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Cleaver Park, BELFAST, BT9 5HX

Looking down from the Malone Road (at Marlborough Park).

A small development now under construction at 102 Malone Road - “A Luxury Development of 8 Apartments and 8 Semi-Villas”. The name comes from "Montpellier" – a local house once owned by Sir Samuel Dill http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/399. The new houses use the spelling “Mountpelier”. See also Image

Cut bench mark on a stone wall on the Malone Road in Belfast, it lies about 3 metres north of the junction with Notting Hill Image The mark is 24.64 metres above MSL. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=11037856 for many other examples I have found.

A rare example of a painted street sign in Belfast - this one situated on the Malone Road at the exclusive Notting Hill. The old postal district can be seen, albeit well faded, below the name - Belfast 9 or BT9 is regarded as one of the best postcodes in Northern Ireland.

The view up the Malone Road towards Belfast city centre. At about 8:40am traffic was considerably lighter than normal. See also Image

The view down Notting Hill. Although most major arterial routes around the city were fairly passable, minor streets had not been gritted and were only passable with extreme care. See also Image

The hand-painted street name and old postal district number, at the Malone Road end of Notting Hill – previously seen in Image

A fine old house on the Malone Road in Belfast, now part of Victoria College school. The house was originally occupied by the Richmond Lodge High School for Girls which moved to this location in 1911 (the school was founded in the 1880s firstly being located at 28 Elmwood Avenue and then 13 Stranmillis Road before finally settling here). The school remained here, latterly to be known as Richmond Lodge School, Belfast, until an amalgamation with nearby Victoria College in 1987 and it is still in use today. Prior to being used as a school, this was a substantial farmhouse sitting in much larger grounds than today, on what was then the outskirts of Belfast. c1890 the name was changed to Rupert Lodge and was being let to various tenants (in 1900 the house was occupied by a Jane M. Murphy; the Belfast Street Directory of 1908 records that the house was occupied by a solicitor called P. Macaulay). Around that time the old farmhouse was enlarged to create the substantial building that still stands today. The name Nairn House has been acquired sometime in the early 20th Century as a tribute to Miss Violet Nairn, headmistress of Richmond Lodge 1911-1920.

See Image The apartments, facing the Malone Road, nearing completion.

Queen Elizabeth II postbox on the Malone Road in Belfast. Taken during the cold spell in early 2010.