The Harland & Wolff shipyard is on Queen’s Island, a piece of land formed when the channel into Belfast was expanded. Workers would walk from east Belfast to the shipyard. This is the scene in (modern-day) Armitage Close/Harkness Parade in east Belfast, with a mural of turn-of-the-century shipyard workers by John Johnston, drawing inspiration from William Conor’s Shipyard Workers Crossing Queen’s Bridge and Over The Bridge.
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UDA and UFF nail-ups in Hawkin Street, Londonderry. Previously seen in 2006.
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On the Fountain-side wall of the Old Gaol: “Dedicated to the memory of all those who died in the 1st and 2nd World Wars and more recent conflicts.”
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Soldiers from the 36th (Ulster) Division go over the top at the battle of the Somme – the original photograph can be seen at the BBC. In faded or newly-sketched letters on the right, “At the going down of the sun/And in the morning/We will remember them.”
The UDA mural on the left of the youth club is to Sgt Lindsay Mooney.
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From left to right: the apprentice boys crying “No surrender!”; the breaking of the boom; the Guild Hall; Walker’s statue; and Roaring Meg, a cannon in the Double Bastion. Dopey Dick, the orca, is on the wall of the building to the right (see the news report in the Digital Film Archive).
These are paintings on boards, replacing the five wall-paintings seen in 2005.
Outside the Cathedral Youth Club in the Fountain.
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The Fountain area of Londonderry is decked out for Eleventh Night, when the bonfire (including Irish Tricolours) will be set alight.
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Residents of the upper Fountain decorate their houses with the names of the apprentice boys, with an arch over the gap in the inner “peace” line. Seen previously in 2002 and 2006.
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One of the tourist information boards along with walls of Derry; this one describes the history of the area around the Presbyterian church and the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall, including George Farquhar and his play The Beaux’ Stratagem. The platform in question is not a viewing platform for Orange parades but a gun platform in the walls of Derry.
Magazine Street Upper, Londonderry
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These images are from the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall in Society Street, Londonderry. When not on display in the street during celebrations of the Siege, Lundy’s effigy is stored in a narrow room in the hall. Brother [Samuel] David Montgomery was a part-time members of the UDR; he was shot by the IRA in the timber yard where he worked on February 10th, 1981.
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Graffiti in the Westland Road estate, off Cavehill Road, and from Ballysillan Road: “CYL [Cavehill Young Loyalists] – kill all taigs”. For the CYL, see previously Fearless. And, second, “KAT”, “UVF” on the shutters of Fryer Chuck’s, on the Ballysillan Road.
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