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Soldiers on horseback, the sound of a military drum or bugle, hundreds of men marching in uniform from their barracks. All of this was a common site in Ipswich for over 150 years when the town had a barracks, which occupied a site between Norwich Road, Anglesea Road, Berners Street and Orford Street. Several inscribed [...]
“A sound whipping across the back.” This is the entry in a school punishment book of May 30 1910. Was this the way to control some wild teenagers in a rough area of a city? No, it was at the tiny village school in Somersham, Suffolk.
Hundreds of families once lived in tiny packed streets where Cox lane car park is in the centre of Ipswich. The houses were demolished in the 1930s and families were moved from the poor housing to the new council houses built on the outskirts of town.
Fire ripped through St Michaels Church, Upper Orwell Street, Ipswich during the evening of March 7 2011. The building had stood derelict and was about to be restored as a £1 million Muslim run community centre. The building was not insured.
Memories of growing up in the centre of Ipswich in the 1930s near the towns prison, when the area also included many public houses and the town’s fire station.
It seems also that memories of mischievous events during school days are imprinted in our brains? If only we could remember historical dates, name all the capital cities or the rivers of the world, in the same clear way.
Horrors of seeing your home or business flooded is something thankfully most of us never experience. In the twentieth century the low areas of Ipswich were hit twice by flood water. In 1939 from inland and in 1953 from the sea.
What was life like for a child born towards the end of the Victorian era? Grace Rodwell (nee Herbert) was born March 14 1891.
Memories of starting life in Ipswich during tough economic times come from Alma Rayner (nee Smith) and Joan Read.
Bluesville. Oh, the memories of those great days of rhythm and blues at the Baths Hall or the Manor Ballroom, Ipswich, on a Monday night. Ron and Nanda Lesley brought to Ipswich the top names in live music for over fifteen years at the Baths Hall and The Manor Ballroom.
Ipswich - The Changing Face of the Town
The new book by David Kindred
Released on 20 October 11 in hardback. Photographs are grouped in themes showing how the town has changed in over 120 years. There are over 320 photographs, many in colour with detailed captions over 176 pages. More information available at Old Pond Publishing
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