Titanic Quarter

My last post was about the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast. This one is about the Titanic Quarter. I always find it amusing that Belfast people are so much more proud of the fact that the engineering disaster that was the Titanic was built in Belfast than they are of all the other things invented here like the pneumatic tyre, the ejector seat, the portable defibrillator etc.
The star shaped Titanic building above is designed to look like the bows of four of the ships built in the famous Harland & Wolff shipyard. It's built right at the end of the Titanic slipway where the Titanic first slid into the water just over a century ago.
The two famous cranes of Harland & Wolff still tower over the East of the city, but the yard is a shadow of its former self.
The final picture I took last night is of the SS Nomadic. The Nomadic was the tender to the Titanic, it ferried passengers and mail to and from the Titanic. Sadly it is the last existing ship of the once mighty White Star line.

Belfast has earned much more money from the Titanic tourist trail than it made from building the ship in the first place, the sadness has passed and after all, as Belfast people say about the Titanic, "it was alright when it left here".