Banbridge

We ran round an empty building with mask and tape and fitted everything out and walked around to see how it worked.

So it's a bit like the way, like, you know, from the store in Banbridge, like I remember the walk-in wardrobe, OG, whatever.

no i remember that like i i have been coming to the walk and wardrobe since since it was that and and it's kind of the same we've been through such a transition our store was we're actually across three stores and three floors now do you know it started off as one we store 55 years ago and now we're like we've expanded either side and then like

well done

Over 3,000 miles separated them after Joseph's emigration to Canada.

from the family home in Banbridge, a town about 20 miles south of Belfast.

Although she had a large family still living with her in Ireland, Jane missed her emigrated child intensely, as did so many Irish mothers in the middle of the 1800s.

Mrs Scriven started to sicken with grief over Joseph's absence.

Jane Scriven came from an affluent family of lawyers in Dublin.

Joseph's poem to his mother focused on their shared sense of Christian faith.

Jane Scriven was an Anglican – her brother actually was an Anglican vicar serving in England – and in Banbridge, she and the rest of the Scriven family attended Holy Trinity Church C. Patrick, the local Church of Ireland parish church.

By the 1850s, the once strict lines of delineation between the different Protestant denominations had started to blur, where once it would have been something of a scandal for Church of Ireland congregants to have had much to do with Presbyterians, those particular boundaries of prejudice had largely evaporated thanks to the Act of Union.

The technology-led store includes robotic hangar sorters and radio frequency identification self-checkouts, taking lefties to 225 stores across 20 markets.

And Crocs will open its first Northern Ireland store at the boulevard in Banbridge in September.

Hollister will follow in October with its first outlet store on the island of Ireland and its second physical location in Northern Ireland.

Elsewhere, Primark opened its 500th store in Naples following an investment of almost £7 million.

And I nearly feel bad for them because I'm like... you know they're just getting thrown in at the deep end too they're doing a flipping brilliant job at it but you know what I'm trying to say I'm like they're loving it they've actually

became friends as well because I know one of the wee girls Gráinne who is so lovely she's my Gráinne's Gráinne and um she's loving it and to the point that I said to Gráinne Gráinne if this when this ends like we don't want to lose these wee girls like we don't want to keep them do you think they'll come to Banbridge because then you're like you know if they're from town it's very hard to get them to come to Banbridge if they don't drive or whatever So on the return side of that, I'm like, we need to hold on to these girls because they've been so lovely and they've all formed new friendships as well, which is lovely to see.

Which is so

lovely.

It also gave crews more mobility to tell stories from right around the country.

The six Miami bandsmen left the Castle Ballroom in Banbridge just before two this morning.

Brian Black reporting there from the aftermath of the Miami show band massacre in 1975.

One travelled north to visit friends in County Antrim.

The retailer plans to offer nearly 280 million shares, potentially raising around £1.3 billion, following unsuccessful attempts to list in the US and London amid regulatory scrutiny.

And in store expansion, Crocs plans to open an outlet at the Boulevard Retail Park in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.

A planning application has been submitted to refit an existing unit and remains under consultation, while the retail park has launched a trade-in promotion ahead of the proposed opening.

Elsewhere, Uniqlo will open its first Cambridge store in September, taking around 9,500 square feet at Grand Arcade.

I know.

Whereas when you're just in Banbridge, you literally go to work and come home from work.

You don't kind of go east or west.

Whereas if some, like lots of us now, I'll be down over the next few weeks working and just up and down Belfast generally.

They're ...

But n- I always think that's great we have club doing that, and they're having the ceremonial start on the Friday evening, Banbridge, at the, the Boulevard.

Like, Jesus, this, this event ticks so many boxes.

It does, and a fantastic opportunity.

Mm-hmm.

And then, you know, your sponsor on board now for a- another year now, Arkings, I think you have, like, they're so enthusiastic.

They're full square behind this as well too, and that has probably helped to open up the door then to the, The Boulevard in Banbridge too, which is in, like, we talk about, you know, ideal l- location to take a rally, to bring it to the people.

You couldn't get any more simple for that.

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When I was born my dad was the pastor of the Baptist Church in Banbridge and obviously missionaries came to the church and very often in those days they came to the manse for hospitality and I got to know missionaries as people, not just as people who were missionaries and special.

It was during those days that I first became aware of mission and so on.

And before we left Banbridge there was a lady from the church, Sadie Porter, who was joining Baptist Missions to go to Peru and the church hired a bus and took us all up to the port in Belfast to see her off.

Not just a flight to Peru but a long sea journey from Belfast to Liverpool, Liverpool to Lima and so on.

And I remember that night standing on the quayside in Belfast as the ships started to move out and we sang, God be with you till we meet again.