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Nestling neath the shadows of the Mournes

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Built in the mid-1890s for the Girls Friendly Society of Ireland, it was originally known as the "House of Rest" and served as a home of rest for "sick and weary members".
    The society received Royal permission to name it the Queen Victoria Home in 1901.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    For sale in 2019, a write up in the Belfast Telegraph

    Says closed in 1954, became Glencairn guest house.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Streetview
  • Niall McAuley said:
    That BT article suggests Victoria herself visited in 1900, she did not.
  • Suck Diesel said:

    A later shot renamed Victoria Home

House of Rest, Bangor, Co. Down

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  • derangedlemur said:
    Here it is in colour: www.myhometown.ie/130/The_Girls_Home_of_Rest/1476.html
  • derangedlemur said:
    Possibly featured in the Newtonards Chronicle as "foundation stone of Seaside Home of Rest for Working Girls 19 Aug 1893"
  • Mike said:
    Here's the Wikipedia entry for the Girl's Friendly Society- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girls'_Friendly_Society , it sounds like it could be quite a useful organisation, even today!?
  • derangedlemur said:
    NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to the Statute 30 and 31 Vic. Cap. 54, that the above-named testator, by her Will, dated the 4th day of March, 1940, after a certain pecuniary bequest and payment of her debts, funeral and testamentary expenses, directed that one moiety of the residue of her estate should be paid to the Girls' Home of Rest at Bangor, Co. Down, in connection with the Cripples' Institute, People's Palace and Home of Rest, and the remaining moiety to the Old Age Fund of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
  • derangedlemur said:
    eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/21026/eppi_pages/582743 They got £50, 5, - off the government to run the place in 1905, apparently.