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Belfast City Council
Interpretative Exhibitions

Dockers’ & Carters’ Strike, 1907 Exhibition

In 1907, Belfast City Hall had just opened at a cost of £360,000, equivalent to about £21 million of today’s money. The city also claimed the world’s largest linen mill and the largest ropeworks, and Harland & Wolff was the world’s largest shipbuilder. 2007 marked the anniversary of the Dockers’ and Carters’ strike in Belfast, arguably the most significant event in the history of the trade union movement in Northern Ireland, where a massive march took place from east to west Belfast organised by Belfast Trades Council.

Belfast Through Cartography Exhibition

During the 19th century Belfast changed from a semi-rural town to a city, with a population of 53,000 in 1831 to 386,047 in 1911, and its area grew from about 1 square mile to 23 square miles.
At the same time, how Belfast was seen and recorded was also altered – in 1824 the first comprehensive, accurately surveyed, large mapping project in the world started to record Ireland at a scale of six inches to the mile, while in 1839 Ireland’s first photograph was taken in Belfast, changing forever the way artists would represent the world around them.