A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim . atoken of love for his mother, Helen, Lady and Browning, Haughton and Kipling, have,in immortal verse, made the tower for ever , a pleasant sea-side village of some 4,000inhabitants, four miles from Belfast, on the road to Bangor,was also an ancient ecclesiastical seat of importance. History ana Progress. I! In 1613 the lough extended into what is now the heartof the city. Various extensions of theland have taken place from time to time,and where once the lonely heron wadedundisturbed in the shallows of
A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim . atoken of love for his mother, Helen, Lady and Browning, Haughton and Kipling, have,in immortal verse, made the tower for ever , a pleasant sea-side village of some 4,000inhabitants, four miles from Belfast, on the road to Bangor,was also an ancient ecclesiastical seat of importance. History ana Progress. I! In 1613 the lough extended into what is now the heartof the city. Various extensions of theland have taken place from time to time,and where once the lonely heron wadedundisturbed in the shallows of the lough,the harbour workshave extended formiles into the sea,and the ceaseless dinand hammering ofthe iron shipbuildingyards and engineer-ing works fill the of acresof land have beenreclaimed from the lough on either side of the river, onwhich extensive ranges of warehouses and docks for theaccommodation of foreign shipping have been constructed,and for the carrying on of the iron and steel shipbuilding,for which Belfast is now
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