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Cutter's Lane, Belfast
A development of townhouses close to the Lagan. Not shown on the Google map. A plaque at the entrance gives the date of construction as 2005.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 30 Jun 2009
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Lockview Road, Belfast [2]
The Lockview Road, looking towards the Stranmillis Road.
Image: © Rossographer
Taken: 10 Apr 2008
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Fungus, Stranmillis,Belfast (3)
What seems to be a member of the russula family (russula lepida) growing at the public car park on the Lockview Road.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 1 Nov 2012
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The Lagan canal (site of), Stranmillis, Belfast (September 2018)
The former Lagan Canal, at the Lockview Road, 60 years after formal abandonment, now in-filled and used as a car park. Little trace remains except, perhaps for some minor relics https://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/2402 here
Image (August 2008).
The northern entrance to no 1 lock was approximately opposite today’s Lockview Court.
The southern entrance was just west of the weir
Image - not to be confused with this lock
Image which allowed river traffic to bypass the weir on the east.
In 1900 the Lagan Navigation (the river and the canal) handled just over 100,000 tons of goods. By 1950 traffic dropped to around 20,000 tons and had disappeared completely by 1955.
The 1951 street directory, for the Lockview Road, shows “6a. Inland Navigation Co., R. L. Kemp, Proprietor 6b. Lagan Navigation Co. - S. Mairs, F.C.C.S., secretary; F. Patterson, Bank Ranger”.
The area, once industrial is now residential and recreational with the car park used mainly by walkers and cyclists heading towards the towpath. There were significant changes with demolition and clearance for construction of the Governor’s Bridge.
For further reading see “The Canals of the North of Ireland” by WA McCutcheon, David & Charles, 1965.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 21 Sep 2018
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Sycamore keys, Belfast (October 2014)
A few of the thousands of sycamore keys along the Lockview Road and towpath. Most will never germinate.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 23 Oct 2014
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New house, Lockview Road, Belfast (July 2018)
A new house, under construction, beside the Lockview Road. The following planning permission (17 October 2017) applies “LA04/2017/0165/F New infill site for single two storey dwelling house with associated site works with new access from Lockview Road. lands adjacent to 28 Prince Edward Drive Belfast”.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 31 Jul 2018
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Cat, Stranmillis, Belfast
An excited cat, which had found some sort of prey, in the undergrowth near the Lockview Road.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 12 Sep 2014
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Clothing bank, Belfast
A charity bin, for unwanted clothing, at the public car park on the Lockview Road.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 19 Apr 2013
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Cotoneaster berries, Stranmillis, Belfast - October 2015(1)
Part of a magnificent crop of cotoneaster berries on trees at the western side of the Lockview Road public car park.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 8 Oct 2015
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"Red Bull" MINI, Belfast
A MINI, in “Red Bull” livery, parked on the Lockview Road. Continue to
Image
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 14 Dec 2009
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