16/5/1941 22/9/1943 The centre of Chichester’s estate, however, was the much longer established Carrickfergus, and that is where he initially took up residence. A royal charter, issued in the name of James I, transformed what had been a collection of dwellings by a river crossing into a legal entity governed by a corporation of 13 men, headed by a sovereign. At the time the change was not seen as particularly significant. The MV Schiedyk lies an estimated 400 feet under water off the western coast of Vancouver in Canada. 11/10/1946 31/5/1933 In 2014, she and her team built DECK an independent creative container art space for photography. Belfast City Hall. For much of this period its inhabitants continued to see themselves as residents of an Irish city. Something was owed to the design skills of Edward Harland, and to the close personal links with major shipping lines developed by Gustav Wolff and by a later director, William Pirrie. Later, in response to the rise in other provinces of an increasingly aggressive Catholic nationalism, this sense of an Irish identity became more problematic. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Victoria Square, Belfast, with Cantrell & Cochrane delivery lorry. Belfast 15/9/1942 Belfast Telegraph Collection/NMNI, Belfast Castle. An archive in Belfast is being used in an operation to clear an oil leak from a shipwreck half way across the world. 1932, Belfast : High Street, looking down at the Albert Clock. 11/3/1960 29/1/1948, The Countess Granville, wife of the Ulster Governor and sister of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, cutting ribbon to open childrens play centre at Bessbrook. Belfast’s history as a modern town begins on 27 April 1613. Under construction in 1906 Belfast will play host to a prestigious European technology conference for the next three years, with MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Europe to be held there. Factory based industry now spread rapidly, with migrants flocking from the countryside in search of employment. 27/4/1943 BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Old clothes market, Smithfield, Belfast. 5/1/1943 Belfast Telegraph Collection/NMNI Belfast Castle. 19/3/1948, Royal Avenue, Belfast, from Castle Place looking towards North Street (from first floor level.) Belfast Telegraph Collection/NMNI, Anne St. and Arthur Square, Belfast. City Centre. Donegall Square. 15/9/1945, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, visit to Northern Ireland 1945. The reason why Belfast blossomed in this unexpected way lay in its geographical position. 3/3/1939. railway terminus at Belfast 16/12/1937 2/9/1943 BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Building of the Sydenham by-pass, a workman using a frog hammer. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, from the Grosvenor Road. She started her career at Kehrer in 2003, where she is responsible for selecting and acquiring new photography related projects.https://www.kehrerverlag.com/, Co-Ordinator (Uganda Press Photo Award, Kampala, Uganda), Stella Nantongo is the Programme and Project Co-ordinator at the Uganda Press Photo Award, an annual photography platform and competition for East Africa. Oysters filter seawater and their shells provide a habitat for many other sea creatures. 1932, Belfast : High Street, looking down at the Albert Clock. Over the next few decades the. At a time when the existing shipbuilding centres on the Mersey and Clyde were becoming increasingly congested, Belfast offered a new site, with excellent port facilities and a short sea crossing that facilitated the easy circulation of raw materials and technical expertise. BBC's Radio entertainer, Mr Gillie Potter, pictured here in Belfast. Linen Industry:Wet Spinning, York Street Mill. BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE, The interior of Belfast City Hall. 17/3/1954, Belfast. The new charter, in fact, was one of forty issued at around this time, partly to promote the economic development of Ireland by extending its urban network and partly, since the new towns each sent two members to the Irish parliament, to ensure a safe government majority in the forthcoming parliamentary session. By 1800, the population of the town had risen to around 20,000. At this stage Belfast was still a relatively small centre. BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE, The Albert Bridge. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Painting of Andrew Mulholland, founder of York Street Flax Spinning Company 4/4/1945 Initially the fabric produced was cotton, where Irish firms faced stiff competition from Scottish and English producers. Harland and Wolff also benefited from entering shipbuilding late, and hence with the latest technology. Regular Juror worldwide inc Dutch Doc; POPCAP; World Press Photo, Prisma Award; Greenpeace Photo Award; New York Times Portfolio Review. Air raid shelters in City Hall grounds. Belfast Lough. establishment of the shipbuilding firms of Harland and Wolff in 1858 and Workman, Clark and Company in 1880 laid the foundations for the second great pillar of the town’s prosperity. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, G.N.R. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, visit to Northern Ireland 1945. Belfast 3/11/1942 BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE, The interior of Belfast City Hall. Top of photo cut of by the censor. Factory. 18/8/1939 Female customers having their hair styled. Working together with our local community, we made the goal to raise $20,000 by December 1, 2016. 14/4/1933 7/5/1940, On a visit to the Gasworks an employee demonstrates the Coal Gripper (The feed system of a coal getting combine, which works with a face conveyor, comprises: a traction device located on the combine and having a cylinder-shaped sprocket on the side surface of which a circular spherical-shaped recess is provided, slots being made on both inner sides of the spherical recess, said slots having an involute-spherical surface) 20/1/1938, Saw repair shop, McMasters, Church Lane. 5/1/1943 Gwen Lee is the Director and co-founder of the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) inaugurated in 2008. 26/11/1941, The stitching room of the Belfast Collar Company the Duke Of Gloucester to Albion Ltd Clothing maufacturers Belfast,29th May 1934, Manhattan Beauty Salon, Corn Market. Belfast. York St factory. 13/5/1949 Singapore born, New York based.https://time.com/, Senior Photo Editor (The New Yorker, New York, U.S.A), Currently Senior Photo Editor at The New Yorker, Elizabeth oversees the production behind the publication’s striking imagery, having previously been Senior Photo Editor at VICE. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church, Clifton St. Belfast. BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE, Belfast Custom House, Custom House Square, Belfast. James Magennis:Ulsterman awarded The Victoria Cross (VC). 22/10/1947, Rabbi Jacob Shachter, Rabbi Belfast, Rabbi Dr I. Herzog, Chief Rabbi elect of the Holy Land, and Mr J Hurwitz at Belfast railway station. BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE, Donegall Square North and East. Belfast 23/1/1946 Meanwhile the town’s exports continued to rise, with the boom in transatlantic trade. and Mr. T.J. Rushton FRIBA a partner of Sir Charles Nicholson, cathedral architect with the Dean of Belfast, Very Reverend R.C.H.Elliot. The interior of Belfast City Hall. The fascination of Belfast lies precisely in its dual character — as a British industrial city located on the island of Ireland, and as an Irish city that played a significant part in the process by which the United Kingdom became for a time the workshop of the world. 19/2/1948, Lady Carson, widow of Lord Carson of Duncairn, and Lady Brooke, at Stormont House. 27/4/1934, Linen Industry:Plain Weaving Shop, Brookfield Factory. 2/9/1943 BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE, The opening of the Royal Courts of Justice, Oxford Street, Belfast. Belfast. Belfast 20/2/1939 14.9.1945. Aerial Photograph. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Chichester St. from Victoria St. junction. Irish Newspaper Archives offers access to over 300 years of Irish history through millions of Irish Newspaper pages. February 1937 25/10/1939 19/5/1936, Crowds in Donegall Place for Student's Day, from the top of the City Hall. Additionally she has worked as an editor and producer on projects for a variety of artists and institutions, including the Victoria & Albert Museum and NGO WaterAid.https://www.magnumphotos.com/, Director (Singapore International Photo Festival / DECK, Singapore). and Cornmarket. 7/10/1942 In addition the Lagan Valley provided a natural corridor stretching into a fertile agricultural region which also, from the late 17th Century, became a centre of linen spinning and weaving. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Bedford St. Belfast. In the foreground is a motorcycle and sidecar and a jeep. A curator and photographer herself, she has also shot for the New Yorker, TIME and Instagram.https://www.newyorker.com/, Managing Editor (British Journal of Photography, London, U.K.), Izabela Radwanska Zhang is Managing Editor of print and online at British Journal of Photography and 1854 Media, having worked there since 2016. Menu BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE, Belfast City Hall. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMN, Donegall Square North from the roof of the City Hall. Davis & Co. automobile engineers, Cantrell & Cochrane factory. Belfast. Belfast. Winners, finalists and entrants have been featured in major publications such as, The Guardian, TIME Lightbox, Foam, The Financial Times, British Journal of Photography, The Telegraph, among many other national and international outlets. 5/1/1934 3/2/1939 The linen on which much of its prosperity depended was spun and woven in households across rural Ulster, before being collected at fairs and markets for export through Belfast. 19/11/1945, Weaving and winding training school at Ewart's factory. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Donegall Square East, with air raid shelters, from the roof of the Robinson & Cleaver building, Belfast. News People Ryanair announce eight new routes to hotspots for summer 2021 from Belfast City Airport Eight new routes have been announced by Ryanair from Belfast City Airport for … But why was Londonderry chosen? Belfast. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Shaftesbury Square looking towards Gt. Belfast Telegraph Collection/NMNI, Outside St. Anne's Cathedral Mr. W.D. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Shipyard workers watching the launch of the "Canberra". The population in 1757 was about 8,500. The land on which the new borough stood was part of a large estate just granted to Sir Arthur Chichester, in return for his services in the recent conquest of Gaelic Ulster. Gas bracket lamp. Sign for "Lavery's". 18/9/1947 BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Spectators gather to view the Albert Bridge after the collapse of the central arches in 1886, Belfast City Hall. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, The Palm House in Botanic Gardens, Belfast. 2/9/1943 Donegall Square. It sank in January 1968 after hitting an underwater ledge. 3/5/1935, A block of derelict houses in Divis Street, Belfast, ready for demolishing. 26/3/1942 3/5/1946 Belfast. Each year our Open Submission award-winners receive vast international press coverage from publications and media outlets around the world. Donegall Square. She joined the V&A in 2007 after two years in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.https://www.vam.ac.uk, Dilys commissions, directs and produces visuals. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Lisburn Road, at Malone Avenue, Belfast. Log in, The Belfast Telegraph is a member of IPSO and subscribes to its Editors' Code of Practice Nationalists, on the other hand, continued to insist that Belfast was just another Irish city, oblivious to how little their vision of a rural Ireland cut off from the rest of the world by economic and cultural protectionism had to offer to a city whose past and future were so bound up with the international economy. Creator of Art Base Africa, a virtual space for contemporary African Art. Linen, Damask weaving shot. 5/1/1937 Belfast Harbour, The Quay's at the turn of the twentieth century. Belfast 10/9/1928 3/5/1946 She was the co-founder and managing director of 2902 Gallery in Singapore between 2008 – 2013, which was instrumental in showcasing contemporary Southeast Asian photography in Singapore and at international art fairs. York St. 1951 Eighteenth-century Belfast was still primarily a port and commercial centre. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Victoria Square, Belfast, from Victoria Street. 12/11/1942 17/8/1929 BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE, City Hall from Wellington Place, Belfast. Brookfield factory. Photograph: David Smyth. BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE/NMNI, Stormont.Belfast. BELFAST TELEGRAPH COLLECTION/NMNI, Looking along the Ormeau Road to the gasworks from Short & Harlands recreation club. BELFAST TELEGRAPH ARCHIVE, Belfast City Hall. This kind of press exposure can lead to viral, global recognition of your work. From the 1760s, however, the first marquis of Donegall, now head of the Chichester family and still the sole owner of the land on which the town stood, promoted a major programme of rebuilding, extending the town centre by the construction of North Street, Donegall Street, Castle Place and Donegall Place. 24/6/1947, Sir Arnold McNair, Judge of the Court of International Justice at the Hague, with Lady McNair and Professor J. L. Montrose. Linen Industry:View of Weaving Room, York Street Factory. 3/1/1941 On a regular basis, she gives talks on professional development for photographers, and participates as a jury and portfolio reviewer in Asia and Europe.