Gustav Wilhelm Wolff Home Still Under Threat Is The Northern Ireland Environment & Heritage Service Dragging Its Feet On This Issue Ask The Palmerston

We are sorry to report to our residents that we have no contact from the Northern Ireland Environment & Heritage Service, with regard to having the home where Gustav Wilhelm Wolff once lived listed as part of our Historic Buildings on behalf of the residents of East Belfast. The Northern Ireland Environment & Heritage Service contacted the residents association on the 28th March 2008 and since then we have had no contact with them, in that correspondence they stated that they hoped to be in a position to provide us with a substantive response to our correspondence in the next few weeks to date the residents association has not received any such response.
We feel this issue should have been dealt with long ago as this home is part of the history of Northern Ireland and our great shipbuilding history. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff one of the founders of Harland & Wolff also co founder of the Belfast Rope Works, was a resident of The Den Station Road Belfast Northern Ireland. He achieved great work for the people of East Belfast, he supported the Ulster Hospital for Sick Children he was also involved in the establishment of ballymacarret, although Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was born in Hamburg on the 10th October 1843 he was a true son of East Belfast
The Residents of East Belfast have nothing to commemorate this great man as he is buried at the Brompton Cemetery. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff received the freedom of the city of Belfast on the 18th February 1911 he died at 2.00am on 17th April,one day and one year after the sinking of the Titanic (Clara May's Diary Notes) out of respect to his memory, the flag at the City Hall was flown at half mast and a special meeting of the Belfast Corporation Committee a Resolution was passed expressing deep sympathy with the relatives and admiration for Mr Wolff's independence and nobility of character
The Residents Association feels that Sydenham was the home of Gustav Wilhelm Wolff and East Belfast Is the home of Harland & Wolff a ship from the H&W yard was a Belfast Boat,as affectionately referred to by the workforce. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was referred to by the Belfast Corporation Committee as Nobility of Character. Dedication by Gustav Wolff and Sir Edward Harland and the great workforce went into each and every ship built in the yard this is Northern Irelands History and we should be proud of it WE ASK THE NORTHERN IRELAND ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE SERVICE TO PROTECT OUR HISTORY AND OUR CHILDRENS HISTORY PROTECT THE DEN ON STATION ROAD AS PART OF THEIR HISTORY AND FOR THE MEN WHO LOST LIVES AND FOR THE MEN WHO WORKED IN THE BIGGEST SHIPYARD IN THE WORLD HARLAND AND WOLFF ALSO FOR THE PROUD PEOPLE OF SYDENHAM DISTRICT