It has the features of any English manufacturing town so far as its buildings are concerned, and the finest structures it can show are the vast fabrics which rise in the dockyards, such ships as have never been built in the world before - marvels of symmetry and strength. The entrance to Botanic Gardens, a public park, is visible in both photographs. The location is in the heart of the city's university area. Trams have long disappeared from Belfast streets. The Titanic, under construction, is visible in the background.
Workers swarm to waiting trams to travel to the south, west and north of the city.
In 1911, the shipyard employed 14,000 men, of whom 4,000 worked on the Titanic. Merchant shipbuilding has declined throughout the world in the last thirty years.