Backstreets of Belfast

One of the members of our research team, Dr Olwen Purdue, can be heard providing historical narration to a slideshow of photographs that depict the backstreets of Belfast a century ago. The images, taken by photographer Alex Hogg around 1913, can now be found in the National Museums Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council and Linen Hall Library. These photographs, as Olwen notes, were most likely never seen by the people captured in the images themselves but for those of us living in 21st century Belfast, they provide a rare look in the rear-view mirror. They have been collated into a slideshow produced by the BBC and you can see and listen here.

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