At one time, there were around 400 wooden holiday chalets in the Bangor area on coastal plots and lining our roads but most of them have now disappeared. This little yellow house in Groomsport has bee...

What makes us love Ward Park in Bangor County Down so much? And the launch of a special art exhibition in Park Life cafe!

On the opening night of Bangor Drama Club’s 90th birthday production of “Boyd’s Shop” Joan Smyth, Michael Ivers, Clare Greer and Linda Taylor share their hopes for the Club’s future.

Bangor Drama Club celebrates 90 years of entertaining audiences and producing stars of stage, screen and behind the scenes. I chatted to some of the members before there celebratory production of Boy’...

Denis Neill tells tales based on the final edition of the Bangor Street Directory published 55 years ago.

Tales from the people of Bangor on the shores of Belfast Lough, a podcast featuring their own voices, their own social history.

Gary McMahon collected some memories of an older Bangor for a dear friend and some years later, shared them with us at an Aspects Literary Festival event. I loved them and wanted to know more….

Little Bangor Stories was featured in Aspects 2025 with a wonderful event which included film clips from NI Screen’s Digital Film Archive. We were there to record some memories too and here they are. ...

At Little Bangor Stories at Aspects Festival, a visitor had a memory of the time Herbie visited Bangor - do you remember?

The second part of our look at the history of amateur football in Bangor, Co. Down

Part One of our “Game of Two Halves” It’s late summer now and the football season has begun again - from the Premier League to the many amateur soccer associations. To mark it I spoke to two super...

Next up on Little Bangor Stories – the history of amateur soccer in Bangor. In this little teaser my two pundits Peter Vannucci and Alan Dempster give a fascinating insight into just how intrepid and ...

A walk along Ballyholme Bay in Bangor with marine life campaigner Aileen McClenaghan…talking treasure, litter picking and how she believes even doing little things can help our big seas.

A walk through Castle Park woodland in Bangor Northern Ireland with Tree and Woodland Officer Dylan Freeburn while we talk about storms, succession planting, the most dangerous trees in the world and ...

A wander through Bangor’s beloved Castle Park with Tree and Woodland Officer Dylan Freeburn. It’s a teaser for the full episode and we talk about plans for the area, how volunteers could help and the ...

In 2024, Bangor Amateur Operatic Society was wound up. It was 106 years old, but having lost its base, the Little Theatre in Bangor’s Central Avenue, in the early 1990s, things became more and mo...

A bonus episode where Bangor Boat man Brian Meharg reflects on last good-byes and grand remembrance.

Bangor Boat man Brian Meharg tells tales of piloting open sea swimmers across the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland - including ham sandwiches and Orca!

This spring I was lucky to be able to take a walk through Bangor's glorious Walled Garden, with its creator Nicky Kerr.

Hooded crows….a danger to you plants…and tasty pastries..at Bangor’s Walled Garden.

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