This photo was taken on a freezing cold morning in Lisburn’s Castle Gardens. Castle Gardens is the most historic open space in Lisburn. It is the site of Lisburn castle, a 17th Century fortified manor house first built in the 1620′s. The house was burnt down in the fire of 1707 and not rebuilt, but the fortified walls and garden terraces remain.

The Wallace drinking fountain in the photograph can be easily missed, this and the memorial were erected in 1891 to commemorate Lisburn’s landlord and great benefactor, Sir Richard Wallace (1818 – 1890).

This photo was also taken on the same day.