Bangor (Past and Present)

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Life at the BBC". bbc.com. The BBC is bombed – Hitler said that in war, words are actions. It is not surprising, then, that his bombers targeted Broadcasting House in London, or that the BBC had contingency plans for just such an event. These involved evacuating whole departments out of London. So Music went to Bedford, and Drama and Variety were based in Bristol until that city too came under fire, and Variety was transferred to Bangor in North Wales. A parliamentary borough was created in 1832 for Bangor, becoming a contributing Caernarfon out borough as its status grew due to further industry such as shipbuilding [4] as well as travel, not just from Telford's road, but through tourism mainly from Liverpool via steamboat. [5] It was also an ancient borough from earlier privileges granted to Bangor in medieval times, [6] but an 1835 government report investigating municipal corporations concluded that this status was defunct and in name only. [7] The borough was reformed in 1883 into a municipal borough. Platinum Jubilee: Eight towns to be made cities for Platinum Jubilee". BBC News. 19 May 2022 . Retrieved 20 May 2022.

Gwynedd is the most Welsh-speaking county in Wales, with 65.4% of people saying they could speak it at the 2011 Census, although Bangor has been significantly more Anglicised than its hinterland and the rest of Gwynedd, mostly because of the large student population. While nearby towns in Gwynedd, such as Bethesda and Caernarfon were still 75–80% Welsh speaking in 2011, [39] Bangor was already only 53.4% Welsh speaking as early as 1971. [40] Skene, William Forbes (1877). Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban. II ·. Vol.2. Edmonston & Douglas. p.55. Shaw likes to tell the story of Ashley Smith, a local pastor who saw the fire racing toward his church on Park Street and ran home to bury his Bible in his yard. That Bible exists today as part of the collection of the Bangor Museum and Center for History.

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Cathedral Church of St Deiniol, Bangor". British Listed Buildings. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 30 April 2016.

Bangor Abbey was an important and influential monastery founded in the 6th century by Saint Comgall. Bangor grew during the 17th century Plantation of Ulster, when many Scottish settlers arrived. Today, tourism is important to the local economy, particularly in the summer months, and plans are being made for the long-delayed redevelopment of the seafront; a notable historical building in the city is Bangor Old Custom House. The largest plot of private land in the area, the Clandeboye Estate, which is a few miles from the city centre, belonged to the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Bangor hosts the Royal Ulster and Ballyholme yacht clubs. Bangor Marina is one of the largest in Ireland, and holds Blue Flag status. [5] Name [ edit ] Bangor and the Beatles". Bangor University. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014 . Retrieved 27 October 2014. The Tower House 34 Quay Street Bangor Co Down (HB 23/05/012)". Department for Communities . Retrieved 23 June 2022. David Trimble, Nobel Laureate, former Ulster Unionist Party leader and former First Minister of Northern Ireland Saint Malachy was elected abbot of the monastery in 1123, a year before being consecrated Bishop of Connor. His extensive travels around Europe inspired him to rejuvenate the monasteries in Ireland, and he replaced the existing wooden huts with stone buildings. [23] 17th and 18th centuries [ edit ] The Old Custom House

The United States town of Bangor, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania draws its name from Bangor, Gwynedd. Bangor, Pennsylvania was settled around 1760 by Robert M. Jones, an emigrant from Bangor, Gwynedd who went on to be influential in the development of the town's slate industry. Slate quarries still exist in the small Pennsylvania town, but only a few are still functioning. A life-sized statue of Jones, dedicated on 24 September 1914, remains in the town centre. [51] The influence of Bangor, Gwynedd is visible in the stone walls, square gardens, flowers, and greenery that mirror those of its Welsh namesake. Also like Bangor, Wales, Bangor, Pennsylvania has piles of slate residue and shale reminiscent of the area. [52] Notable people [ edit ] Duffy, 2010 Owen Hurcum, 2021 See Category:People from Bangor, Gwynedd The Charter of Incorporation of the City of Bangor". Bangor Civic Society . Retrieved 9 March 2022. Friars School was founded as a free grammar school in 1557, and the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University) was founded in 1884. In 1877, the former HMS Clio became a school ship, moored on the Menai Strait at Bangor, and had 260 pupils. Closed after the end of hostilities of World War I, she was sold for scrap and broken up in 1919. The Annals of Ulster says that the monastery of Bangor was founded by Saint Comgall from Antrim in the year 555, [17] while other annals give the year as 558. [18] It was where the Antiphonary of Bangor ( Antiphonarium Benchorense) was written, a copy of which can be seen in the town's heritage centre. The monastery had such widespread influence that the city is one of only four places in Ireland to be named in the Hereford Mappa Mundi in 1300. The monastery, situated roughly where the Church of Ireland Bangor Abbey stands at the head of the city, became a centre of great learning and was among the most eminent of Europe's missionary institutions in the Early Middle Ages.