{"id":1790,"date":"2022-09-04T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10015\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2022-09-04T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:58:11","slug":"ewarts-warehouse-bedford-street-belfast-as-it-was-in-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10015\/ewarts-warehouse-bedford-street-belfast-as-it-was-in-may-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"EWART\u2019S WAREHOUSE BEDFORD STREET BELFAST AS IT WAS IN MAY 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PHOTOGRAPHED PUBLISHED 4 SEPTEMBER 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This photograph dates from May 2017 but it was published in September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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