Belfast COVID19 Tribute
I ended up inadvertently taking a wee photographic tribute to COVID19 frontline workers last night. I was shooting the Belfast City Hall, which was lit up blue for the weekly tribute to National Health Service workers, which takes place every Thursday night during the epidemic, when I had to get out of the way as two buses came down Donegall Place behind me. But I reset quickly and they turned at the perfect moment!
The point being NHS workers are obviously frontline staff, but so are bus drivers, many of whom have died around the word, and so are a lot of council staff, especially the binmen/refuse collectors.
The focal point of Belfast's central business district, its 1898-1906 City Hall with its famous copper dome effectively divides the city's main retail and business districts. It was during this period, at the height of Belfast's industrial heyday, that the city briefly overtook Dublin as Ireland's most populous.
The architect was Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas. The city hall in Durban, South Africa, is virtually identical.
Belfast COVID19 Tribute
I ended up inadvertently taking a wee photographic tribute to COVID19 frontline workers last night. I was shooting the Belfast City Hall, which was lit up blue for the weekly tribute to National Health Service workers, which takes place every Thursday night during the epidemic, when I had to get out of the way as two buses came down Donegall Place behind me. But I reset quickly and they turned at the perfect moment!
The point being NHS workers are obviously frontline staff, but so are bus drivers, many of whom have died around the word, and so are a lot of council staff, especially the binmen/refuse collectors.
The focal point of Belfast's central business district, its 1898-1906 City Hall with its famous copper dome effectively divides the city's main retail and business districts. It was during this period, at the height of Belfast's industrial heyday, that the city briefly overtook Dublin as Ireland's most populous.
The architect was Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas. The city hall in Durban, South Africa, is virtually identical.