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Location Information:
Belfast City Hall is the civic
building of the Belfast City
Council. Located in Donegall Square,
Belfast, Northern Ireland, it faces
north and effectively divides the
commercial and business areas of the
city centre.
The
gardens surrounding the City Hall
are a popular with office workers
taking their lunch in the summer
months, as well as tourists and
teenagers gathering in their dozens
to enjoy the green.
Various statues stand in the
grounds, including one of Queen
Victoria by Sir Thomas Brock. There
is also a granite column dedicated
to the American Expeditionary Force,
many of whom were based in Belfast
prior to D-Day.
Brock
also designed the marble figure of
Thane, the Titanic Memorial, in
memorial to the victims of the
sinking of the RMS Titanic. The ship
was built in Harland and Wolff's
shipyard located in the east of the
city. The monument was originally
located at the front gate of City
Hall, at the junction of Donegall
Square North and Donegall Place.
There
is a memorial to Sir Edward Harland,
the former head of the Harland and
Wolff shipyard and Mayor of Belfast
from 1885 to 1886. It too was
sculpted by Thomas Brock. The
grounds also house Northern
Ireland's main war memorial, The
Garden of Remembrance and Cenotaph,
at which wreathes are laid on
Remembrance Day.
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