UTV

A special live broadcast on both BBC and UTV, hosted by Eamonn Holmes, celebrating the best of Northern Ireland television over the past 60 years and marking the occasion of digital switchover.

Van Morrison and The Chieftains recoded live at Ulster Hall, Belfast, in 1988 for Ulster Television Productions.

Unlike many parts of Belfast, Springfield Park at the beginning was a mixed development with people moving from predominant the Falls or Shankill Road and as the viewers are told at the beginning "for the original residents it was one community". Initial friendly relationships between those who lived there come under strain with the army beginning to be a common occurrence on the street, and the rapid erection of two new estates on either side of Springfield Park

Former workers and locals recount the history of the Belfast Gasworks. Built on ground owned by the Marquis of Donegall and opened in 1822, the works generated heat and light for the city for more than a century and a half. So profitable were the works, the proceeds paid for Belfast City Hall. The gasworks continued as a vital source of domestic and industrial energy well into the twentieth century – by the end of World War II some 120,000 people were reliant on on the facility for their heat and light. By the 1960s, however, new technologies and energy sources began reducing public dependence on the works. Today the old funnel and clocktower mark the place that was once the heart of Belfast’s gas-making industry.