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Bryansburn Gardens, BANGOR, BT20 3SF

The torch relay on the Bryansburn Road in Bangor. The torch arrives! A relay runner heads towards Bangor town centre. The men in grey running alongside are officers from the Metropolitan Police Service. According to the service: "As the host city police force, the Met will be providing a torch security team, who are responsible for the integrity, safety and security of the Olympic and Paralympic Flames and the torchbearer who is holding the Flame. A Torch Security Team will provide the immediate protection to the Flame and the torchbearer throughout the Relays."

The torch relay on the Bryansburn Road in Bangor. The torch arrives! A relay runner heads towards Bangor town centre. The man in grey running alongside is an officer from the Metropolitan Police Service. According to the service: "As the host city police force, the Met will be providing a torch security team, who are responsible for the integrity, safety and security of the Olympic and Paralympic Flames and the torchbearer who is holding the Flame. A Torch Security Team will provide the immediate protection to the Flame and the torchbearer throughout the Relays."

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.

See Image The same GR pillar box, at the Bryansburn Road end of Farnham Road, looking in the other direction.

The torch relay on the Bryansburn Road in Bangor. The torch arrives! Sandwiched in between the vehicles a change over of relay runners is taking place.

The torch relay on the Bryansburn Road in Bangor. About 10 minutes before the torch appears a cavalcade of official cars, buses, police and corporate sponsorship vehicles appears. This is one of around 8 PSNI motorcyclists who preceded the torch.

The torch relay on the Bryansburn Road in Bangor. About 10 minutes before the torch appears a cavalcade of official cars, buses, police and corporate sponsorship vehicles appears. This delightful charabanc got the bleary eyed residents "in the mood" by attacking them with a barrage of high decibel incoherent shouting and music.

The torch relay on the Bryansburn Road in Bangor. About 10 minutes before the torch appears a cavalcade of official cars, buses, police and corporate sponsorship vehicles appears.

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

George V postbox on Farnham Road in Bangor (BT20 407).