• Advertisements

Building Developments

• Penrosgarnedd (Phase III)
• Wellfield Shopping Centre
  

• Artifacts (on the message board)

Journals & Magazines

• The Little World of Upper Bangor (Eric Reade)
• The Building News
• Dog at the Window keeps the thief at bay (Country Quest, Ivor E Davies)
• Bible Botany (Country Quest, E Emrys Jones)
• Cathedral in a Valley (Country Quest Very Rev. Gwynfryn Richards)
• Town Quest - Bangor (Country Quest)
• Dean Cotton (Country Quest, Idloes Owen)
• Sacked By the Saxons...[Bangor Cathedral] (Country Quest, Idloes Owen)
• Pioneering Bankers of Bangor (Country Quest, Idloes Owen)
• The Burgeoning of Bangor (Country Quest, Idloes Owen)
• The Old Inns of Bangor (Country Quest, Idloes Owen)
• Chapels in Bangor (Country Quest, Idloes Owen)
• Roots - a town called Bangor (Country Quest, Idloes Owen)
• The Black Monks of Bangor (Country Quest)
• Adventures in Art, make drab walls come alive - Ed Povey (Country Quest, Mart Nicholls)
• Bangor, The Lady with Three Faces - (Country Quest, Jean Ware)

Newspaper Articles

• Royal Visit to North Wales - College Ceremony & Tour
  (Thursday May 5th 1949 - The Conwy & North Wales Weekly News)

Indexes to Journals

• Transactions of the Caernarvonshire Historical Society
• Archaeologia Cambrensis Index (for Bangor)

• Interview with Mr Wyn-Jones (Length - 30min | Format - mp3 | Size - 39,203kb) by Terry Williams (Secretary of the Society) and Jean Forsyth (Mayor of Bangor 2009-2010). Mr Wyn-Jones was the photographer of the 'Development of Bangor' publication.
  

• Bangor Cathedral (1818) (Storer)
• Cofeb y Dewrion (Parch W.J Owen)
• Survey of the Cathedral Church of Bangor and the Edifices Belonging to it (1721) (Browne Willis)
• Australia Revisited in 1890, and Excursions in Egypt, Tasmania, and New Zealand: Being Extracts from the Diary of a Trip Round the World (1891) - Josiah Hughes
• The Welsh vocabulary of the Bangor district (1913) - Fynes-Clinton, Osbert Henry
• Church Plate of the Diocese of Bangor - E Alfred Jones 1906
• Handbook to the cathedrals of Wales: Llandaff.-St. David's.-St. Asaph.-Bangor (1887)
• The Cathedral Church of Bangor: An Account of Its Fabric and a Brief History ... (1907) Pearce B Ironside Bax
• The Life and Speeches of the Very Reverend J. H. Cotton, B.C.L., Dean of Bangor, and Rector of ... (1874) Author: John Henry Cotton , William Hughes Publisher: Nixon and Jarvis, Year: 1874
• Memorials of old north Wales (1913)

Travel Books/Guides

• A Tour Round North Wales - 1798 (Chapter VI pub 1800) (Rev Bingley)
• Gleanings in North Wales - 1854 (Bangor Section) (M L Louis)
• Blacks Picturesque Guide - 1858 (Bangor & Menai Bridge p43-48)
• Caernarvonshire, County Guide (1910)
• Murrays Hand-Book North Wales - 1885

• Tailor & Draper William LEWIS (1848)
• J BROWN Printer and Proprietor of the North Wales Chronicle (1838)
• Castle Hotel bill for a CHIDLEY staying in room 6 20-27 August (1963)
• Rhydwen Jones & Davies Ltd, House Furnishers, London House, High Street, Bangor Statement (10 Sept 1957)
• Receipt of sale of a Georgian Sideboard by I BALKIN Antiques of 30/2 Dean Street and 376/8 High Street (1949)
• Invoice - Queens Livery Stables, High Street 1906 for Bus & Horses for Assheton-Smith
• University Hall Receipts 1940 and 1942
• David Williams, Currier and Leather Merchant (Successor to the Late J Simon) High St 1880
• Josiah Hughes, Ironmonger 237 High Street 1880
• Walter Williams, Jeweller, 5 High Street 1927

• Pigot's Directory (1835)
• Robson's Directory (1841)
• Williams' Commercial Directory (1846)
• Slater's Directory (1850)
• Slater's Directory (1853)
• Slater's Directory (1856)
• Slater's Directory (1858/9)
• Slater's Directory (1868)
• Worrall's Directory of North Wales (1874)
• Carnarvonshire Postal Directory (1886) - more sections coming soon
• Sutton's Directory of North Wales (1890)
• Slater's Directory of North & Mid Wales (1895)
• Cope's North Wales & Chester Directory (1912)
• Wales Trade Directory (1948-49)

• Bangor Polling District Voting List (1879/80)
• Election of a Member (1851-52) - Bangor Township voting list
  
  Also of interest?
• List of Paupers in Receipt of Weekly Relief, June 24th 1881

• Williams' Sixpenny Guide to Bangor (1910s?)
• The Touring Centre of North Wales Illustrated (1920?)
• The Ancient and Historic City of Bangor (1950s)
  

• Bishops
• Beer / Brewery / Breweries and Pubs (Public Houses / Tavarns)
• Eisteddfod
• Mayors
• Photographers
• University Vice Chancellors
• Notes on Gorad Y Gyt (Merseyside Youth Hostel)

Building Schemes

• COPEC (Christian Order in Politics Economics and Citizenship) Social Housing Development - Seiriol Road
• The Bangor Copec Housing Scheme (article similar to above)
• The Development of Bangor (1935)
• Hirael Bay Feasability Study Consultation (1995)

Education (Higher)

Penryhn Arms

• 2 opening 'addresses' for the old science laboratories: Physical & Chemical & Biological
• Minutes of the University College of North Wales 1884 relating to the use of the Penrhyn Arms as temporary accommodation

Main Arts Building

• Opening of the Main Arts Building (1911) Program / Guidance for Guests / Ticket / Music / Souvenir
• Souvenir of the 1911 opening pdf
• The Magazine of UCNW (Extracts from - March 1911)

Deiniol Road Science Site

• The Wheldon Building
• New Science Buildings (Thoday, Wheldon, Doobie & Extensions)
• Bangoriad, 1971 (Building News section, Brambell Building)
• Elevation, Plan and Aerial Depiction of the Memorial Building, Science Site Deiniol Road
• Visit of HRH Prince of Wales, Official Proceedings (1923)

Students Union / Theatre Gwynedd

• Curved Lounge, Bangor University (Pochin)
• Theatre Gwynedd

Halls of Residence

• Neuadd Rathbone Halls of Residence (by the Warden)
• Neuadd Reichel Halls of Residence (by the Warden)
• College Playing Fields (Ffriddoedd)

Misc

• After Twenty-One Years - W Lewis Jones
• The College Old and New
• A Retrospective (of women in the College)
• Top College 1911-1961 (50 years old) - M L Clarke
• An Appeal for £250,000 UCNW (1960's Building Expansion)
• The University College of North Wales , Bangor (1930)
• Architectural History & Guide (to the University College of North Wales, Bangor) - M L Clarke 1966
• Ceremony of Installation of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth as Chancellor of the University of Wales - Pritchard Jones Hall, Bangor Thursday April 28. 1949.

Education (Teacher Training)

Normal College

• Report for the Year Ending July 31st 1905 Bangor Normal College (Includes list of all trainee teachers 1858-1905)
• Bangor Normal College article (1922)
• Normal College Handbook (1966)
• Normal College, College Societies (1929-1930 & 1930-1931)

St Marys College

• Coming Soon

Education (Junior & Secondary)

Friars School

• Report of Committee On Question of Site (Friars School)
• Friars School New Building - public meeting 18/03/1898
• Friars School Building Fund - May 1898

County School

• Bangor County School for Girls - Opening (1897)
• Bangor County School for Girls Magazine (1946)
• Proceedings at the formal opening of the County School for Girls & The University Hall (1897)

Central School

• The Centralian (Y Sentrelian Cylchgrawn Ysgol Ganol Bangor) 1936

Entertainment / Leisure / Culture / Transport

Bangor Pier

• Bangor Pier Centenary (1896 - 1996) A History of the Pier
• The Re-Opening of Bangor Pier (1988)
• Bangor Pier Restoration. An Appeal for £50,000
• Bangor Pier Centenary Celebrations, Program of Entertainment
• The Bangor Pier Question (Charles Lewis, 1893)

Misc.

• Castle Hotel Promotional Pamphlet
• The Bangor Dialectical Society (1897 - 1939)
• King George's Field Hirael - Photographic Brochure of the opening (1959)
• First Annual Open Show of the Cambrian Canine Society at the Riding School, Glynne Road, Bangor (1930)
• Menai Bridge Regatta (1953) - Bangor Section
• Bangor & Beaumaris Ferry.MV Nantlys Timetable (June 1976)
• Penrhyn Ladies Choir Concert (1903)

General / Misc

• The Progress of Bangor During 60 years (1833 -1893)
• The Development of Bangor (1935)
• Catalogue of Sale, 200 High Street Bangor (1897)
• British Legion, Anglesey & Caernarvonshire Handbook 1938 (Bangor Section)

Government & Services

• Borough of Bangor - List of Council, Committees, Officers &c. 1889-90
• The Charter of Incorporation of the City of Bangor
• The Proposed Incorporation of Bangor (1883)
• Reopening of the Town Hall (Bishops Palace) - 1962
• New Free Library (1907)
• Historical and Descriptive Account of the Bangor Waterworks from 1843 to 1897

Health & Welfare

• Rules of the Caernarvonshire and Anglesey Infirmary and Dispensary
• Bangor & Beaumaris Workhouse List of Paupers in receipt of weekly relief. (June 24th 1881)

Religion

• The Bible Garden (Tatham Whitehead's Booklet)
• St James' Church Upper Bangor (1955)

• 1899 - Borough of Bangor - Bye Laws - Good Rule & Government
  Prevention & Suppression of Nuisances
• 1847 vellum indenture Bicknell, Bangor & Chester & Holyhead Railway
• Rental Agreement, between Lynda Parry Pen Havodlas, Llanrug and Thomas Roberts for a property in Lon Pobty, Bangor 1865

• Letter from the Bishop of Bangor agreeing to lead Lords Prayer for £3-3- (March 1st 1848)
• Letter from the Headmaster of Friars School, to parents. (W. Glynn WILLIAMS dated 1881) regarding the late return of pupils to the school

• Listed Building Index (historical information on local listed buildings)
  • Grade I Listed Menai Suspension Bridge, Main Arts Building, Bangor Cathedral
  • Grade II* Listed Tan Yr Allt, Memorial Arch (Panels), Garth Pier
  • See all the grade II listed builings here

• John Speed's (1610)
• Bangor Ferry Map (1785)
• Ordnance Survey - Boundary Map (1831)
• Old Counties Map
• John Wood's (1834)
• Tithe Map (1840)
• Tithe Map of Ownership (1840)
• Tithe Map of Occupancy (1840)
• Tithe Map (1851)
• Penrhyn Port Map (1890)
• Locations of the Friary & Friars School (prior to 1900)
• A Banquet for the Chancellor (1902)
• Ordnance Survey (1905)
• Chapel Map (1936)
• City Guide Map (1940?s)
• Environs of Bangor (c1950)
• UCNWB College Estate Map (1959)
• UCNWB College Map (1970s)
• Tourist Map (1975)
  
• Diocese Map

• Cathedral Plan (from Storer 1818)
• Cathedral Plan (from Browne Willis 1721)
• Main Arts Building UCNWB - Hare's sketch of the 'complete' building
• Plan / Sketch of the Penlon Slate Works Hirael (former Jewsons nr Strand Street)
• Plan of King George's Field Hirael (Area)
• Plan of King George's Field Hirael (Original layout 1959)
• Plan of Tan-y-fonwent burial site converted to Garden of Rest
• Plan of the remains found of the Friary in Hirael 1898-1899
• Old UCNW science laboratories* & Ground Floor of 'Penrhyn Arms Hotel'
• Memorial Buildings, Deiniol Road
• Plan of minor works to Bangor Cathedral
• Plan of the St Seiriol and St Tudno steam ships which serviced the Liverpool - Menai Strait service inc Bangor Pier for a time.
  The Fleet (list of ships)

• Returns of Owners of Land (1873)
• Tithe Map of Ownership (1840)

¤ Old Photographs & CDV

Photogaphs
• Historic Picture Archive
  
  
• School of Agriculture & Forestry (Year Photographs 1928-1976)
• Police Station (Photographic Study prior to demolition)
  
  CDV/Cabinet Cards
  
• Misc Bangor Carte-de-Visite (CDV's) and Cabinet Cards
• CDV - Welsh Calvanistic Ministers (Taken by John Edmunds, City View Villa, Upper Bangor)
  

• Views from Bangor Mountain
• Bangor from the Air
  
  
• Bangor Colleges
• Bangor Pier - Double Card / Panorama

• Alexander Hogg engraving of Bangor Cathedral (1786)
• Alfred Summer's view from Bangor Mountain (1852)
• Also see Bangor Cathedral by Storer (1818) & Willis (1721)
• Bangor Pool and Upper Bangor
• Buck Brothers, South Wales View - Bangor Cathedral and town (1742)
• Crane, W view of Bangor (1839)
• Dibdin, Thomas view of Bangor (1865)
• Gastineau view from Bangor Mountain (1830)
• Hirael Bay with Penrhyn Arms in the background
• J Newman view from Bangor Mountain (1850) 1
• J Newman view from Bangor Mountain (1850) 2
• Daniell - Penrhyn Baths (1815)
• Market Day (Dodd, 1856)
• Penhryn Arms (1850 & 1900)
• Port Penrhyn and Bangor W. H. Bartlett (1841)
• Sandby, Paul View of Bangor (1776)
• G.P. Sargent view from Bangor Mountain (1841)
• Opening of the University College of North Wales: Procession of Trades
• Illustrated London News - The New College at Bangor (July 1907)
  
  
• Building News plate of former Bangor City Social Club Deiniol/Farrar Roads Side (1904)
  
• Building News plate of former Bangor City Social Club Deiniol/Farrar Roads Front (1904)
• Building News plate of Bangor Library (Elevation - 1907)
• Building News plate of Bangor Library (Plan - 1906)
• Building News plate of alternative design for Bangor Library (1906)

• Video can now be found in the Historic Picture Archive section of this site, just click here

• Cofeb y Dewrion
• Friars School War Memorial
• Memorial Arch Panels
• Memorial Arch Plaques
• Normal College War Memorial
• Sailors Institute Memorial (Penrhyn Port) - links to the forum
• War Memoral (WWII)
• University Plaques WWI & WWII (Main Arts PJ Hall)
  
  
• A Concert to raise funds for the Memorial Arch, Bangor - 1918
• List of supporters of Bangor Memorial

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