Spinning Yarns - Linen Quarter Walking Tour for EHOD 2024
15th Sep 2024 10:45am - 12:45pm
British Summer Time
British Summer Time
at Ulster Hall
Add to Calendar
Tickets
Event Details
This
fun and informative walking tour links past and present, helping you see
what’s on the streets of Belfast's Linen Quarter in a new light and just how
much there is to do and enjoy in this unique district. Along the way, your experienced Belfast
tour guide will share many entertaining ‘yarns’ – stories of people and
events across 250 years that relate to what you are seeing.
Along the way, your experienced Belfast tour guide will share many entertaining ‘yarns’ – stories of people and events across 250 years that relate to what you are seeing. For example: Where the largest bell in the city rings out from and why it was silenced for a time! The venue where Italian tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, sang for his UK debut in 1963, and another where Led Zeppelin in 1971 first played live the famous song ‘Stairway to Heaven’. Where linen and other workers would go for their weekly baths before homes were modernised! How a modest record shop set up in the late ‘70s is now celebrated in a film, a musical and by colourful street art in an open-air gallery.
The leisurely route will take in buildings of impressive architecture, iconic entertainment venues, historic and quaint bars, exciting outdoor public spaces and markets, colourful street art, unique gems of shops, great places to eat and drink and much more.
Along the way, your experienced Belfast tour guide will share many entertaining ‘yarns’ – stories of people and events across 250 years that relate to what you are seeing. For example: Where the largest bell in the city rings out from and why it was silenced for a time! The venue where Italian tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, sang for his UK debut in 1963, and another where Led Zeppelin in 1971 first played live the famous song ‘Stairway to Heaven’. Where linen and other workers would go for their weekly baths before homes were modernised! How a modest record shop set up in the late ‘70s is now celebrated in a film, a musical and by colourful street art in an open-air gallery.
The leisurely route will take in buildings of impressive architecture, iconic entertainment venues, historic and quaint bars, exciting outdoor public spaces and markets, colourful street art, unique gems of shops, great places to eat and drink and much more.