St Georges Market, Belfast, July 2010 (02)

The Market Quarter is an area of

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, including St George's Market, an area of

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precinct, a conference and concert hall and the Hilton Hotel. The area once had 14 markets, but today only St George's Market, built between 1890 and 1896, remains. St George's Market is separated by East Bridge Street from The Market, an area of inner-city housing, which itself is adjacent to a vacant site, formerly the city's Haymarket, and

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*http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/stgeorgesmarket/index.asp Quarters of Belfast {{Belfast-geo-stub