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<![CDATA[Digital Exhibitions at Special Collections & Archives, Queen's University Belfast]]>https://omeka.qub.ac.uk/items/browse?tags=city&output=rss2Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:30:35 +0000j.shongo@qub.ac.uk (Digital Exhibitions at Special Collections & Archives, Queen's University Belfast)Zend_Feedhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss<![CDATA[The Emerging City]]>https://omeka.qub.ac.uk/items/show/148

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Title

The Emerging City

Subject

Surviving the city

Description

Belfast experienced phenomenal growth during the nineteenth century, increasing from a town of 30,000 inhabitants to become a city of 350,000.

Much of this growth came about as a result of people migrating into Belfast in search of employment in its rapidly-expanding industries. By the beginning of the twentieth century, over 100,000 people were employed in manufacturing in Belfast. Unusually, over 40% of these were women who found work in the huge linen mills that had sprung up in the north and west of the city.

The face of Belfast changed dramatically, with improvements to the major streets, the building of fine warehouses and department stores and the opening of parks and public baths. In 1888 Belfast was granted city status in and in 1906 the growing civic pride was expressed in the building of a new City Hall in Donegall Square.

Despite this industrial and urban growth, the country was never far away. The 1901 census showed that most of Belfast’s adult population had been born in rural Ulster, and contemporary photos show that rural ways were still very much in evidence.

Source

Photograph of Christian Place, Belfast, 1912 by Alexander Hogg. [PRONI LA/7/8/HF/3]

Household Return for the McPhillips family of Christian Place, Belfast from the 1911 Census of Ireland. [www.cenus.nationalarchives.ie]

Photograph of High Street, Belfast, by Robert Welch, c1910. [PRONI T1898/7]

Date

1910-01-01
1912-01-01

Rights

Reproduction of these materials in any format for any purpose other than personal research and study may constitute a violation of CDPA 1988 and infringement of rights associated with the materials. Queen’s University Belfast does not own copyright in this material. Please contact us for permissions information at specialcollections@qub.ac.uk

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jpeg

Language

English

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Photo, paper
christian place 1912.jpg
Household return for the McPhillips family..jpg
High Street, 1910.png
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<![CDATA[Growing Pains]]>https://omeka.qub.ac.uk/items/show/135

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Title

Growing Pains

Subject

Surviving the city

Description

Belfast’s economic success and growth was not without its price. The city experienced increased problems of overcrowding, housing, sanitation and public health. While the existing housing stock was of good quality, it was seriously inadequate for the growing population.

Many families crammed into small houses in narrow and unsanitary courts and alleys around the old part of the town. As the century progressed, unregulated areas of poor housing sprang up to the north and west of the town and east of the river in Ballymacarrett. Many of these areas lacked running water or sewerage, the uncovered River Blackstaff which flowed through the town centre into Belfast Lough serving as the only substitute.

It was also a very young city, with large numbers of young single and married people moving into it and birth rates remaining very high. The care and control of the thousands of children who moved between work and school, or who remained unattended while both parents worked long hours, presented a major problem for the city’s welfare and municipal authorities.

These challenges raised the questions of who would pay for civic improvements and for the upkeep of the poor. Improvements in the infrastructure could only come through an increase in rates- and nobody wanted that!

Source

Photograph of Crozier’s Row, Belfast, 1911 by Alexander Hogg. [PRONI LA/7/8/HF/3]
Cartoon attacking the City of Belfast Christian Civic Union, 1906, [PRONI D2086/AA/1]
Photograph of flooding at Donegall Place, Belfast, 1902. [PRONI D3670/C/1]

Date

1902-01-01
1911-01-01

Rights

Reproduction of these materials in any format for any purpose other than personal research and study may constitute a violation of CDPA 1988 and infringement of rights associated with the materials. Queen’s University Belfast does not own copyright in this material. Please contact us for permissions information at specialcollections@qub.ac.uk

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jpeg

Language

English

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Photo, cartoon
Crozier's place.jpg
cartoon.jpg
donegall place.jpg
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