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Saintfield Road, BELFAST, BT8 6AF

A handful of the firms classic cars can be seen in the foreground.

The gravestone records that Robert Henry McDowell was a member of Purdy’s Burn Flute Band and was killed by an attack on the band on 11th September 1880.

Flush bracket located on the northern side of Knockbreda Parish Church Image in Belfast. The number on the bracket is OSNIBM 1006. The mark is 50.90 metres above MSL. A flush bracket is a type of bench mark set onto the face of a building. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=11037856 for many other examples I have found.

The A55 road forms Belfast's outer-ring road.

19th Century memorial to various members of the Finlay family who lived at Lismara, County Antrim. The most interesting name recorded on the memorial is that of Percy Finlay, a Lance Corporal of the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch). He died, aged 23, on 13th March 1884 fighting at the Battle of Tamasi in the Soudan while trying to rescue one of his officers.

This mausoleum seems to have a tree growing up through it. Due to the damage caused, I could not make out any inscriptions.

The grave and memorial of the Fitzpatrick family. The gravestone records that William Fitzpatrick was born in 1786 and died in 1849 but most of the rest of the writing is obscured by the rampant ivy.

19th Century memorial to various members of the Gilmore family who lived at Pakenham Place, Belfast. The memorial records that Andrew Gilmore, aged 36, died along with his 13 year old son (also Andrew), in a boating accident in Bangor Bay on May 27th 1866.

Memorial to the celebrated engineer, architect and politician Sir Charles Lanyon, as well as various other members of his family. Lanyon (1813-88) was born in Eastbourne but moved to Dublin in the 1830s to become a civil engineer for the Irish Board of Works. Moving north, he took up the post of County Surveyor for Antrim, engineering the coast road between Larne and Portrush and the Belfast-Ballymena railway line. He was also responsible for the Belfast-Bangor line in Co. Down, and the Queen's and Ormeau bridges in Belfast. From the mid-1840s onwards he set about constructing some of the most famous landmarks in Belfast architecture. His buildings are too numerous to mention in full but some of the most important and well known are Queen's College (later Queen's University) Image, Crumlin Road Courthouse and Gaol Image, the Palm House in Botanic Gardens Image and the Union Theological College Image In the 1860's he diversified his career, resigning from the County Surveyorship and was elected Mayor of Belfast in 1862. He was also elected President of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland from 1862-63, was a Fellow of the Institute of British Architects and a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. He was knighted in 1868. Lanyon died at his house, The Abbey, Whiteabbey Image, on the 31st May 1888. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lanyon and http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/charleslanyon.htm for more information on his life. Other notable members of the family mentioned on the memorial include Captain William Mortimer Lanyon, 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, who was killed on active service on the 5th April 1915 and is buried at Fleurbaix Cemetery, France. Also mentioned is Sir Charles's eldest son John who died and was buried at Orotaba, Tenerife, on the 13th February 1900.