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Men working on tracks at the docks in Belfast beside the Pilot Office.

Thanks to Gerry Ward for this great background information: "The Pilot Office stood on the north side of the Lagan at the entrance to Spencer Dock. Spencer Dock, Dufferin Dock and York Dock were all enlarged, so where the Pilot Office stood is probably under water now - coordinates are about 54.612026,-5.913563. The Pilot Office had been described as "a collapsed telescope in the Tudor manner". The cannon are from the Crimean War. There are two ships being built in the background at the shipyards of Workman, Clark. This company began in 1879 and pioneered the development of the refrigerated steamer. At their peak Workman, Clark employed over 12,000 employees and was described in Belfast as the "Wee Yard". It occupied 80 acres on the north sde of the River Lagan and closed in 1935."

And blackpoolbeach added a little more about the unusual tracks in the foreground: "The tracks are a form of Baulk Road for the internal dock railway. No high speeds involved but capable of taking heavy loads."

Date: Circa 1890 (though very willing to be persuaded otherwise)