According to Val, once the supermarket relocated elsewhere so did the shoppers and the footfall began to decline. THE LONDON GAZETTE, 4Tii APRIL 1974" (PDF). The QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, bearing date the 1st day of April 1974, to ordain that the Town of Bangor shall have the status of a City. Granddaughter of Ike Eisenhower leads Bangor celebrations". Belfast Telegraph. 5 July 2008 . Retrieved 23 June 2022.

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Colin Bateman, author, screenwriter and journalist attended Bangor Grammar School ( County Down Spectator) The city has long been the most cosmopolitan settlement in Gwynedd, attracting incomers from both England and further afield, with Bangor University being a key institution. At the 2011 Census, 49.3% of Bangor's population was born outside Wales. [41] [42] Nevertheless, Welsh was the majority vernacular of the city in the 1920s and 1930s; at the 1921 Census, 75.8% of Bangor's inhabitants could speak Welsh with 68.4% of those aged 3–4 being able to, indicating that Welsh was being transmitted to the youngest generation in most homes. [44] The 1931 Census showed little change, with 76.1% of the overall population being able to speak Welsh. [45] Education [ edit ]

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The head office of Gwynedd Archaeological Trust is located on Garth Road. [24] The Trust was established in 1974, and carries out surveys, outreach and education, and excavations across Gwynedd and Anglesey. Pointon, GE (1990). BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (2nded.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-19-282745-6. NI Assembly: Key Statistics for Settlements, Census 2011 NIAR 404-15" (PDF). niassembly.gov.uk. 1 October 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 April 2017 . Retrieved 10 August 2017.

Bryn Terfel: Pontio theatre named after opera star in Bangor". bbc.co.uk. 11 October 2013 . Retrieved 28 November 2013. It took some thought for Margaret Chernosky to convince her students that they should care about a historical event that had nothing to do with them. Skene, William Forbes (1877). Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban. II ·. Vol.2. Edmonston & Douglas. p.55. We all are products of the past. We’ve lost some of that in our culture,” she said. “It’s up to us to keep telling the stories … to protect what is beautiful and difficult and to pass it on.”

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David Trimble, Nobel Laureate, former Ulster Unionist Party leader and former First Minister of Northern Ireland For historians like Shaw, the fire is the perfect event to mine nuggets of detail about Bangor’s storied past. On Census day (27 March 2011) there were 61,011 people living in Bangor, accounting for 3.37% of the NI total. [10] Of these: The former seafront of the city is awaiting redevelopment and has been for over two decades, with a large part of the frontage already demolished, leaving a patch of derelict ground facing onto the marina. A great deal of local controversy surrounds this process and the many plans put forward by the council and developers for the land. In November 2009 it was voted by UTV viewers as Ulster's Biggest Eyesore. A state of the art recycling centre has been built in Balloo Industrial Estate which is supposed to be one of the most advanced in Europe. It opened in the summer of 2008. [36] [37] It really was amazing so few were harmed,” said Lippitt. “Many literally stood amid the flames to watch.”

At the time, there was an overwhelming sense of “Of course, we are going to rebuild.” Bangor had a lot of pride, Shaw said, a pride that exists today.All these changes combined can have a wide-reaching effect on organisms that live on or in the seabed, potentially changing biodiversity (species richness) and the delivery of some of these ecosystem services. Consideration should also be given to the aggregation of fish strongly associated with particular seabed properties. If displaced, an impact on the food chain would be observed, as seabed-dwelling fish are consumed by seabirds and cetaceans. The name Bangor comes from Irish: Beannchar, from Middle Irish: Beannchor and Old Irish: Bennchor. This is thought to mean 'place of points' or 'horned curve', referring to the shoreline of Bangor Bay. [6] The Old Irish tale, Táin Bó Fraích, gives a fanciful explanation for the name. It tells how the Connacht warrior Fráech and the Ulster warrior Conall Cernach were returning to Ireland from the Alps with Fráech's cattle. When they came to shore at what is now Bangor Bay, the cattle shed their horns, thus giving rise to the name Trácht mBennchoir, "the strand of the horn-casting". [6] Ballyvarnet, historically 'Ballyvernan' (from Irish: Baile Bhearnan, meaning 'townland of the gap') Population of city council areas in Wales, is third (18,322 residents) [14] with St Davids (1,841) and St Asaph (3,355)