Complete with bell and cast iron fountains, this Victorian cemetery was opened in 1869 as Belfast's first cross-denominational burial ground.

In 1916 sections were set aside for the city's Jewish community and the burial of deceased sailors and soldiers. The war connections continue with a monument to those killed in the 1941 Belfast Blitz and a Memorial Cross in honour of locals killed in action in WW2.

The cemetery is the city's largest with around 250,000 burials and, curiously, has a sunken wall dividing the Protestant and Catholic plots.

Many of Belfast's prominent figures from its industrial, religious and political past are buried here including: Viscount Pirrie, former Lord Mayor, controller of Harland & Wolff shipyard at the time of Titanic, Sir Edward Harland, former...