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ALT Havelock House after the render was added over the brickwork and it became the headquarters of the newly launched Ulster Television (UTV). Today it looks much the same and is in good condition, being used up until a few months ago, except the paint over the render has been changed from mint green to a shade of peach-pink.
ALT Havelock House in 1959 just before the former linen handkerchief factory built in 1871 opposite the Gasworks on Ormeau Rd had its polychrome brickwork rendered over and became the home of Ulster Television (UTV), the first of the smaller regional stations in the ITV network... making it part of these islands' industrial heritage, a key building in Belfast's world-dominating fame as 'Linenopolis' and then a local landmark in media innovation and history. The building, one of the oldest surviving structures in South Belfast (with an older building from 1867 possibly incorporated inside it), has adapted with the times, and can be saved and repurposed benefitting the community, the environment and the unique character of the city.
ALT The Orpheus building in Belfast on York St built 1935, originally a Co-Operative store with a ballroom on the top floor, then taken over by the Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster, who demolished it 2015-2016 for a bland and very expensive glass-box replacement. It was in good condition and so well built it took a few months to flatten it.
ALT The Curzon demolished 2003. This hugely popular local Art Deco cinema also (like Havelock House) on Belfast's Ormeau Rd opened in 1936 and was designed by John McBride Neill, architect of several Art Deco cinemas across Northern Ireland including The Strand in East Belfast and The Tonic in Bangor, and one in Donegal. The cinema closed in 1999, and after demolition was replaced by a non-descript block of apartments. Recently, 'The Curzon Project' collected memories in the form of oral histories and held events celebrating the place this much treasured place held in peoples' memories of life growing up in the city.
ALT Mammatus clouds Ballycastle
