Chain gang….

This wooden gavel plate sits on the Mayor’s desk in the Council Chamber at Bangor Castle - or Bangor City Hall.

Councils in Northern Ireland are big on recycling, so it’s no surprise to see this gavel plate on the Mayor’s desk in Bangor Castle. Indeed, the chains that our Mayors and Deputy Mayors have worn over the years all knew previous lives and perhaps not always what you might imagine.

In our next episode I have a wander through the Council Chamber at Bangor Castle (Bangor City Hall) with two former councillors - Ian Sinclair and Karen Douglas. The craic was great as they remembered their time there, serving their constituents and the whole Borough and talk did turn to the mayoral chains of office as Ian was a Deputy Mayor and Karen a Mayor…..