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| Albion Place ca 1900 (Image: A R Hogg/NMNI) |
Numbers 16-42 Bradbury Place, Belfast, formerly Albion Place, a terrace of three-storey, early Victorian houses, were built between 1832-48.
The first houses to be constructed had triangular pediments above the first-floor windows; with moulded surrounds at second-floor level.
One of which boasted a balustraded parapet and fluted urns.
The front gardens were all built over with single-storey shops about 1900.
The balustraded building to the left has been absorbed into Lavery's bar.
A section of the terrace was demolished in 1866 to make way for the railway line, leaving the site vacant.
The original developer of the site, Martin Wallace, was living in Albion Place in 1880.
Marcus Patton, OBE, in his Central Belfast: A Historical Gazetteer, remarks that
"the southern end and the mid-terrace house at nos. 24-26 were demolished in 1990, which has effectively terminated the life of the terrace as a whole."
"It is a great shame that the terrace was not developed from the rear, as separate access existed to the two-storey mews houses behind from Albion Lane."
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| 30-44 Bradbury Place, 2022 (Timothy Ferres) |
Numbers 30-44 in the terrace were all demolished in 2021, in preparation for another block of student accommodation.
First published in June, 2022.
What an interesting photograph of the Terrace. The gentleman standing in the doorway, the lady peeking from the bedroom window, the lounging youth and the row of jackets hung on the railing. Lovely to see what these now gone houses were like when they were cared for and loved. The slate roofs, original railings, neat front gardens and lace curtains were so charming. Their loss is yet another sad planning failure.
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