"The Savoy", Bangor
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"The Savoy", Bangor
Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 5 Apr 2012
Completed in 1932 as the Savoy Hotel, between the Donaghadee (left) and Hamilton Roads, to a design by Robert N Savage and extended and refaced the following year by John McBride Neill. The Savoy was undoubtedly one of the places for what we now call “package tours”. It was operated by Gaston’s and served a base for touring the north of Ireland. I have the “Gaston’s Tours” brochure for 1969 (the last year before the start of the bombing campaign). Guests were met “as they disembark from the Heysham and Liverpool steamers” or “on arrival at the air terminal at Gt Victoria Street, Belfast”. Accommodation for a seven-day stay with six coach tours cost £14-18 (depending on the season). It was fully licensed with 160 bedrooms, lounge bar, ballroom and resident orchestra. Now converted for residential use.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.662465
Longitude
-5.658923