Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)

Name: GODWIN, JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1846-48
Nature: New station replacing earlier one designed by Thomas Woodhouse. Opened 1848.
Refs: Perspective view in Linenhall Library, Belfast, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 26, no. 133(illus.); Brett, 32; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 165

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1862
Nature: Goods station to be extended.
Refs: DB 4, 1 Apr 1862, 85

Name: MILLS, WILLIAM HEMINGWAY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1892
Nature: New wagon repairing shops; to be timber built, 129 x 40ft with iron roof principals, partly covered with glass and corrugated iron.
Refs: IB 34, 1 Feb 1892, 31

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1897
Nature: New.
Refs: NA, OPW drawings collection (NI properties)

Name: MILLS, WILLIAM HEMINGWAY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1904
Nature: Tenders invited for extension of porter warehouse.
Refs: IB 46, 27 Feb 1904, 122

Name: MILLS, WILLIAM HEMINGWAY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1905
Nature: Auxiliary goods office.
Refs: IB 47, 20 May 1905, 350

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, RAILWAY STATION (GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1906
Nature: Proposed 'transformation', to include 'magnificent' hotel and centralisation 'of all the Belfast offices of this company', new platform for 'motor tram' traffic;  'a London architect' engaged in making ;extensive surveys.
Refs: Irish Times, 9 Feb 1906.