The Belfast Barge

Lagan Legacy’s barge bears a precious cargo – the extraordinary story of Belfast’s epic maritime and industrial past, told in a spectacular exhibition called ‘The Greatest Story Never Told.’

The River Lagan is the star in the epic. The co-stars are ubiquitous – on the films, screens and photographs, representing the hundreds of thousands of people who made Belfast one of the most vibrant industrial centres on earth. Down the centuries, hundreds of millions of tons of raw materials arrived on Belfast’s quays, and left from the same quays, magically re-formed as ships and machines, trains and trucks, fabrics and foodstuffs. Enriched with this legacy, today’s transforming city is racing forward with all the innovation, confidence and determination of its forefathers, but we risk losing the traces of Belfast’s unique industrial past in the rush.