Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, BALMORAL SHOW GROUNDS, KING'S HALL

Name: LEITCH, ARCHIBALD, & PARTNERS #
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, BALMORAL SHOW GROUNDS, KING'S HALL
Date: 1933-34
Nature: New exhibition hall, capable of seating 8,000, for Royal Ulster Agricultural Society. Reinforced concrete. Span 152 ft, length 300 ft.  First sod cut by Duke of Abercorn, 15 May 1933. 1933. Opened by Duke of Gloucester, 29 May 1934. Builder: J. & R. Thompson, Baden St, Belfast. Clerk of Works: A. Strathdee.
Refs: Irish Times, 25 Feb, 16 May 1933;   IB 75, 11 Mar,20 May,1 Jul,16 Dec 1933, 202(illus.),412,566,1085; 76, 19 May,2,16 Jun 1934, 417,454(illus.),517; Irish Architect & Builder1 (April 1934), 10-11(illus.); Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 84(illus.),86-87.

Name: NEILL, JOHN MCBRIDE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, BALMORAL SHOW GROUNDS, KING'S HALL
Date: 1939
Nature: Ice rink.
Refs: IB 81, 8 Jul 1939, 574; Paul Larmour, 'The Big Feature', Perspective Vol. 5, No. 4 (Mar-Apr 1997), 34