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Old city #boundary marker posts of #Belfast still exist hidden in plain sight... like this 1918 Ormeau one spied at night by @PatrickJMB Can we find them all? 🏢🧐
I sit at point of Royal Ave/North St aka 'Goose Lane' that bisected the first #BelfastCityWall, our oldest #boundary
First #Belfast #boundary post find - the one that moved from Ormeau Rd at Galwally Pk into someone's front garden!
Second #Belfast #boundary post find 👉 the #Ormeau Division / Ward Municipal & Parliamentary boundary... address TBC
3rd #Belfast Municipal & Parliamentary #boundary post find 👉 St Anne's Division / Ward, Willow Pond, Musgrave Park
4th #Belfast Municipal & Parliamentary #boundary post find 👉 Cromac Division / Windsor Ward at Balmoral, Lisburn Rd
5th #Belfast #boundary post find 👉 at Kennedy Centre, Falls / Andersonstown Rd (need close-up for wording details)
6th #Belfast 1918 Municipal & Parliamentary #boundary post find 👉 Falls Division / Falls Ward, Glen Road
Another shot of the 2nd #Belfast boundary post find 👉 Ormeau Division & Ward, Ormeau/Saintfield Rd near Galwally Pk
7th #Belfast #boundarypost find 👉 Lagan Towpath near bridge to Mooreland's meadow, Cromac Division / Cromac Ward
A wintry shot here of the 7th #Belfast 1918 Municipal & Parliamentary #boundarypost find on the River Lagan towpath
8th #Belfast 1918 Municipal & Parliamentary #boundarymarker post find 👉 Glencairn Rd, Woodvale Division & Ward
Bucolic shot here of 8th #Belfast 1918 #boundary marker post 👉 Glencairn Rd, Woodvale 🐄🌳 @GreatplaceB @NBelfasthour
9th #Belfast 1918 Municipal & Parliamentary #boundarymarker post find 👉 Ballysillan Rd, Shankill Ward & Division
Verdant shot of #Belfast 1918 Municipal & Parliamentary #boundarypost find No.3 in the undergrowth @MusgravePark
10th #Belfast #boundarypost marker find, beautiful rusting thru the paint 👉 Pottinger Division/Ward, Castlereagh Rd
Another shot of #Belfast #boundarypost marker find No.6 on the Glen Road, which has an accompanying ground plate!
Yet more snaps of #Belfast 1918 Municipal & Parliamentary #boundarypost find No.2 on the Ormeau Rd past Galwally Pk
11th #Belfast 1918 Municipal & Parliamentary #boundarypost find👉 Knockbreda Rd @ Mount Merrion Ave, Ormeau Division
12th #Belfast Municipal & Parliamentary #boundarypost find👉 McArt's Fort, #Cavehill! Duncairn Division/Clifton Ward
13th #Belfast 1918 #boundarypost find 👉 nestled secretively by the Loop River, Ladas Way, Ormeau Division / Ward 💕
Another shot of 7th #Belfast 1918 #boundarypost find on the Lagan Towpath, sporting considerably less lichen though
14th #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost find 👉 Massey Ave near Castlehill Rd, Victoria Ward
15th #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary&Municipal #boundarypost find👉 Belmont Rd nr Old Holywood Rd Victoria Division/Ward
Half eaten by a bridge! 16th #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary&Municipal #boundarypost find👉 Belmont Rd nr Tweskard Lodge
17th #Belfast #boundarypost find is a different sort!👉 1841 Water Boundary #bollard at Tates Ave Bridge off Fane St
18th #Belfast 1918 #boundarypost find is another curio 👉 the #Shankill Ward one that transplanted to #Portaferry!
19th #Belfast #boundarypost find @ Shaws Bridge is another outlier👉 Parliamentary Boundary of Borough of..? No date
20th #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost find, painted white 👉 Gilnahirk Rd by Knock River Bridge
21st #Belfast Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost find 👉 4th fairway of Shandon Pk Golf Course, Pottinger Ward
Up-to-date shot of 12th #Belfast 1918 Municipal & Parliamentary #boundarypost find at McArt's Fort #Cavehill Duncairn Division/Clifton Ward reveals it's had it's plaque stolen, smashed or removed for restoration (pic @AMarkRamsey)
22nd #Belfast #boundarypost find on the #Cavehill steps has the best view in the entire world, fact 🏢👌😊
Is this another pic of the 3rd #Belfast #boundarypost @MusgravePark or another one there, so the 23rd? (via @EBEUNI)
More shots of 10th #Belfast #boundarypost find on Castlereagh Rd. We've now found a few with old white paint intact
23rd #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost find 👉 Castlehill Rd near Netherleigh Pk, Victoria Ward
24th #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost find 👉 white paint losing the battle with rust at Upper Newtownards Rd, Pottinger Division & Ward, outside fellow B+ #listedbuilding the quirkily #modernist St Molua's
Another shot of #Belfast 1918 #boundarypost No 22 on the #Cavehill steps 👉 it'd be great to get a 360 video of this as the view of the city is tremendous! 🏢📷👍
Current front runner for best #Belfast #boundarypost vista is our 12th find near McArt's Fort #Cavehill (located close to our 22nd) 👉 a glimpse of the view of our capital it's had for 101 years! 🎉
25th #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost find 👉 Cherryvalley, Pottinger Ward / Division, white paint still looking quite fine 🧐
25th above was in fact another shot of No.20! But here sitting pretty is our real 25th #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost find 👉 110 Kings Rd, Pottinger Ward / Division
One of our #EastBelfast posse is on a roll..! 26th #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost find 👉 quietly standing watch at Gilnahirk Road at the filling station
27th #Belfast 1918 #boundarypost find 👉 Kensington Rd at Gilnahirk Rd junction, Pottinger Ward. White paint intact
Look what we're discovering! Seems the remaining #Belfast 1918 #boundaryposts are listed monuments, and deservedly so. Sad some are lost but apart from that happy days 🏢😊💞💪
28th #Belfast #boundarypost find 👉 tucked away beside some bins at Slievegoland Pk/Antrim Rd junction. With different wording this must be part of a different set we're also uncovering! (See No 19 by @Kor1748 for similar) Wonder what year they're from..?
I case you don't believe me about the bins, here's the longer view of our 28th #Belfast find from Streetview ~ always better to get a #boundarypost detective's quality shot of course! 🏢🧐
Lichen-tastic close up of our 7th #Belfast #boundarypost find 👉 Lagan Towpath near the bridge to Mooreland's meadow (not the No. 19 Shaws Bridge one as initially thought)
Loving the #Belfast #boundarypost posse research being conducted 🤓 a good news story with relevant nuggets here by none other than @LindaFStewart has been cited 👉
Our 29th & 30th #Belfast 1918 #boundaryposts finds 👉 Antrim Rd near @BelfastZoo @NBelfasthour lifetime companions 💗
People keep spotting our 3rd #Belfast Municipal & Parliamentary #boundarypost find, despite the camouflage :) 👉 @MusgravePark Willow Pond
Handsome photo of #Belfast 1918 Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost No 25 on Cherryvalley by Glinahirk Rd 😘 Is it Knock River it's next to? 🌊🧐
#Belfast 1918 Parliamentary & Municipal #boundarypost No 25 on Cherryvalley by Glinahirk Rd is building quite a following... soon all the urban explorers will be flocking there 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🥰
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