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Belfast Royal Academy, The First Century 1785-1885 by A.T.Q. Stewart
Belfast Royal Academy, The Second Century 1995-1985 by Edward McCamley
Belfast Royal Academy, 1785-1935 by Hugh Shearman
Bertie Lyttle 2A
Contents
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1) Foreword
2) Preface
3, 4, 5, 6, 7) The Founding and the Early Years
The Academy and its Surroundings in 1792.
The Academy under Dr. Bruce. II
The Academy under Dr. Bruce. III
The Close of the Nineteenth Century
The Twentieth Century
Activities Connected with the School
Some Old Pupils
Thomas Romney Robinson 1792; Alexander Mitchell 1780; Henry Pottinger 1789;
George Benn 1801; Hugh McCalmont Cairns 1819; Sir Samuel Ferguson 1810;
Joseph Gillas Biggar 1828; Sir Donald Currie 1825; James Bryce; Robert Henry
Charles 1856; Canon Grainger; Dr. Thomas Andrews; Sir James Emerson Tennent;
Rt. Hon. Robert Young; Sir William Quartus Ewart; Sir John MacLeavy Brown;
Sir Henry McLaughlin; Reverend J. M. Simms; - etc. etc. etc.
Bibliography
Index
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'My Bangor' from the 1890's by C. F. Milligan
Charles F. Milligan, O.B.E.
Index & Preamble
Bangor As I First Knew It - The German Spy - Kingsland - Boyhood Memories of
Groomsport - How Electricity Came to Bangor - The Death of Queen Victoria -
How Bangor Celebrated the Coronation of King Edward VII - Our Wartime
Soldiers' Canteen - The Weeping Willow and the Soldier - The Name on the
Plaque - The Town Clerk, the Bank Manager and the Overdraft - The Palestine
Exhibition - Edward VII at Bangor - The McKee Clock - The Big Hall that
never was Built - Sand for Air-Raid Shelters - The Election of Thomas Bailie
as M.P. - The Ulster Clubs Come to Bangor
Naval Occasions - The Valley Forge - Paul Jones - The Duke of Schomberg -
Dufferin Memorial Hall - Bangor's Old Spa Well - Bangor Hospital - Doctors -
Chemists - Bangor Parliamentary Bill - Council Minutes - Council Affairs -
Visit of Lord Mayor of London - The Night of the Big Wind - Bangor Did Not
Wait For the Planners ....
.... Bangor Did Not Wait For the Planners continued - Planning - A Fishy
Story - Lady Wakehurst and the Barnacle Geese - The Picture at Stormont - I
Share a Taxi, Meet an Old Friend and Remember a Good Story - Yachting -
Bangor Corinthian Sailing Club - The Copeland Islands - Bangor Grammar
School - Bangor Fire brigade, Better Never Than Late - The Bangor Railway
Disaster of 1945 - Bangor Amateur Swimming Club, Pickie Pool, Hot Salt
Slipper Baths - Road Transport ....
... Road Transport continued - How It All Began - I Join The Council - How A
Cork Man Solved Our Triptyque and Bonded Car Problem for Us! - George and
Davie - A Country Girl, the Milk Man and a Bottle of Grade A T.T. Milk - How
Bangor Got Its Special Care Schools - Mrs. Ethel Butler - Mrs. Mary I.
Norman - James Hamilton - I am Summoned for Contempt of Court - Two Stories
on Gambling - "Bangor, Surely an Enduring City Glorious and Deserving Built
Upon a Hill"
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1) The visit of H.M. Queen Elizabeth and H.R.H. Prince Philip Duke of
Edinburgh at Town Hall, 9th August 1961, was an important event during
Alderman C. A. Valentine's term of office as Mayor.
2) Bangor Abbey Founded 555 to 558 A.D.
3) Groomsport Pier as built by the Norseman. The Board of Works cemented it
over, in the early 1900's. - The Dufferin Villas Jetty, East Ballyholme Bay
4) The Cliona designed by Linden Hope
5) The Big Hall that never was built, Bangor Endowed School, built and
operational June 1862, closed 1898, sold to Bangor Council 1901, proceeds by
court order to Dr. Connolly's School.
6) Members of Ballyholme Sailing Club, 1903.
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1) Ship ashore, Wilson's Point, The Big Wind 1894 - The Old Wooden
Switchback, destroyed 1894
2) Sir Thomas Lipton on Shamrock with Pilot Charlie Scott and Mt. Sycamore,
R.U.Y.C. Regatta - The 2nd Division Atlantic Fleet at Bangor 1907
3) Bangor Harbour about 1890 - The Dinghy Park, Ballyholme Regatta Day
4) Bangor Fire Brigade about 1932 - Long Car Bangor/Donaghadee Service about
1898
5) Bangor castle built in 1856 by Edward Ward
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Second Thoughts by Charles F.
Milligan O.B.E.
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1) Second Thoughts In which I recall
The Early Commercial Life in Belfast before the advent of the motor car -
Additional Stories About Bangor - and some incidents in Two World Wars by
Charles F. Milligan, O.B.E.
2) The visit of H.M. Queen Elizabeth and H.R.H. Prince Philip Duke of
Edinburgh at Town Hall, Bangor, 9th August, 1961, was an important event
during Alderman C. A. Valentine's term of office as Mayor.
3) Index: Belfast's First Motor Cars; The History of the Bank Buildings;
Commercial Travellers; My Personal Adventures as a Junior Salesman; New
Year's Day in Sligo; The Dentists; Johnny the Country Boy; Bed Boards and
Aeroplane Linen; Match Making in the 1870's; Kate McBride and the Grand
Fleet; A Matter of Life and Death; The German Account of the Bombing of
Belfast; Salesmen and Others I have met; A Salesman who was taught a lesson;
The Tailor who was different; The Draper and the Income Tax Man; Christmas
Turkey at the Bank Buildings; Fluorescent Lighting at the Bank Buildings;
Road Transport in the Past; Road Transport in the early 1800's; The Wee Red
Headed Girl; The Important Gentleman and the Horse that knew best; The
Chicken and the Head Waiter; W. D. Scott and the Silk Tax; The Electricity
Authority and the Bangor Gas Department; I am accused of trying to pass Bad
Money; Forged Bank Notes?; A Question of Interest; Edward VII arrives at
Bangor; Nomad's Weekly Pictures of Visit; How the South lost the North in
World War II; Bangor in World War II; Bangor was Shelled from the Sea; The
Americans in Bangor; I join the Navy; How I learned the War was over; How
Cobh (Queenstown) Cathedral got its Bells; A Naval-cum-Military Funeral at
Waterford; I got myself a job; Bangor Sea cadet Corps; Naval Terms; The
Wrens; The Eye Eye Witness; The Giant's Causeway; Dunluce Castle; Seafarers;
The Man who did not want to be Irish; Never on a Sunday; The Americans in
Queenstown in World War 1; U.S.S. Melville Flagship and U.S.S. Dixie as
Depot Ship; To the Big Ship Officers; The Proposed New Yachting Harbour at
Bangor; Old Chart commemorating the Landing of King William in 1690; The
Ulster Clubs come to Bangor; Bangor retains its ancient, appealing
atmosphere; Bangor's Early History; Bronze Broaches found at Ballyholme;
Bangor Bronze Bell and Hanging Bowl; N.Z. Premier's Visit to Northern
Ireland; Ulster Visit in Pictures
INTRODUCTION: In my first little book, I told the
story of my life in Bangor, and in public service. This time I hope to
recount some of my business experiences and childhood in Belfast. I
was born in No. 1 Royal Terrace, opposite the entrance to the City Hospital
of today, then the Workhouse. Our family lived at Royal Terrace from
the 1880s into the 1890s. The terrace of large Victorian houses had
underground kitchens, etc. I was the youngest of nine and I had five
sisters, and three brothers; there were others who died in infancy. My
nursery was a large room on the third floor that ran the full width of the
house, and was presided over by "Old Jane," a family retainer who had been
with my mother since her early days of married life. Elder brothers and
sisters would call in for a snack at the nursery tea. The view from
the nursery windows was the Workhouse gates, and times were set by the
passage in and out of the children who lived in the Workhouse and went to a
school outside. They were all dressed alike which immediately stamped
them as institutional. What a fine thing it is today that we have got away
from this Victorian concept of the Poor Law system. It is not generally
known that the Granger collection of Peruvian antiques was first housed at
No. 1 Royal Terrace. A cousin of my mother's, an Alcorn from Omagh, was a
civil engineer who had been building railways in Peru, and had picked the
items up in the course of railway construction. He brought the items home
with a request to my father to dispose of them for him, with the exception
of a few items which I gave to the Museum very many years afterwards.
This collection was stored by my father until Canon Granger bought it, and
put it on display at the Central Library premises in Royal Avenue. One
of the items consisted of two smoked and shrunken human heads in glass jars
- they may be in the Stranmillis Museum today. I will never forget them, it
happened this way: Being a small boy on the prowl, I noticed my mother's
keys hanging in the store room door. What a golden opportunity! I turned the
key and went in and had a good look round to see what I could find to eat.
My eyes fastened on two glass jars on a top shelf, containing human heads
that appeared to be looking down at me. I fled in panic. In those days
the residents of Royal Terrace, like a great many other Belfast people, had
seaside houses. In fact one half of Ballyholme, and all the houses in
Dufferin Villas would be locked up in the winter. Our seaside house at that
time was No. 2 Hamilton Villas, which adjoin Dufferin Villas on the east
side of Ballyholme Bay. In Royal Terrace there were two old ladies
living in one of the houses a few doors from our house. They had seen better
days and were, so to speak, trying to keep up with the Joneses. In due
course the blinds would come down and the house would be locked up in July,
and re-opened in August. One summer some of our family returned to
Royal Terrace and noticed dimmed lights in the house. After informing the
police and making inquiries they discovered that the old ladies were living
at home in the back premises on the pretence of being away on holiday.
As a small boy I remember the Italian organ grinders, complete with a monkey
who visited Royal Terrace at regular intervals, and I was rather partial to
monkeys and organ grinders. My eldest sister was getting married, and
I found myself being fitted out with a plush velvet suit, which I did not
like. I said I would not go to the wedding, and refused to wear the suit,
but my old nurse suggested that there would be a large organ there, and I
concluded that there would be a large monkey to match, and decided to go. I
recall being rather puzzled, as to what bridesmaids were for, and then I
settled that they were thrown in to give the man a choice. I have a distinct
recollection of seeing my future brother-in-law putting his finger in the
corner of his mouth, and having a good look round, and pointing to my
sister. So much for the imagination of a small boy. .....
to continue reading CLICK the 2nd image above
The hydraulic model of the proposed Bangor
Marina
The Yachting Harbour, Bangor - We know that at present, not much can be
done, but it is a great step forward to have plans ready, that have been
tested and approved. It is also reasonable to hope that such a work carried
out would be a boost to Bangor, and the Tourist industry in general,
provided facilities for the general public in addition to the yachting
fraternity are provided by the development of the North Pier. One
might also hope that the considerable amount of work which would be given to
a large volume of various crafts employed, would be better than paying out
vast sums to people on the dole.
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