| Name: |
WATT (GRAEME) & TULLOCH |
| Building: |
CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, EAST BRIDGE STREET, ELECTRICITY STATION |
| Date: |
1898 |
| Nature: |
New electric station to replace one in Chapel Lane for Belfast Corporation. Red brick and Giffnock stone; 'pronounces by a competent authority to be one of the best electric light stations in the kingdom' (Irish Times). Cost: £25,000. Opened by Earl Cadogan, 18 Oct 1898. Contractor: J. & W. Stewart, Belfast. |
| Refs: |
Irish Times, 21 Sep,19 Oct 1898; IB 40, 15 Oct 1898, 153; Building News 75, 21 Oct 1898, 568; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 62.
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