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Hazeldene Drive, BANGOR, BT20 4RE

The Donaghadee Road runs from the centre of Bangor to a roundabout on the ring road. You may then go straight ahead to Donaghadee via the High Donaghadee Road or turn left for Donaghadee by the coast road. This is the view towards the town centre.

See Image Fortunately this GR pillar box (BT20 519) has not been replaced and is still at the corner of the Donaghadee Road and Hazeldene Drive. Previously seen in December 2009 Image

Taken during the Covid-19 pandemic, a message in support of the NHS chalked onto a wall on the Donaghadee Road, Bangor

George V postbox on the corner of Hazeldene Drive and the Donaghadee Road in Bangor (BT20 519).

Cut bench mark on a wall on the Donaghadee Road in Bangor, close to the junction with Broadway. The mark is 16.57 metres above MSL. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=11037856 for many other examples I have found.

A site, on the Donaghadee Road almost opposite Manselton Close, offered for sale. The agents’ description includes the following “The consent was granted in full on 29 March 2009 (Ref: W/2007/1073/F) . . . . . . The site has the benefit of full planning permission for some 9 No. units, comprising 4 No. apartments (2 bed / 1 rec); 2 No. No. semi-detached (3 bed / 3 rec) and 3 No. townhouses (3 bed / 3 rec)”. This photograph appears as a matter of record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the sale.

Looking along Ward Avenue from the Donaghadee Road just after sunset.

A cul-de-sac, on the northern side of the Donaghadee Road, developed in the mid-1950’s.

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.