Eliza Street Ironworks
of Belfast
1850 Thomas A. Barnes and Co established the Belfast Ironworks in Eliza Street but this was not successful due to the cost of shipping coal to Ireland. Afterwards this became the property of the Belfast Iron Company.
1853 The principal in the works is Thomas M. Gladstone.[1]
1854 Mr. Hickson of the Eliza Street Iron Works [2]
A secondary enterprise located on Queen's Island, the building of ships, prospered; the proprietors of this yard were Robert Hickson and Co until 1858.