My view was the barracks and pubs of Belfast - Just leaned how much I missed out on. Interesting to see your walk & Talk. Thanks for the memory. It triggered positive thoughts.
Delighted to see you visiting N. Ireland, LW. In recent years Holywood has perhaps become best known as being the hometown of golfing superstar Rory Mcilroy. Glad you caught the town on a sunny day. Great research and presentation, as ever 😁
An interesting travelogue, well produced and quite informative. However, as a "visitor" you would not be aware of some slight errors and omissions. The name Praeger is pronounced PRAYGUR, not PRYGER. You referred to Cultra almost as a single-syllable word, but it is in fact a two-syllable word pronounced as CUL TRAW, with the emphasis on TRAW. The original maypole was replaced with a newer, shorter version in around 1956, and was later found to have rotted considerably some years later. It was eventually replaced with the one you see now, which is even shorter again, so there have been at least three maypoles! One of the traditional customs was for local girls to dance around the maypole every year. It was stopped around 1953 for some obscure reason, but I understand has now been reinstituted. In the Ocean Restaurant, they have a mural on the wall which, taken from an old photograph, depicts a group of these young girls, one of them being my sister. I was born and raised on the Church Road, directly opposite what was the main entrance into an area known locally as "Murphy's Field," wherein stood the Holywood Motte. The motte was my playground throughout my childhood - when it was quite different to what it is now. I can tell you that the top of it was not of sufficient area to house a barn, never mind a castle, for its widest diameter was no more than about 15 or sixteen feet. Many locals believed that it was formed from the subsoil dug out for a building that was supposedly a monastery. I knew this buildinng very well, as one of its below-ground rooms was my nursery school. During the early 1950's, adults held ballroom dances in its main room - the entrance to it via an external grand flight of stairs leading up from ground level. At the front of the building stood two large fountains (non-functional in my time), with one of them filled with sand for the children to play in. I forgot to mention that the motte also had a full-size statuette in Greco-Roman style of a maiden carrying a pitcher or urn. This was vandalised some time after our family moved away in 1956. In Northern Ireland, Catholic churches are/were generally referred-to as "chapels" for some curious reason. Not more than 100 yards from where you started at Priory Graveyard, stands what is listed locally as the Martello Tower, which is probably a misnomer for an old watchtower - but nobody knows for sure. While you missed quite a number of Holywood's features, you did OK for a short video. It's always nice to have a visitor take special interest, so good one.
awesome sharing on this lovely place
My view was the barracks and pubs of Belfast - Just leaned how much I missed out on. Interesting to see your walk & Talk. Thanks for the memory. It triggered positive thoughts.
Delighted to see you visiting N. Ireland, LW. In recent years Holywood has perhaps become best known as being the hometown of golfing superstar Rory Mcilroy. Glad you caught the town on a sunny day. Great research and presentation, as ever 😁
An interesting travelogue, well produced and quite informative. However, as a "visitor" you would not be aware of some slight errors and omissions. The name Praeger is pronounced PRAYGUR, not PRYGER. You referred to Cultra almost as a single-syllable word, but it is in fact a two-syllable word pronounced as CUL TRAW, with the emphasis on TRAW.
The original maypole was replaced with a newer, shorter version in around 1956, and was later found to have rotted considerably some years later. It was eventually replaced with the one you see now, which is even shorter again, so there have been at least three maypoles! One of the traditional customs was for local girls to dance around the maypole every year. It was stopped around 1953 for some obscure reason, but I understand has now been reinstituted. In the Ocean Restaurant, they have a mural on the wall which, taken from an old photograph, depicts a group of these young girls, one of them being my sister.
I was born and raised on the Church Road, directly opposite what was the main entrance into an area known locally as "Murphy's Field," wherein stood the Holywood Motte. The motte was my playground throughout my childhood - when it was quite different to what it is now. I can tell you that the top of it was not of sufficient area to house a barn, never mind a castle, for its widest diameter was no more than about 15 or sixteen feet. Many locals believed that it was formed from the subsoil dug out for a building that was supposedly a monastery. I knew this buildinng very well, as one of its below-ground rooms was my nursery school. During the early 1950's, adults held ballroom dances in its main room - the entrance to it via an external grand flight of stairs leading up from ground level. At the front of the building stood two large fountains (non-functional in my time), with one of them filled with sand for the children to play in. I forgot to mention that the motte also had a full-size statuette in Greco-Roman style of a maiden carrying a pitcher or urn. This was vandalised some time after our family moved away in 1956.
In Northern Ireland, Catholic churches are/were generally referred-to as "chapels" for some curious reason.
Not more than 100 yards from where you started at Priory Graveyard, stands what is listed locally as the Martello Tower, which is probably a misnomer for an old watchtower - but nobody knows for sure.
While you missed quite a number of Holywood's features, you did OK for a short video. It's always nice to have a visitor take special interest, so good one.
Where is subtitles?😭
Cultra is pronounced Cul-traw