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Sailortown Tours is a unique walking experience through the historical City of Belfast to the lost Dockers Community of Sailortown.
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Enjoy a leisurely stroll around unique parts of this great City.

07/05/2021

In person Walking Tour from Belfast to Sailortown are now available and can be booked through the Airbnb Experiences portal. Why not come along and enjoy a leisurely, informal and informative guided tour.

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/experiences/327146

Belfast - This tour takes 2 hours and covers just over 2kms. You will spend the first hour walking through Belfast's oldest streets as you head into the lost Dockers community of Sailortown, telling you about how it emerged and why it disappeared. During these 2 hours I will share an alternative sid...

29/04/2021

Here's a fabulous short film digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI).

Part of a series that looks at the lesser-known parts of Northern Ireland, this episode looks at the life of Belfast's docks in Sailorstown, a once vital area disrupted by the construction of a road that ran right through it. Development in this area disrupted not only the life of the community who lived and wokred there, but also the environmental balance of the area. The history of Sailortown is the history of industry in Belfast, and its decline is a sad indication of the short-sighted nature of much city planning. Thankfully, local community groups have been working to restore life to the area, and St Joseph's Church was reopened in May 2018. A particular delight of this programme is the footage of the blessing of the pets, at around 21.30.

https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/once-upon-a-place-sailorstown-2226?fbclid=IwAR2V09TOpMvNCYZ0gSPmzECBmF4RzYhp6ry-ol8x6Vmbqu7qjCJwkBslQOg

Over 117 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2014, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.

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Whitestar Moments

Here's some great vintage footage of the Belfast Docks from 1924. You can purchase the full DVD from Whitestar Moments.

Myths of Belfast: The Decline of Sailortown

Here's a great video shot by Andrew Molloy of former Sailortown residents telling us something of the history of the area. Andrew also has a blog which tells us more of this once thriving area of Belfast, which you can find here: https://passoverinsilence.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Sailortown

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