Former bank, Lisburn Road, Belfast © Albert Bridge cc-by-sa/2.0 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland

2007

J3372 : Former bank, Lisburn Road, Belfast

taken 19 years ago, near to Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

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Former bank, Lisburn Road, Belfast

Former bank, Lisburn Road, Belfast

This former branch of the Northern Bank was (as I remember) built in the early 70’s. Disused for some time it has become an out-of-place eyesore in what is, generally, quite an attractive, busy and fashionable area. Fortunately it seems to have been sold for offices (and not apartments). Ulsterville Avenue is on the left. Continue to J3372 : Former bank, Lisburn Road, Belfast (2).

J3372 : New apartments, Lisburn Road, Belfast (19) shows the replacement building in its final form.

117 Lisburn Road, Belfast redevelopment

Although originally intended as an office building, the former bank site is being redeveloped as “managed student accommodation consisting of 38NR one bedroom apartments”.

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Category: Building (disused) Belfast Lisburn Road (Belfast) Bank (Former) Building (Derelict) Development Site Then and Now Click a tag, to view other nearby images.

This photo is linked from: Articles: · Vanished, demolished and disappeared Belfast Groupings: · Same view different time (& same view same day) · Same view different time (& same view same day) Automatic Clusters: · Road [407] · Building [260] · Avenue [178] Other Photos: · Former bank, Lisburn Road, Belfast (2) · New apartments, Lisburn Road, Belfast (18) · New apartments, Lisburn Road, Belfast (19) ·

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Grid Square: J3372, 1239 images (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer: Albert Bridge (more nearby)
Date Taken: Friday, 27 July, 2007 (more nearby)
Submitted: Friday, 27 July, 2007
Subject Location: Irish: J 330 726 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:35.0861N 5:56.5294W
Camera Location: Irish: J 331 726
View Direction: North-northwest (about 337 degrees)

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Discussion on J3372

See J3372 : Old sculpture, Queen's University, Belfast . The following is a quotation from the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s website:

”In 1976 Queen’s unveiled a new piece of kinetic sculpture built by staff and students from the School of Mechanical Engineering and located near the Botanic Avenue entrance to Belfast’s Botanic Gardens. It became a well-loved landmark even after its moving parts had seized and rusted and great sadness marked its eventual removal in 2005 to make way for the Sir Anthony Reilly Library.

Industry, as the piece was known, was the largest work and only piece of public sculpture by its designer, Barry Orr (1930-2000). Born in Eglantine Avenue, Belfast, he attended Methodist College and worked in the textile industry and as an entertainment booker for the Talk of the Town nightclub in Belfast. He eventually became Press Officer for UTV and then Enterprise Ulster. Although his work is included in many public and private collections, Orr never considered himself to be an artist, describing his kinetic pieces as ?mechanical doodles?. He was inspired to make the first of these when he discovered that his teething child was soothed by the sound of dried peas in a tin and rather than continue to shake it manually, he built a machine to do it for him.

Orbs work is part of the art historical tradition of improbable machines and has an obvious affinity with the famous drawings of William Heath Robinson (1872 ?1944) the English illustrator, whose name has entered the language as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contraption. Heath Robinsons machines existed on paper and functioned only in the imagination. A more direct influence and a personal hero, was Frederick Roland Emett (1906-1990), another English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture, amongst whose most famous works were Nellie, the steam locomotive constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain and one of its most popular attractions, and Professor Potts? elaborate time-saving domestic devices for the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

When it was dismantled, Industry was discovered to be beyond repair, and after discussion with Barry Orbs family it was decided not to remake the work but to hold an exhibition celebrating the artist’s work and to commission a new site specific work in the spirit of recycling and re-imagination.”

Posted by Saxon on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 (0 comments)

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