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Spinning Yarns - Linen Quarter Walking Tour EHOD 2025

Meeting outside Ulster Hall, 34 Bedford Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT2 7FF
Spinning Yarns - Linen Quarter Walking Tour EHOD 2025

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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.

Maximum 20 participants on each of the two tours. 
 

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Season (13 Sept 2025 - 14 Sept 2025)
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Saturday - Sunday10:45 - 12:45

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