Broadsides – A collection of bits and pieces
"Unprovided with original learning, uninformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog”
For some reason that I am unable to decipher, Tripadvisor has not listed this review. It maybe the rude words engraved on the mirror! This was a most fabulous and completely bonkers hotel. The reception bell was a large eight legged silver gilt rather menacing crab; there was a huge black octopus hanging in front... Continue Reading →
The painting, recently commissioned, is the artists interpretation of the photograph beneath the painting, taken on the Shankill Road in 1970 and referred to in the story at http://wp.me/p259Gc-1i
Unity Flats was the rather ironic name given to a brutal 60’s style complex of catholic apartments, planted, more in hope than expectation, at a junction close to the Protestant Shankill Road. By the late 60’s when the Catholic civil liberties agenda had erupted into inter-community violence, it was quite possibly one of the most... Continue Reading →
Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces 