Titanic Town 1912

“North Belfast dockers, millworkers, shipyard workers – Titanic town 1912″.

The Titanic mural in north Belfast is now twelve years old; it is generally faded and peeling in several places, and the plaster filling a crack in the walls has fallen out (as can be seen in the images above and below). (For the mural previously, see X01139.)

Along the bottom are the names of various Belfast pubs and other businesses: The Waterloo, The Terminus, The Sportsman’s Arms, The White Hart, The Bowling Green, The City Arms, The Orpheus – York Street, Railway Bar – Canning Street [image from 1970], The Edinburgh Castle [the boat of the Union-Castle line, launched 1910, built at H&W?], York Street Mill, The Gibralter [sic] Bar [whose then-owner was killed in 1972], Ye Old Castle [a bar (and restaurant?) bombed in 1971], The White Lion.

St. Vincent Street, north Belfast.