Portaferry Consultation

Portaferry Heritage Trail Community Consultation Community Update

24th September 2019 at 7pm Portaferry Market House

Andrew Todd and Claire Dalton Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail Outcomes of previous community consultation Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail 2 New Portaferry Heritage Trail Guide based around existing Recommendations

1. Audio Stop Points 2. New Portaferry Heritage Trail Guide 3. Kid’s Trail Passport

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Portaferry Heritage Trail Target Audiences Community Consultation TargetTuesday 24 SeptemberAudiences 2019

PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019 PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED Portaferry Heritage Trail Implications for Portaferry Trail Development

Product features most likely to Experience Narrative appeal to the priority market • A relaxed and gentle pace • Tell human stories that are exciting and • Provide an easy-to-follow way inspiring, connecting into the ‘Time Depth segments (Great Escapers, to explore the area Encounters - feeding the mind’ supporting

Culturally Curious, RoI segments) • Create a sense of discovery with experience pillar identified in the ‘wow’ moments Integrated Strategy.

• Can be completed as an effortless • The major theme of the trail should be self-guided experience with minimum based on communicating the idea that support materials or human guidance. ‘the past is all around us in Portaferry’ • Tell stories that have an easily demonstrated Design/media physical starting point or hook in the townscape or surrounding landscape • Easy to access and use • Tell stories that interpret the townscape • Universal access to be taken and surrounding views in the context of into consideration a visit to a cultural landscape, highlighting • Ideally, Duration of experience not the historic and ongoing relationships to exceed 30 minutes between the landscape/seascape and the • Design should be sympathetic lives of the people to surroundings • Tell stories that celebrate particular • Use of compelling graphics and imagery individuals or moments in time from the past • Consider product name with consideration • Identify important viewpoints for of marketing - trail/network/discovery points. visitors, and emphasise their signiﬁcance through stories. Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail Current offering Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail Image Research Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019 Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019 Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail Characters Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019 PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED Portaferry Heritage Trail Characters

Alpthann or Amlaíb Captain James Pollock Mary Fitzsimmons Vikings in Strangford Lough Links to the quays, Connects to the busy port, Westgate, history of ship traders coming and going, There was a Viking settlement building, emigration to hospitality on Strangford Lough in the Additional Character late 870s. Canada, importing/exporting from a busy port. In 1901 Henry and Mary In 924 the Vikings of Strangford Fitzsimmons ran a boarding Mary Jane Witherspoon Lough killed the rígdamna (‘royal Sea captain, ship-owner and house in Ferry Street.They had Links to linen market, heir’) of Ulaid, but they lost ‘a merchant in early 19th century three boarders on the night of local industry, great sea-fleet’ on the bar of Portaferry. His ships full of the census, a tailor, a pedlar Presbyterian church Dundrum bay, 900 or more were passengers sailed from Portaferry and a barber. Two of their drowned. to Canada. Many of his ships were daughters were seamstresses, Mary Jane Witherspoon was built in Portaferry. He also sailed and their son living at home a 50 year old widow in 1901. from Scottish ports and from 926 they attacked Dunseverick William le Sauvage was a labourer. Henry died in She lived in Wind Mill Row on the Antrim coast, killing and Belfast. On one occasion in 1824 Links to the quay, castle, 1919 and his daughter Rose with her five children and capturing many. he was responsible for the rescue likely worked at Thomas market house, windmill, of some of the crew of the ‘Maria’ Anne Kellery kept running it as a boarding house. See census. Somerset’s factory, as 926 the Strangford fleet was ferry and the saltpans. of Milford. His own son Thomas a muslin embroiderer. under command of Alpthann, while in charge of the ‘Hibernia’ Her daughter Annie had son of Godfrid, and they moved William le Sauvage is the founder was lost on a voyage from Portaferry: Windows to the Past the same job, and her son to Annagassan to avoid attack by of the Savage dynasty in Ireland. Canada in 1825. Robert James was a tailor. Muirchertach mac Néill, who was He settled in County Down in Another son was a baker, Portaferry: Windows to the Past king of the northern Uí Néill. 1177 and was one of the twenty while her two children under Alpthann was killed by two knights (and 300 Anglo- 10 were still at school. The Muirchertach’s forces near Norman troops) who fought with family was Presbyterian Newry. These were moves to John de Courcy in 1176. He ‘won so would likely have create a regional kingdom on the with his swords lands which for worshipped at Portaferry’s east coast of Ulster. over seven hundred years have Presbyterian Church. remained in the possession of his In 933 Amlaíb and the fleet posterity’. De Courcy claimed at Strangford Lough raided large parts of the north-east. In Armagh, and in 936 he attacked 1180 de Courcy gave the abbey Clonmacnoise. 943 the at Downpatrick all the ferries he Strangford fleet was almost owned except the one at wiped out by local Irish forces. Strangford/Portaferry. Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail 2 New Portaferry Heritage Trail Guide based around existing Deliverables

1. Audio Stop Points 2. New Portaferry Heritage Trail Guide 3. Kid’s Trail Passport

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Portaferry Heritage Trail Site visit Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail Selected audio stops

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1. Portaferry Quay & Gatepost Statue 2. Portaferry Castle 3. Exploris & Ropewalk 4. Portaferry Market House 5. Portaferry Presbyterian Church (Portico) 6. Saltpans Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail

Portaferry Presbyterian Selected audio stops Church (Portico)

Exploris & Ropewalk

Saltpans

Portaferry Market House

Portaferry Castle

Portaferry Quay & Gatepost Statue Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail Selected Audio Stops

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Portaferry Heritage Trail Current offering

Audio Stops Guide Kid’s Trail Passport

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Portaferry Heritage Trail Exploris & Ropewalk

Existing Ropewalk panel

We suggest relocating these two panels (left) to this position (above) on the right hand side of the wall.

They will be further away from the Exploris promotional signage and have ample space in front for people to comfortably read the plaques

Existing Exploris panel Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail Deliverables 1

1. Audio Stops Handset & Web-Enabled Edition

• The audio trail will tell character-led engaging stories linked to the key heritage sites and viewpoints of Portaferry • It will complement the existing brass panels • Visitors will be able to borrow an audio handset or download content on their own devices 2 New Portaferry Heritage Trail Guide

2. New Portaferry Heritage Trail Guide

• Existing plaques and 20 numbered locations will be retained on existing illustrated map • Six designated locations will be treated in greater detail with character led stories and illustrations that go hand in hand with the audio stops

• To include historic photographs of key locations PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

3. Kid’s Trail Passport 3

Will concentrate on a smaller area with a simpliﬁed map:

Portaferry Quay Portaferry Castle Exploris & Ropewalk Portaferry Market House

• Illustrated characters will introduce fun facts about each location and prompt visitors to complete challenges

• Space for four rubbings relating to the four locations

• Rubbings will be added to existing plaques at four locations

PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Portaferry Heritage Trail

New addition to panels 4 Audio guide number Audio stops will be numbered and indicated in the bottom corner of the new panel sleeve

3 High-vis colour pop sleeve

Potentially a powder coated sleeve that will slide and ﬁx onto the existing bronze panels. Sprayed with a 1 Existing information high-vis colour pop

Existing information Please note the colour doesn’t represent our design intent. will be retained but rebalanced to add zinc rubbing and All six matching RALs will audio stop number. be instantly recognisable as part of the new audio stops and kids passport trail.

3 Wrapping round the existing panels like a sleeve

2 Zinc rubbing 2 4 Zinc rubbing of child friendly illustration related to each location. Community Consultation Tuesday 24 September 2019

Thank you