Three Minutes in Bangor, Northern Ireland

[@piketroy4576]

A NOTE IN A BOTTLE: I stood her up, it was Sep15,1968. Her name was Ann my name is Harvie. She lived near the boys school in Bangor. I was a sailor. We met at a dance, I remember the club as being Moloney's. We went to her place for only a few minutes. I made a date with her to meet her at the train station in Belfast the next day but my ship got underway & I was not able to meet her for our day of fun. There is no way she could have known what happened but it was impossible for me to contact her or give an explanation. So Ann, if you are still out there & if by chance you should read this, please understand it was beyond my control but you remain a very important person that I have often thought of & wondered, what might have been. I live in USA.

[@paulweir5031]

Pike Troy: wasn't the dance at Milano's, on Seacliff Road ?

[@HRShanghai]

The note made me cry. It is so romantic. I hope the lady will read your message one day.

[@piketroy4576]

Thanks for your comments

[@ralphsmyth9635]

Many fond memories. Sailing my wee model yacht in Ward Park pond just near the Hamilton Road entrance along with many other kids - happy, innocent times. The Locarno for fish and chips, tea bread and butter with my brother & grandparents and before the Marina was built dodging the crashing waves coming over the sea wall up towards Pickie Pool in rough weather lol!

[@thomasoflaherty3520]

Visiting the north of Ireland is always worth a visit, I live in Tyrone.

[@marthaaudrina7968]

Thomas O'Flaherty couldn’t agree more ! Martha has never actually been to Tyrone , so we must put that on our list !

[@nerdynoodles4863]

I must ask, how do you pronounce Tyrone?

[@paulweir5031]

@@nerdynoodles4863 Tirroan: the first syllable as in tiramisu, the second as in moan. Never Tie - roan, although this has been heard ! Berkeley is another that gets my goat, it's BARK not BERK; although the word berk, as in ' he is a right berk ' comes from the mispronunciation. Many English people use the word without knowing that it is shortened rhyming slang from Berkeley Hunt; you can work out the true meaning of berk, I'm sure.

[@bobbycinnamond8404]

Loved going here as a kid

[@keithwilson1554]

My Great, Great Grandfather pictured here came from Bangor in 1857 with his brother and settled in Australia. His name is Robert Wilson and he married a Esther McWilliams in the First Meetinghouse presbyterian church in 1853 and they had two children born in Bangor one being my Great Grandfather William. I did contact the Local Historical Society who meet in that church but they couldn't find any Wilson's left in Bangor. Hope to get there one day.

[@iceman877]

Love Northern Ireland !!

[@jeanettekennedy7433]

thank you i just love Bangor

[@marthaaudrina7968]

jeanette kennedy so much to love about it, especially for families. Ward and Pickie Park are my favourites.

[@paulweir5031]

You must be easily pleased.

[@paulweir5031]

@@marthaaudrina7968 Pickie Park, as you call it, ruined the area.

[@waxeater112]

2:31 r.i.p the flagship used to be a lovely wee place.

[@ldohertysbiggestfan4862]

FAX! I remember in its final days it was just poudland and that outdoors shop

[@paulweir5031]

@@ldohertysbiggestfan4862 Bridge Street was a much nicer place with West's high class confectioner and tobacconist, the Boulevard café, etc.

[@piketroy4576]

Just checking back. I didn't hear from Ann but I still have hope. The way KZbin hides comments now does not help.

[@zuziaklimek9400]

You made Bangor look better than it is😂

[@marthaaudrina7968]

zuzia81 hihihi, no photoshopping was done 🤣

[@emilyjane1568]

Honestly where i live it’s like this hahaha

[@waxeater112]

Aye, it's a shithole

[@waxeater112]

@@marthaaudrina7968 aye, very good.

[@ldohertysbiggestfan4862]

@@waxeater112 I mean its not THAT bad i mean it can get boring but

[@loretoparas566]

Nice video.. God bless always.. From the 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[@waxeater112]

I live in Bangor

[@apemangeezer6969]

So do I

[@paulweir5031]

Hard luck, why don't you move ?

[@waxeater112]

@@paulweir5031 just did, knocknagoney

[@paulweir5031]

@@waxeater112 Glutton for punishment.

[@waxeater112]

@@paulweir5031 lmfaoo 😭😭

[@paulweir5031]

Used to be a good place to live pre 1970.

[@paulweir5031]

Castle Park desecrated, it was left to the people of Bangor to enjoy not to be turned into building sites and car parks. That bloody marina which has brought in how much? So many lovely pubs, Marine, Furey's, Tavern, Davy Woodman's, Lynch's gone or changed out of recognition; no big Co-op at the foot of Main Street, Addy's and Balmer's chemists, Jubilee, Boulevard, West's, I could go on. No Laird's or Caulfield's rowing boats. No Royal hotel.

[@ldohertysbiggestfan4862]

Not a mall and it was called the Flagship. It closed about a year ago tho

[@berlinberlinberlinberlin4929]

Don't they have pubs ??

[@nornironnomad]

Liked and subscribed to your channel, gave me some good ideas for my next video!

[@mrmckenzie5602]

Bangor is so nice I wish I could live there oh wait I do live there hahahahahah

[@samuelm1373]

Average Alien el gaka

[@mrmckenzie5602]

Average Alien no you

[@waxeater112]

It's not that nice

[@paulweir5031]

It's a shithole now.

[@mrmckenzie5602]

@@paulweir5031 he dosent lie

[@paulweir5031]

It is pronounced Ban - gor, and I should know as it's where I was born; a rundown hole, not the lovely wee town of my youth.

[@camilleorwin186]

Do you think you could expand on that, Paul?

[@piggyking1584]

it’s actully 3 minutes and 1 second

[@gabriellezitra6211]

I live in bangor

[@ayden3810]

The Gaming Banana that explains why you’re crazy

[@gabriellezitra6211]

+xtra doc, (xtra) lol

[@Bingostill]

Oi so do i

[@peterjennings6178]

Sesh at castle park this weekend mate

[@paulweir5031]

Then move.

[@georgebarnes8163]

It only takes 3 minutes to see what is left of Bangor, not much more than boarded up shops and demolished buildings now, now even worth a visit anymore.

[@ryanmorphyrichards9013]

Bloat isn't a licensed door man

[@ventix3098]

That was the picky 0:14

[@paulweir5031]

Pickie.

[@paulagnew8130]

i live in Bangor ....it's a poor excuse for a town , infact it's a chost town

[@ldohertysbiggestfan4862]

I mean i live here to and I disagree

[@paulweir5031]

It's a shithole.