WeewalksBelfast

17/11/2024

16/11/2024

Great way to spend your Christmas money - I just can’t decide which one to go on!

We all know that period between Boxing Day and New Year's Eve can be a bit weird.
You've had your Christmas dinner, you've opened your presents, you've seen the family; but now what to do with yourself until the next big night out?
This is where we come in!
For 2024, we are offering THREE full-day coach tours departing from Belfast over that long weekend from 27th to 29th December.
On Friday 27th December, we return to the days of the body snatchers with our ever-popular 'Body Bus'.
Then, on Saturday 28th December, we go back another century or two, on our new tour of witchcraft history, 'The Witches' Way'.
Finally, on Sunday 29th December, it's true crime all the way with 'The Murder Miles' - eight hours of serial killers, unsolved crimes and victims' stories.
All tours are open for booking now. As always, there are no booking fees and we have a concessionary rate for seniors, benefit claimants, people with disabilities, students and children under 14 (parental discretion strongly advised).
We look forward to hell-coming you on board!
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/alternativeulstours

16/11/2024

Belfast blitz: Manufacturing parachute travelling bags at Ewarts Ltd., Bedford Street. A female worker shows the finished bag. 9/12/1943

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14/11/2024

What you make of this extremely rare photograph? Sorting Office, General Post Office Royal Avenue (GPO), Belfast. Dated Early 1940’s. Absolutely fantastic ain’t it?

14/11/2024

14/11/2024

I love going out on other walking tours and I highly recommend this excellent Anti Slavery Belfast Tour this morning with Dr Tom's Tours as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival. If you get a chance it’s on again next Thursday at 11am

13/11/2024

❓Did you Know❓

That some of the Poorhouse girls were taught French so that they could get a higher paid job as a governess or a high-ranking ladies’ maid!

Learning different languages was generally taught to girls from a middle or upper class background which highlights how Mary Ann and the Ladies' Committee were progressive in their views of female education as well as great promoters of it in the Belfast Poorhouse.



Image used with kind permission from Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra

13/11/2024

Another statue of Mary Anne McCracken

12/11/2024

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Reports of a strange “cometary apparition”, as seen in the skies above East Belfast, was recorded in the Belfast Telegraph 100 years ago ☄️

12/11/2024

This one also looks great! So many great walking tours including mine

Conradh na Gaeilge are hosting a bilingual event on the Placenames of the Black Mountain. If you're interested in attending email [email protected]

📆 Friday 29th November
🕧 12.30pm
📍 Glór na Móna