Dunville & Co. Limited Buildings

Dunville & Co. Limited Royal Irish Distilleries (painting)
Viewed from the south-east. Beneath the steam engine and wagons at the lower right of the picture are the words 'Great Northern Railway near Terminus Belfast'. Behind the tall chimney is the Distillery Football Club. Its sign reads 'Distillery Footba', with the 'll' hidden behind a building. This painting and the other paintings below are from a poster advertising Dunville & Co. Ltd.

Dunville & Co. Limited Royal Irish Distilleries (engraving)
Viewed from the north-east, where they are approached from Distillery Street. The four-storey building with three hipped-end roofs, left of centre, and the chimney on the right, are also visible in the painting above.
Dunville & Co. was incorporated in 1879, becoming Dunville & Co. Limited, as written on the engraving. The engraving would therefore have been made in or after 1879.

Dunville & Co. Limited Royal Irish Distilleries (painting)
Viewed from the south-east. The entrance in the centre faces Distillery Street, to the right. The Distillery Football Club is to the left of the large warehouse with six gables in the centre. The four-storey building with hipped-end roofs at the lower left of the painting is also visible in the painting and the engraving above. However several changes appear to have been made to other buildings between the dates of the engraving and the painting.

Old map of Belfast showing the Royal Irish Distilleries to the left of the centre, the Distillery Football Club Ground to the north of it and Dunville Park at the top left. The U-shaped building in the painting above is visible on the map at the north-east corner of the Royal Irish Distilleries. However the large warehouse with six gables in the centre of the painting appears to have been placed on the location of the Football Ground on the map.

Dunville & Co Limited Royal Irish Distilleries Still House
The still house contains the large copper pot stills in which the fermented liquid is boiled to separate the alcohol from it. This photograph was taken by Thomas Holmes Mason (1877-1958) and is part of the Mason Photographic Collection of the National Library of Ireland.

Dunville & Co Limited Royal Irish Distilleries Still House (painting)
The still house contains the large copper pot stills in which the fermented liquid is boiled to separate the alcohol from it. This picture is almost identical to the photograph above it, and must have been painted from it. The pictures were therefore probably all painted for the Dunville & Co. Ltd. poster after the photographs were taken.

Dunville & Co. Limited Royal Irish Distilleries
This photograph was taken by Thomas Holmes Mason (1877-1958)
and is part of the Mason Photographic Collection of the National Library of Ireland.

Dunville & Co. Limited Bonded Warehouses, Adelaide Street (engraving)
Dunville & Co. was incorporated in 1879, becoming Dunville & Co. Limited, as written on the engraving. The engraving would therefore have been made in or after 1879.

Duty Paid and Bonded Stores, Adelaide Street (painting)
These are the bonded warehouses shown in the engraving above, at a later date. Visible in the engraving and on the poster are, from left to right, the two chimneys, the gable ends of two roofs, the sloping side of a roof, the square tower, and the gable end of another roof. However between the dates of the engraving and the painting, the two-storey offices at the lower left of the engraving have been replaced by a large warehouse, and the entrance in the engraving has been moved to the right to make room for more buildings.

Dunville & Co. Limited Bonded Warehouses, Alfred Street, Belfast
This photograph was taken by Thomas Holmes Mason (1877-1958)
and is part of the Mason Photographic Collection of the National Library of Ireland.

Dunville & Co Limited Head Offices, Arthur Street
This building is the only building once used by Dunville & Co. Ltd. that still exists. The photograph was taken by Thomas Holmes Mason (1877-1958) and is part of the Mason Photographic Collection of the National Library of Ireland. The offices in Arthur Street were built in 1906. This photograph would therefore have been taken in or after 1906.

Dunville & Co Limited Head Offices, Arthur Street (painting)
This is the only building once used by Dunville & Co. Ltd. that still exists. The offices in Arthur Street were built in 1906. The picture would therefore have been painted in or after 1906.