As a resident of Belfast I’m guilty of it, why are we so obsessed with these bloody huge cranes.
Picture taken by me on a cold spring morning last year.
by Belfastian_1985
As a resident of Belfast I’m guilty of it, why are we so obsessed with these bloody huge cranes.
Picture taken by me on a cold spring morning last year.
by Belfastian_1985
16 comments
Nice shot 
Distinctive to the city. Seen from all over. I think if they ever got it of proper use that they’d make an unique visitor attraction to go up them
because frankly Belfast doesn’t have anything vaguely as iconic. You look at that and you think “ah fuck, it’s Belfast, I got on the wrong plane.”
Every time I head home these cranes remind me of it. I know it’s cheesy but nice to know my ancestors worked on the docks and also starting the harbour police.
Also nice pic. Where’d you go for this angle?
‘Look at these unsuccessful things. And to your left, you’ll see the building we built to the same specs of an unsuccessful boat’
edit: class photo though
I live abroad now and my partner has said please no more pictures or models or anything else of yellow cranes in our house please. I think I bought one picture myself and have had several gifts too. Several visitors have also asked why we have multiple pictures of yellow cranes lol. Going up them would be cool though.
Do the cranes still work?
Leave Fraser and Niles out of this!
Because they make cracker subjects for photos, as you’ve proved with your own shots
I find it odd that they’re not more closely associated with Harland and Wolfe’s sectarianism. They’re not the most inclusive symbol of the city!
Glasgow has its famous Finnieston crane. Now disused but you can visit it and, on occasion, a zip line is set up on it for charitable types to slide down. Perhaps something similar could be done with these pair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnieston_Crane?wprov=sfti1
They represent a future that never happened, a story that mirrors the Titanic. Two of the largest gantry cranes on earth at the time and one of the largest dry docks in the world to this day.
Don’t know why they don’t just melt them down. What use are they
Features on criminally overlooked NI band Ghost of an American Airman’s Life Under Giants album cover.
The cranes are loved by 45% of the city and seen by the rest as a reminder of dark dark days.
But of course all history is important, not just our own.
Some people think they helped build the Titanic. And by some people I mean me when I was younger.
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