This is an old piece by Friz (web) on the T13 building between the Titanic centre and the H&W cranes, originally a warehouse, then an indoor skydiving venue, and most recently an “urban sport park”.
Hamilton Road, east Belfast
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Various street artists and writers painted the underpass at the end of Kyle Street that goes into Victoria Park (Belfast City Council). Here (top to bottom) is work by Friz (web), emic (web), GWELO, Wee Nuls (web), NOYS (ig), Rob Hilken (web), BORE, FGB (web), Imogen Donegan (ig), Jam (ig) + GoodRobottt (ig), Danni Simpson (web) + Karl Fenz (web)
With support from the Eastside Partnership (web), Connswater Greenway (web), and National Trust (web).
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The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe is by far the most famous of C.S. Lewis’s ‘Chronicles Of Narnia’. It was the first of the seven to be written – in 1950 – but as it is set in 1940, The Magician’s Nephew is often read first, as it is set in 1900 and concerns the creation of Narnia. The others are The Horse And His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle. Lewis was born in Dundela and raised in Strandtown, in east Belfast (CSLewisInstitute).
Tildarg Street, east Belfast. There are also a long-standing Narnia murals in Pansy Street and in Convention Court.
work-in-progress from April 18th:
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These flowers are by emic (web) on the Earlswood Road side of the Urban Roots salon (web) on the Upper Newtownards Road. The image above – with some of the doodle-grid still visible – is from the end of March, while the images of the completed piece are from May.
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An urban naturalist finds a friendly frog in an piece of waste-ground on the Woodstock Road at Nettlefield.
Street art by Keyto (ig) in east Belfast.
More nature on Woodstock/Cregagh: a heron by Peachzz.
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“‘Rubicon’ – the family home of Pte. William F. McFadzean, Victoria Cross, who gave his life to save his comrades at Thiepval Wood on 1st July 1916 immediately prior to the Battle Of The Somme.” – McFadzean died when he threw himself on a fallen box of grenades.
For his heroism, Billy McFadzean (14th RIR) was awarded the VC (WP). The other VC winners pictured alongside McFadzean in the Cappagh Gardens mural (above and immediately below) are G[eoffrey St. George Shillington] Cather, R[obert] Quigg, and E[ric] N[orman] F[rankland] Bell.
The Family home was on Cregagh Road at Cregagh Park – there’s a picture of McFadzean standing outside the house at Royal Irish. The “blue plaque” is the most recent addition to the scene.
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These crying eyes are a piece of Covid-era (2021) street art on the theme of loneliness by Wee Nuls for the NI Mental Health Arts Festival (Fb).
They are on the shutters of Framewerk on the Upper Newtownards Road.
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The area around the junction of the Newtownards Road and the Holywood Road in east Belfast is known as the “Holywood Arches”. The name comes from the fact that – up until 1950 – the old Belfast & County Down railway line from Comber (and beyond that from Newtownards or Newcastle) crossed over both streets on top of two large arches, wide enough to allow traffic in both directions and tall enough to accommodate double-decker buses (see e.g. this image on Pinterest).
This mural is on the shutters of the nearby Arches Café (web); the vintage photograph reproduced can be seen in this pdf from Eastside Partnership.
See also: Step Back In Time about a train crash in 1945 at Ballymacarrett station (on the Bangor line) that killed 22.
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Thursday, May 8th, marks the eightieth anniversary of VE or “Victory in Europe” day, the end of WWII on the continent. About 380,000 British soldiers died during the war. Commemorative events in Belfast include a walking tour of the city centre (City Council) and a dance on the HMS Belfast (IWM); for events elsewhere in Northern Ireland, see VE-VJDay80. Pubs will be open for an extra two hours (until 1 a.m.) on the day.
This printed flag is in Dee Street, east Belfast, previously home to various WWI commemorations (seen in All together Now | At The Eleventh Hour); for more on the KCIII and QEII boards included in the final image, below, see My God-Given Right To Rule.
See also: VE Day Celebrations | The Shankill Remembers VE Day | From D-Day To VE Day
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“I love it when a plan comes together” was the catch-phrase of Hannibal Smith, leader of the (fictional) A-Team, a crew of US soldiers from the Viet Nam war, on the run from the military police and working as hired guns back in the States, in the US television show of the same name. The font used in “THE FA TEAM” (below), like the font used in the show’s title card and credits, imitates military stencils.
There were 98 episodes of the action-series (WP), and it felt as though at least 97 of them involved the gang’s GMC Vandura van being turned into an armed vehicle and used in a spectacular, guns-blazing, escape from and/or assault on the bad guys, assisted by daredevil helicopter-flying by Howling Mad Murdock. Both vehicles have been modified in the Foreign Assassins (Fb) graffiti art shown here with spray cans that are firing their caps as missiles.
The art replaces Stranger Kings on the Comber Greenway in east Belfast.
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