Coloured postcard of a view in the Belfast Botanic Gardens, with children playing and the conservatory in the distance. The Royal Belfast Botanic Gardens were opened in 1829, as the working site of the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society; they were bought by the Belfast Corporation in 1894, and the Society liquidated. Richard Turner designed the conservatory, opened in 1840; the tropical ravine house was built by Charles McKimm, the head gardener, and opened in 1889