Dieselben Orte in Belfast, etwa 100–120 Jahre voneinander entfernt
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1o8bph5
Von JourneyThiefer
Dieselben Orte in Belfast, etwa 100–120 Jahre voneinander entfernt
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1o8bph5
Von JourneyThiefer
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Shameful
Looks like they also had a tram network that got lost at some point?
Creativity and beauty has died over the ages
Was Belfast destroyed in the war or something?
This is fascinating! So much loss from the war. I wonder if there’s something similar for Dublin too
Remember the aim was to physically and politically divide communities. Bulldoze a motorway around the city centre to isolate and contain West Belfast, build 25 foot high walls and steel-and-concrete security barriers to manage population movement.
Israel watched and learned.
Looked better then
Black and white has a nice way of hiding how bad things really were. Road in last picture is likely covered in shit.
As a Belfast one…just legitimately upsetting.
Some of the city was lost to the blitz and the troubles. But the city didn’t really help itself,. Just walk down north street, a key historic city centre area that’s been in a slow downturn for probably half a century, with every decent building spontaneously bursting into flames, or awaiting some magically developer to come in and just fix it all.
It’s a shame, I feel grateful that the Belfast I get to grow up it is far better than what my parents had to endure, but when you go abroad, (hell, even just over to Liverpool) it feels like Belfast could still be so much more.
Criminal
It’s shocking what architecture was destroyed and that much of it was by design is unreal to me, much of Dublin’s Victorian buildings were protected, it’s mad to me that a unionist city(at that time ) put less value on it’s history.
Jesus, even a huge spired church is gone. Luftwaffe, paramilitaries & your city council really fucked your built landscape..