Tuesday 26 February 2008

Victoria Square: Belfast's Commercial Crown Jewel


It finally opens with a "spectacular launch party" on Thursday, 6th March. It has taken six years and the manpower of six thousand people to construct. It is Victoria Square.

This building is colossal, by local standards at least. It takes up a substantial part of Chichester Street and runs right back to what used to be Victoria Square. In 1911, this was an attractive red-brick veterinary surgery on Chichester Street, with cobbled yard and stabling; it's changed unrecognizably since then.

If you turn up at 10am on Thursday, 6th March, you'll be entertained by the Ulster Orchestra, acrobats and others.

I may well be tempted to go and see what all the fuss is about...

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