Great Victoria Street, Belfast
Great Victoria Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a major thoroughfare located in the city centre and is one of the important streets used by pedestrians alighting from Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station and walking into to shopping streets such as Royal Avenue.
The street connects with the Donegall Road and the Lisburn Road which are also linked into Shaftesbury Square in the southern direction and towards the Donegall Square in the northern direction, which links via Howard Street into Royal Avenue.
The street has the Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker, which is in a prominent walking route into Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station. There are also a number of churches located along the street which was named after Queen Victoria.
The station which is a terminal building, probably designed by Ulster Railway engineer John Godwin, was completed in 1848.[1]
Notable addresses
- Grand Opera House, Belfast
- Crown Liquor Saloon
- Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station
- Europa Hotel, Belfast
- Blackstaff House, BBC Northern Ireland
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