeau Road.

The large house on the corner is the Ardmore Medical Centre. Image