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1869 – Brookfield Warehouse, 30 Donegall Street, Belfast
Architect: W.H. Lynn, Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon

The Brookfield Linen Company Ltd were flax spinners and power loom linen manufacturers and merchants who operated from their Donegall Street property fro
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1953 – Bostock House, Belfast, Co. Antrim
Architect: Easton & Robertson

The London based architects Easton & Robertson were specialists in medical facilities. Originally constructed in the early 1950’s to provide nurses’ accommodation for 220 nurses. The building was located adjacent to the R
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1964 – Deramore Arms, 361 Ormeau Road, Belfast
Architect: Robert McKinstry & Associates

Wild exterior for a modern bar with upstairs lounge in Belfast - a bold relief sculpture wrapping around the corner at street
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1958 – Carolan Grammar School for Girls, Belfast
Architect: Donald Shanks, Principal Architect to Belfast Education Committee

Constructed over the period 1957-58, the school building featured stone gable walls with curtain wall glazing over the three floors. Donald Shanks later formed Shanks Leighton Kenne
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1937 – Stadium Cinema, Shankill Road, Belfast
Architect: Robert Sharpe Hill

The Stadium Cinema, located at the junction of Shankill Road and Tennent Street, was the largest single-level cinema in Northern Ireland, with seating for 1400 on a stadium plan that had a
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1932 – Orpheus Building, Belfast Co-operative Society, York St., Belfast
Architect: Samuel Stevenson

The Orpheus Building was once part of Belfast's largest department store. Finished in red brick wit
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1985 – Calvert House, Castle Place, Belfast
Architect: Kennedy Fitzgerald

Replaced Lanyon's Ulster Club of 1863, ruining that part of the streetscape of Castle Place. A facade of tinted glass and polished stonework. Demolished. Winner of the RIAI Gold Medal
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1960 – Private House, 5 Windsor Ave. North, Belfast
Architect: Munce & Kennedy

Practice based in Belfast in 1960s. The practice was formed in 1919 between James Stilwell Munce and Edwin Riddell Kennedy. After Kennedy's death in 1930 the business was carried on by Munce under
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1906 – Methodist Church and Schools, Lisburn Rd., Belfast
Architect: James St John Phillips

Only the school wing was constructed. Demolished in 2011 and replaced with a modern church and community centre.

"Our illustration
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1863 – Ulster Club, Castle Place, Belfast
Architect: Charles Lanyon

A stuccoed bow-fronted central bay with a cast-iron balcony in the Regency style lent the Ulster Club an air of dignity in the hustle of Castle Place. The club sold their premises in the late 1960s.
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1881 – St. Thomas’s National Schools, Windsor Ave., Belfast
Architect: Edward Nevill Banks

Now demolished, this school was constructed in red brick.

"These schools have been erected in the suburbs of Belfast in connection with St. Thomas's Church. They consist of boys',
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1881 – Shops, Cornmarket, Belfast
Architect: Young & Mackenzie

Demolished.
"The new shops shown in the illustration are almost ready for occupation, and have been built by Mr. William McCammond, of Belfast, under the direction of Messrs. Young & Mackenzie. The materials for the front are mainly Dungannon sandstone,
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1876 – Warehouse, No.77 Victoria Street, Belfast
Architect: Young & Mackenzie

Demolished. "This building has been erected in one of the main thoroughfares of Belfast, for the wholesale drug business of Mr. W. Collins. The front is of red Suffolk bricks with black mortar, braide
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1877 – Warehouse, Nos. 25-27 Wellington Place, Belfast
Architect: John Lanyon

Replaced by an office building circa 1965.
"This warehouse is four storeys in height, with an additional storey at top lighted from the roof, and has a frontage of 81 feet to We
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1755 – Belvoir Park, Newtownbreda, Co. Down
Architect: Christopher Myers / William J. Barre

A Georgian house for Arthur Hill, later Viscount Dungannon, which was added to the North end of an earlier house. Later additions by William J. Barre to the house including the fine courtyard with r
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