By the time of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887, Bangor had begun its great period of growth into a premier residential town and seaside resort. The industrial facade of the cotton mills had long gone, and with improved rail and steamer connections, many now found it convenient to work in Belfast and live in one of the areas of new housing: Princetown Road, Bryansburn Road, Clifton Road - these and others were being developed as the town's population almost doubled from 3,006 in 1881 to 5,903 in 1901. The small town in which Robert Neill grew up, with its straggling streets and thatched cottages, had become substantially like the inner Bangor we know today.
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