These images are from the Ravara Centre in Bangor. The cartoon characters (above) are probably by PENS (ig).
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Ravara
Bangor/Holywood
North Down UVF
Each quadrant of Down (north, south, east, west) gave rise to a battalion of Ulster Volunteers, and North Down comprised 15 companies, almost doubling the typical British-Army size of eight companies (History Ireland; see also another History Ireland article on the initially sporadic development of the Volunteers out of Unionist Clubs).
Upon the outbreak of the Great War, the Down volunteers joined the 13th battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles, which were assigned to the 108th brigade of the 36th Division of the British Army.
The mural shown in this entry is a recent repainting; the previous version was painted in 2017 (and originally c. 2007 – see M03697).
See also: Only A Few Minutes – a memorial mural to Bangor native James Samuel Davidson, of the 108th and a North Down volunteer.
Clandeboye Road, at the bottom of the Kilcooley estate.
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Welcome To Holywood
A “Holywood” sign is imagined in the Holywood hills, where a lone golfer is playing, above the First Presbyterian, the Tesco Express, Ned’s, and The Dirty Duck.
There is a signature in the bottom-right corner.
Church Street, Holywood
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Stop Ruining Art
Here is a galley of images of the street art from a November, 2023, jam in Bangor, from PENS (ig), Ana Fish (ig), FGB (ig), Soaring Tides (ig). There were also jams in April (Around Every Corner) and January 2023 (This Is Not The Same As Other Days). The wall is off Queen’s Parade in the Bangor Marine regeneration area (DfC | Bangor By The Sea).
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season of the bad guys
Anyone Can See
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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Rara Avis
This large parrot was painted by artist Visual Waste (ig) on the side-wall of the Ava wine-bar in Bangor to match the theme of its cocktail lounge.
The connection, if any, to the Dali-esque clock-face below the parrot is unclear.
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Fluusa
According to artist emic (ig) this is a portrayal of Fluusa. Fluusa was the goddess of flowers from the southern Italian culture of the Osci, who in Roman mythology is known as Flora (WP). The art is on the upper floor of The Grand Social (ig), in High Street, Bangor.
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Sand Dunes And Salty Air
Around Every Corner
April additions to the green off Queen’s Parade, Bangor, by Aoife Laverty (@saul_art42), Chop Suey (ig), artist unknown “Bright things around every corner”, Ana Fish (ig), and HM Constance (ig) ‘No Barking’.
For the adjacent art (to the left) from the January jam, and before, see This Is Not The Same As Other Days.
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