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I have this photo of a scene from my home town in North Wales. I'm trying to make sense of what im looking at. Is it an Armistice Day anniversary? What date? What are the flags? One looks as though it COULD have the word REMEMBER.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.By the way, the white building set sideways at the bottom of the right hand terrace was a bakery. We used to call in there on the way home from school for huge flat buns. 6d with cream and jam or 4d with just jam. Of course it wasn't real cream but a buttercream. They were absolutely delicious. Now demolished, as is the terrace on the left. Terrace on the right still exists.
Morning Horseshoes. Logged off early last night. I was the service manager for a TV sale and Rental Company. We had a shop on the High St up towards the Cathedral, part of the frontage of the old market top of town. We had a workshop above the Market up two flights of wooden stairs. Boiling hot in the Summer with the part glass roof and freezing in the winter. Swains grocers was next door and a butchers downstairs. It used to stink some days but it was a brilliant, vibrant place to work. The company built a brand new workshop for us up at Llandegai after a health and safety man saw us carrying the old massive colour TVs up the stairs, he was gobsmacked. They used to weigh about a cwt. Loved the people. Bangor aye.
Did a bit of digging Horseshoes, and it seems that the 14th May 1886 was a very big day in Bangor. The Pier was officially opened by Lord Penrhyn and the whole town was decked out with bunting. Not only that the Quarry was, unusually, closed and it was Ascension Day to boot and therefor a public holiday. Back then this would have been a very big deal, hence even Kyffin Square sporting bunting.
This is the day I mentioned. We forget that "clothing" did not change as quickly as we have become used to and the early 1900s dress styles would not have changed very much from the late 1800s.
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That last link Togo, many years ago a crowd of us used to go to Beaumaris for either Frid / Sat night out, this particular night a lad on the Bus called Leslie Baxter decided he wanted to swim from the opposite side of the straights from Bangor Pier, he drowned, at the side of the pier there's a tunnel going into the Cathedral, it is now sea