EHOD Part Two

Today I took my camera, so the images won’t be as professional.

This is Campbell College, a very exclusive private school that was once home to Belfast’s elite. As is the way with globalisation, it now counts many students from the Mideast and China among its wards.

Impressive warthogs:

Just like with Stormont Castle, it’s right up the road from where we live and I’ve been dying to have a look inside. Back in the day it had an officer’s training program. Which meant it supplied officers to all of Britain’s wars, from various colonial wars in South Africa and India to the world wars. Amazingly 127 Campbell students died in the First World War. Of course the ratio of young men who died in WWI is very high in small towns across Northern Ireland. Here is the great hall.

Scenes from the Frankenstein Chronicles were filmed here. I never saw the film, but it was shown in the Great Hall as part of European Heritage days.
Note the photos along the walls of Campbell students who died in battle: WWI downstairs, WWII upstairs.

Just one individual photo:

All the names of those who died in WWI listed here:

The centre panel:

I wonder what it’s like for young boys to gather in this hall every day surrounded by tributes to men hardly older than them who died in war?

One more:

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