Great Victoria Street, Belfast
Great Victoria Street in
The street connects with the Donegall Road and the Lisburn Road which are also linked into Shaftesbury Square in the southern direction and towards the Donegall Square in the northern direction, which links via Howard Street into Donegall Place.
The street itself was named in honour of Queen Victoria. It includes the Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker, which is in a prominent walking route into Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station. There are also a number of churches located along the street.
The station, which is a terminal building, probably designed by Ulster Railway engineer John Godwin, was completed in 1848.[1] In April 1976
After a feasibility study was commissioned in 1986 it was agreed that a new development on the site, incorporating the reintroduction of the Great Northern Railway, was viable. The Great Northern Tower was built on the site of the old station terminus in 1992,[2] and the second Great Victoria Street Station was opened on 30 September 1995.[3] It is only yards from the site of its predecessor.
Notable addresses
- Grand Opera House, Belfast, an ornate late Victorian theatre
- Crown Liquor Saloon, an ornate late Victorian pub
- Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station
- Europa Hotel, Belfast, the most bombed hotel in Europe
- Blackstaff House, BBC Northern Ireland
References
- ISBN 0-7509-2897-2.
- ^ "17 Great Victoria Street | Great Northern Tower". futurebelfast.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- BBC NI. Archivedfrom the original on 1 November 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2008.
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