Places to see in ( Newtownards - UK )
Places to see in ( Newtownards - UK )
Newtownards, is a large town, townland and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. Newtownards lies at the most northern tip of Strangford Lough, 10 miles east of Belfast, on the Ards Peninsula. Newtownards is situated in the civil parish of Newtownards and the historic baronies of Ards Lower and Castlereagh Lower. Newtownards is the largest town in the former Borough of Ards. It is known colloquially by locals as Ards.
The town of Newtownards is overlooked by the 100-foot (30 m) high Scrabo Tower. The tower is 41 metres high, and was erected as a memorial to Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, in recognition of his concern for the plight of his tenants during the great potato famine. It is open to the public and houses a historical and local environment exhibition. The basalt topped sandstone hill at Scrabo is one of the dominant features of north Down. The tower now stands tall in Scrabo Country Park with its woodland walks and parkland through Killynether Wood.
The Somme Heritage Centre, which is situated a little north of the town, is the Somme Association's flagship project. Situated adjacent to the Clandeboye Estate outside Newtownards, the centre is a unique visitor attraction of international significance showing the reality of the Great War and its effects on the community at home. The centre commemorates the involvement of the 36th (Ulster) and 16th (Irish) divisions in the Battle of the Somme, the 10th (Irish) Division in Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine and provides displays and information on the entire Irish contribution to the First World War.
The centre promotes cross-community contact, mutual understanding, an appreciation of cultural diversity, and is a major visitor attraction. The centre is built on ground provided by Ards Borough Council in what is to be the Whitespots Country Park. It is linked to Helen's Tower on the Clandeboye Estate via the Ulster Way. Historically, the 36th (Ulster) Division trained on the estate during the first few months of the war and German prisoners of war were interned there. A replica of Helen's Tower was built on the Somme battlefield as Northern Ireland's national war memorial.
On the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside Newtownards and near Greyabbey, stands Mount Stewart, an 18th-century house and garden – the home of the Londonderry family. The house and its contents reflect the history of the Londonderrys who played a leading role in British social and political life. The ninety-eight acre garden at Mount Stewart has been proposed as a UNESCO world heritage site. Largely created by Edith, Lady Londonderry, wife of the 7th Marquess, in the 1920s, it has an unrivalled collection of rare and unusual plants.
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Citybeat Young Star Search 2009 with easyJet : Ards Shopping Centre : Stevie Scott
Stevie Scott sings White Flag by Dido in Ards Shopping Centre on The Citybeat Young Star Search with easyJet, Northern Ireland's Most Loved Airline on 25th July 2009
Londonderry Park Demolition July 2014
Demolition work as part of the on-going re-development of Londonderry Park.
Visit: ards-council.gov.uk/londonderrypark
Santa
Ards Shopping Centre
Jodie Martin & the gang
Jodie & her friends in ards shopping centre on the catwalk doing gangnam style.
Bloomfield Sports Challenge
Bloomfield Shopping Centre held a well-attended community sports challenge on Saturday with local sports teams competing to win £2000 sponsorship.
10 local sports teams and clubs too part - age groups ranging from five to over 30 - with netball, hockey, diving and football teams involved.
Starting the day with a bang, Diving Academy NI took the lead in the first round of the quiz, nailing it on the Disney villain’s questions. Round two involved both cup flipping and cup stacking skills and the footballers had the upper hand. The event moved on to the rodeo bull round; the team from Holywood Ladies Hockey had obviously been training for this one as they set the record.
The rest of the day’s activities included more quiz rounds, building spaghetti and marshmallow towers, attempting to complete the After Eight challenge and a highly competitive game of Fluffy Bunnies. Ards Ladies Hockey may have set the new world record with 12 marshmallows.
All teams who took part on the day have been awarded £100 for their club to go towards sports equipment, maintenance of their club and grounds and travel costs for competitions and matches.
The overall winners of the £2,000 sponsorship after the final paints were added up was Diving Academy NI.
Brtain First counter protest Newtownards
As Britain First prepared for their first ever Northern Ireland meeting in Newtownards on Saturday, this counter demonstration took place which included local trade unionists and politicians. Britain First representatives declined to be interviewed or photographed.
Connswater Shopping Centre & Retail Park Fly Thru
This video is about Connswater Shopping Centre & retail Park Fly Thru
Portaferry - Entrance of Strangford Lough on Ards Peninsula
Portaferry County Down is a small port town that is at the narrow entry to Strangford Lough where a daily ferry connects the town with Strangford. The town is well known for its festivals.
Portaferry is a small town in county Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of Ards Peninsula, near the narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough. The atmosphere of this city might be different for being placed by the river and for being a fishing destination, but there are some other places which make Portaferry famous with them and thus tends to attract visitors all the time.
There is a marina in Portaferry that tends to carry around 500,000 people one mile across the sea to Strangford since this service operates daily at 15-minutes intervals (8am - 11pm), which stands as one of the important things that make highlight this small town. Portaferry also hosts its own small marina which is known as Portaferry marina.
The town centre of Portaferry has many old Georgian buildings along with Portaferry Castle, which is a 16th century tower, and which brings the history right into the mind and eyes of the tourist or visitor once he/she walks by them or even get the chance to get inside any of them. Even walking down the streets of this town and passing by all those different buildings is considered one of the things that one should do in Portaferry to experience it in exactly the right way.
Portaferry is known to be a popular location because of its wildlife and marine reserve which tends to attract lots of tourists and visitors to it, and that comes in addition to Exploris which is an aquarium; Exploris was opened by Ards Borough Council in 1987 and then it was extended and re-opened by prince Charles in 1994 and now it is under private management. Exploris is Northern Ireland's premier sanctuary and aquarium that features a huge walk-through tank and outdoor seal pools.
From the different places that one could check and visit in Portaferry, county Down, there are those which we have already mentioned and which include the transportation means that happens between Strangford and Portaferry, Exploris, as well as the 16th century old Portaferry Castle which is found there.
County Down is not just about Portaferry, but there are different places out there which one could discover in different cities and towns which are all placed in county Down. Kilbroney Park is one of the places located in county Down ( Newcastle is another destination with the famous Slieve Donard Hotel ( Donaghadee in county Down could also go on your list of places to visit in this county in Northern Ireland ( Bangor Harbour and Marina was another location we have visited in county Down and thus would recommend ( and that comes in addition to different other destinations that on the list of places that one could visit in county Down, Northern Ireland.
We walked through the town of Portaferry, we experienced the atmosphere of the whole place, we enjoyed our time by one of the cafes, and we got the chance to pass by those different attractions that mark this town and add to your memory when its name is mentioned. There are green spaces, there is water, there are old buildings and a castle; what else would you want to experience all in the same place?
Portaferry is not just a local place but it is also a touristic one for its beauty, history, wildlife and the other visitor attractions. One of those important attractions of the place is Strangford Lough which is the largest sea inlet in the British isles. Portaferry is actually Northern Ireland's first Marine Nature Reserve and is also renowned as an area of outstanding natural beauty and special scientific interest with six natural nature reserves within its reaches - Queen's University of Belfast have a Marine Research Laboratory on the shorefront and currently the town is also home to a tidal energy research project the Minesto Sea Kite.
There are over 2,000 species of marine animals which have been found in the Strangford Lough and internationally important flocks of wildfowl and wading birds converge there in winter, and it is also the most important site in Ireland for breeding common seals.
There are actually lots of things to be known and discovered about Portaferry even though it is considered a small town, but you could visit different touristic attractions in it and at the same time get the chance to experience the life by the lough and know more about its importance.
Have you ever got the chance to visit Portaferry in Northern Ireland before? If you had then share your experience with us and we would listen to all the comments as well.
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Christmas at Jervis Shopping Centre
Christmas time at Jervis Shopping Centre is a magical place to be! Park, Shop & Eat whist enjoying the best Christmas lights and decorations in town!!! Don't forget to visit Santa and Mrs Claus in their snowy grotto mountain!! Late night opening - For more info visit jervis.ie
Xmas bears
Xmas bears playing music in a shopping centre
Ards Rugby Club (part 3 of the Trilogy)
Mervyns new kiwi signing is on the way and everything is rosy, until...
Scrabo Tower Newtownards Co Down
Dominating the whole Newtownards skyline for miles. Providing panoramic views over Newtownards town, the aerodrome, Strangford Lough, the Irish Sea beyond to the Isle of Man and Scotland to the North and then down to the Mournes. Painted and photographed thousands of times is Scrabo Tower. ( Gaelic for cow pasture. )
Built in 1857 by the ordinary people of the area who wanted to pay tribute to their benefactor Charles William Vane the 3rd Marquis of Londonderry. This landowner and member of the gentry, unlike so many others was a very popular man who was known for his generosity and kindness. He had tried to alleviate hardship caused by the potatoe famine some years earlier.
The Tower cost £3000, a princely sum in those days! It is 125' high and the walls are 3' thick. It is built from igneous Dolomite stone quarried nearby and then finished or rendered with sandstone also quarried nearby.
The Tower was in McKay family use up until 1966 and was opened by them as a tea room. It is now open in the Summer when you can climb up it's 122 steps to take in the views from the top or spend time in the countryside Centre below. The lands around the Tower taking in Killynether wood and the two hidden treasure quarries below are marvellous wildlife havens and worth a visit in their own right.
It is not surprising then that the 'wild area' around Scrabo and in Killynether Wood has featured as one of the locations of the recently released (Oct 1 2014 ) Dracula Untold action/horror film made largey in Northern Ireland.based in a disused C&C, soft drinks, factory on the Castlereagh road!
Scrabo Tower Newtownards Northern Ireland April 2012
Newtownards RBL 3 - 2 Comber YM - 23 Mar 19
Billy Allen Memorial Shield
Semi Final
DAWFL
Londonderry Park
Escalator Woolworths Bangor
Fi ar escalator yn Woolworths
Britian First....spreading hate in Newtownards
Biffers are doing a leaflet drop to local properties to tell them about a mosque that is apparently so peaceful that even Golding didn’t know it was there.
Twats.
Carrick Ladies do Harlem Shake
Harlem shake
Mount Stewart Visitor Centre Greyabbey Co Down
My brother and his wife are over from England for our daughter's wedding so we headed out for a visit to historic 19th Century Mount Stewart House on the shores of Strangford Lough outside Greyabbey for a pre wedding treat.
This is the flora and fauna of Mount Stewart Visitor Centre you pass close to to enter the big house.
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Pipe Band Contest
City Square Dundee 12th May 2019