IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Osborne Drive, BANGOR, BT20 3DH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Osborne Drive, BT20 3DH by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (111 Images Found)
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Distance
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Drain cover, Bangor
Drain cover located in a private driveway on Osborne Drive, Bangor (house vacant at time of photograph). It is marked "J.P. Corry and Co. Ltd., 28 Talbot Street, Belfast". This is an earlier version of modern covers such as Image and Image produced by J.P. Corry http://www.jpcorry.com/ .
James P. Corry & Co. was founded by Robert Corry in 1800. By 1826 he had established a timber importing business from Canada and began purchasing a number of sailing ships to travel to and from Ireland. They were ordering ships from Harland and Wolff as far back as 1860 - in fact the iron sailing ship 'Jane Porter' was the fourth vessel launched by the yard on 1st September 1860.
Talbot Street in Belfast now looks like this Image
Image: © Rossographer
Taken: 1 May 2016
0.04 miles
2
Postbox, Bangor
Post mounted Elizabeth II box on the Brunswick Road in Bangor (BT20 319).
Image: © Rossographer
Taken: 3 Mar 2010
0.07 miles
3
Bench Mark, Bangor
Cut bench mark located on north-western tip of St. Comgalls church on Brunswick Road in Bangor.
See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=11037856 for many other examples I have found.
Image: © Rossographer
Taken: 3 Mar 2010
0.08 miles
4
Assembly Election Poster, Bangor
Conal Browne, Social Democratic and Labour Party, at the Brunswick Road, Bangor.
Image: © Rossographer
Taken: 1 May 2016
0.09 miles
5
"PLC" fire hydrant cover, Bangor
See Image (April 2011). A similar product, without the “Vina” name, at the Bryansburn Road end of Windsor Avenue. See also Image (December 2011).
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 4 Dec 2012
0.09 miles
6
Brunswick Road, Bangor
A pleasant mainly residential area despite its close proximity to the town centre. This is the view towards the junction with Abbey Street/Belfast Road.
Image: © Rossographer
Taken: 20 Jan 2008
0.10 miles
7
Bench Mark, Bangor
Cut bench mark at the bottom of a wall around a house on the Bryansburn Road in Bangor. Located approximately 20 metres west of the junction with Farnham Road.
See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=11037856 for many other examples I have found.
Image: © Rossographer
Taken: 7 Mar 2010
0.11 miles
8
Windsor Park, Bangor
A narrow street, on the western side of the Manse Road (bottom) built, in the early 1930’s, on the site of what had once been allotments. The view is from Windsor Gardens Image
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 1 Oct 2013
0.11 miles
9
Pillar box, Bangor
See Image The same GR pillar box, at the Bryansburn Road end of Farnham Road, looking in the other direction.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 1 Dec 2011
0.11 miles
10
Old gas cover, Bangor
A small access cover marked 'Gas' located on Manse Road in Bangor. It almost certainly dates from when the town gas was produced and supplied in Bangor - this ended c1987.
The cover was cast by Hattersley and Davidson of Sheffield. This engineering company was established in 1894; the company still trades today as Hd Sports Ltd. http://www.hdsports.co.uk/hdsports-history.html but specialises in ice skating blades.
Image: © Rossographer
Taken: 2 May 2012
0.12 miles