Historic Cities
Walk Belfast in 1800
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Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
The Linen Town, Belfast, 1800
Belfast in 1800 is a compact Georgian port maturing into an Atlantic linen-export town, its streets ordered in brick and stucco around a lone White Linen Hall and the busy curve of the Lagan. The walk traces river quays, ropewalks and bleach greens where webs of linen are prepared and shipped, with Cave Hill’s basalt ridge keeping watch above the town.
35 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Belfast as it stood in 1800 (“History of Belfast”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Belfast from the Lough
- 2. Harbour Quays
- ↳ Bonded Warehouse Interior · interior
- 3. Long Bridge
- ↳ Toll-house Office · interior
- 4. Bridge Street
- 5. High Street
- 6. Castle Place
- 7. Chapel of the Ford
- 8. White Linen Hall
- ↳ Main Trading Floor · interior
- ↳ Merchants' Gallery · interior
- 9. Corn Market
- ↳ Market Exchange Room · interior
- 10. Assembly Rooms
- ↳ Assembly Ballroom · interior
- 11. Donegall Place
- 12. Drapers' Warehouse Quay
- ↳ Stacked Webs Warehouse · interior
- ↳ Warehouse Counting House · interior
- 13. Merchants' Quay
- ↳ Merchant's Parlour · interior
- 14. Ropewalks by the Lagan
- ↳ Ropewalk Workshop · interior
- 15. Bleach Greens
- ↳ Bleacher's Drying Loft · interior
- 16. Carrickfergus Road
- 17. Sandy Row
- 18. Smithfield Cross
- 19. Ann Street
- 20. Custom House Quay
- ↳ Customs Office Room · interior
- 21. River Shipyards
- ↳ Shipwright's Mould Loft · interior
- 22. Cave Hill