{"id":1565,"date":"2024-10-10T21:43:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T20:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2024-10-10T21:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T20:43:03","slug":"the-boyne-bridge-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/the-boyne-bridge-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boyne Bridge, Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m in two minds about this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2ekvp24lgko\">BBC<\/a> reports that the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society are intending to take Translink to court in a bid to stop the demolition of the Boyne Bridge in Belfast as part of the latter&#8217;s plans to develop the area immediately adjacent to the new Grand Central Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst part of me sees Translink mimicking CIE&#8217;s status as a property development company with the inconvenience of a public transport network attached, I can&#8217;t necessarily see that the bridge requires preservation and if it is worthy of preservation, does it absolutely need to be preserved at that location?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DR11232-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"Boyne Bridge Belfast\" class=\"wp-image-1566\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DR11232-1024x731.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DR11232-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DR11232-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DR11232.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Boyne Bridge Belfast. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in two minds about this one. The BBC reports that the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society are intending to take Translink to court in a bid to stop the demolition of the Boyne Bridge in Belfast as part of the latter&#8217;s plans to develop the area immediately adjacent to the new Grand Central Station. Whilst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}