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Credit unions were introduced to Ireland in 1958. Pioneers introducing the mutual self-help philosophy in credit unions couldn’t have foreseen that today there are nearly 400 active credit unions in the Republic of Ireland. Over 2.9 million people in Ireland are a member of a credit union in Ireland and, collectively, have close on €11.9 billion in savings. More than 3,500 people are employed by credit unions in Ireland and a further 9,200 people actively volunteer in their community’s credit union.

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PHOTOGRAPHED PUBLISHED 4 SEPTEMBER 2022

This photograph dates from May 2017 but it was published in September 2022.

When I first photographed this building about ten years ago a waiter in a nearby restaurant told me that it was to be converted into a hotel but this proved to be untrue. It would appear that it has been incorporated into a larger 17-storey office complex. The historic building and the new build structure will be linked at first and second floor, grouped around a central courtyard.

The same waiter also told me that the Ewart building was originally a box factory but further investigation leads me to believe that the business in question was located at 35 Bedford street which is now the Bridge House JD Wetherspoon [a superpub].

Because of its size and location it is/was not easy to photograph this four-storey sandstone building, which as lain empty for about twenty years. It was designed by James Hamilton, also the architect of the Waring Street Ulster Bank, now the Merchant Hotel.

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SANDYMOUNT CREDIT UNION – NOW CAPITAL CREDIT UNION

EWART’S WAREHOUSE BEDFORD STREET BELFAST AS IT WAS IN MAY 2017