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Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices
There are very few things that we can credit Europe for, perhaps except Euro Heritage Days, which allow us access to buildings previously denied to us.
On such building is the former headquarters and drawing rooms of Titanic builders, Harland & Wolff. The 13th & 14th September opened up the building and although empty proved to be an impressive monument to past glories.
The building which is in a bad state of repair was once owned by H&W but was later sold and is now under lease to the Titanic Foundation.
Sitting within a matter of feet to the new Titanic Belfast experience the building has proved popular with Belfast tourists and visitors to Northern Ireland. The building and drawing offices also proved popular with people wishing to share their experiences of having worked in the building and the famous shipbuilders and volunteers stood ready to document their experience for possible inclusion in future events.
The H&W HQ building (c. 1885 – 1917) is a grade B+ listed building on a site once known as Queens Island but now more commonly called Titanic Quarter and is essential as Belfast attempts to captivate the tourist interest in the sunken liner.
Despite being one of the few Harland & Wolff Buildings left, having been used to design and build over a thousand ships including Titanic, like Ormiston House the building has fallen foul of poor governorship by the Northern Ireland Assembly and will in due course be transformed into a luxury hotel.
