The true heritage
What is it about bars that holds the Belfast heritage better than churches? Fantastic to see that a campaign to save the Rotterdam in Belfasts old dockland has won at least a reprieve. Together with its ecclesiastical equivalent Charles Lanyon’s very fine Sinclair Seamens church it represents a last remnant of a seafaring age that shaped so much of the character of Belfast. Not so successful was the campaign to save or even shunt elsewhere – the deeply mourned …