A cache to outline "Stranmillis Teaching
College" which was designed by Charles Lanyon who also designed
Queens Universitys famous Lanyon Building.
Stranmillis University College
Campus
Stranmillis University College is located in
Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belfast is the capital city of Northern
Ireland, and a good jumping off point for tourism in the province.
The University College is conveniently located to the major
airports and sea ports, being only 40 minutes from Belfast
International Airport, 15 minutes from Belfast City Airport, 15
minutes from the Port of Belfast, and less than two miles from the
City Centre.
It is one of the most attractive campuses in the British Isles.
The University College campus occupies a completely enclosed
site of great natural beauty - the College grounds consist of 18
hectares of woodland richly endowed with wildlife.
The University College lies in a tranquil and attractive part of
Belfast, in one of the most desirable leafy residential areas of
the City. Yet it is on the edge of the University district, and the
buzz of Belfast's city centre.
Only a few minutes walk away, towards the city centre, are the
cafes, restaurants, take-aways, and shops of Stranmillis Village.
The "Village", as it is known is the home of the Lyric Players
Theatre, acclaimed for its adventurous programme policy and its
high quality productions.
Just beyond the Village are the Botanic Gardens with their
renowned Victorian Palm House, an elegant structure of curved glass
and cast iron dating from 1839.
Adjoining the Botanic Gardens is the Ulster Museum, famous for
its collections of antiquities, its art galleries and specialist
exhibitions. One of its collections is the gold and silver jewelry
recovered by divers in 1968 from the Spanish Armada treasure ship
Girona, which was wrecked off the Giant's Causeway in 1588.
Next is the Queen's University of Belfast, whose original building
from 1849 still forms the Tudor-Gothic facade of the University. It
was designed by Charles Lanyon who designed just about every
building of note in Belfast.
Just beyond the University area, is the bustling night life of
Belfast's "Golden Mile" of entertainment, with its Grand Opera
House, Concert Hall, theatres, cinemas, and a bewildering variety
of restaurants.
Finally we arrive at the main shopping area of Belfast,
dominated by the City Hall, built around 1903, in the grand
Classical Renaissance style, with an Italian marble interior,
looking rather like an American state capitol building.
Stranmillis University College was founded in 1922 to provide
state-funded teacher training in the northern portion of the then
recently partitioned island. Until then most teachers in Ulster
schools had been trained in Dublin. The new Northern Ireland
government decided to open its own college and purchased for the
purpose Stranmillis House, also designed by Charles Lanyon, built
of sandstone and completed in 1858, with its attractive estate of
46 acres - only two miles from the centre of Belfast.
To get the bus to this cache then you need to get Metro service
8a from the city centre, university area or Malone Road. Parking is
available on the other side of the road from the cache but as this
is a very busy road be careful crossing.
The cache is a film canister. It contains a log, but no pencil,
so please bring one. There is no need to move stones from the wall
or climb the wall while trying to find the cache.
The cache can be accessed from the footpath, this is wheelchair
friendly but a wheelchair user may need to stretch to retreive the
cache.
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