Abbey dance studios (web) Bangor, offers classes in ballet and performing-arts dance. The mural outside the studio in Abbey Street is by Visual Waste (ig).
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Outsiders
Visual Waste (ig) reproduced a Terry Bradley (web) painting of a docker from the parlour (ig) of Outsiders Male Grooming (ig) on the gable of the business. The tattoo on the shoulder is the Tragedy & Comedy masks but with the titles “Sorrow” and “Pain” within “Mum (heart) Dad Forever”.
Bingham Lane, Bangor
Other Bradley dockers can be found at the Lanark Way security gates and in the Titanic Quarter.
Another Bradley in Bangor is Don’t Look Back.
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Botanical Borough
Here are the pieces painted for the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council’s ‘Botanical Borough’ project (BelTel), co-orindated by Daisy Chain (web). There are seven pieces by Hixxy (ig), one of a flower chosen by each of the seven different electoral areas of the Borough, in the towns of Randalstown, Antrim, Crumlin, Ballyclare, Whiteabbey, Monkstown, and Glengormley, with an additional piece in four of the towns by other aritsts.
Above is a flax flower by Hixxy in John St, Randalstown. Immediately below are bluebells by Hixxy and Andy Council at the library in Railway St, Antrim. The others follow.
Wild Roses by Hixxy and Woskerski on Main St, Crumlin
Flax flowers by Hixxy and Holly Pereira (with horses) in Ballyclare
Cherry Blossom by Hixxy next to the Six Three One Cafe in Whiteabbey
Flax by Hixxy at The Butchers & Deli in Monkstown
Forget-Me-Nots by both Hixxy, at the Lilian Bland Community Park, and Kitsune, on the Antrim Rd, Glengormley
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Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, commemorates and celebrates the end of hostilities in the first World War on November 11th, 1918. Many ceremonies in the UK take place on the second Sunday of the month, regardless of the date. This practice began in 1945, changing the WWII practice of marking the occasion on the preceding Sunday, to ensure that the holiday did not fall on a work-day (WP).
This large tarp (above) is at the Shore Road memorial garden to the 10th, 36th, and 16th divisions, shown below, along with the nearby Fifes & Drums/Fairhill flute band (Fb)/Pride Of The Shore (Fb) tribute to QEII. The tarp was also seen last year: Remembrance Day.
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Wall Of Champions
“You earn your trophies at practice – you just pick them up at competitions.” The largest number among the honours on the left is 56, for the number of times Linfield has won the league.
“Monkstown true blues Linfield supporters club,” (Fb) “Follow your dreams – if you can dream it, you can become it.”
Cloyne Crescent, Monkstown, Newtownabbey.
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Close To the Bone
Two dog-friends dig up a treasure-trove of buried bones in the back of Whiteabbey car park on the old Shore Road. Below is just part of the very long nature mural below the fencing.
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Be Kind To Your Mind
The new ‘Listening Ear’ murals on the interior garden wall of the Dunanney Centre, Rathcoole, were launched at the start of November by David Healy and Roy McGivern of Linfield FC (Fb). The mental-health messages – “be kind to your mind”, “we are here to listen”, “mental health is a priority”, “#youmattertous” – join the existing ‘community garden’ mural (above) and there’s also a panel of blackboard paint for kids to write and draw on.
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Memory Lane
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” Work to clean up and beautify Devlin’s Lane in Whiteabbey began in 2020, with the large butterfly mural shown above (Belfast Live); 15 (16?) boards showing local history were put in place in August 2021 (NIWorld | Belfast Live). The text on the ‘White Abbey’ panel comes directly from WP.
The project was organised by Whiteabbey Residents’ Association, with funding from Translink – the alley (official name, Abbeyville Place) runs to Whiteabbey train station.
The ‘Justice4Noah’ and ‘Your best is good enough’ panels seem to have a different origin.
The panels are presented here from north to south, beginning with the western side:
The wall then switches to the eastern side of the alley:
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Cultural Expression
Part of the long community mural at the end of Blythe Street next to Blythefield primary has been repainted with these images children at play.
The tinkerbell wall and the final image is from the earlier mural – for which see Each One Teach One.
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