Weekend Misc: Abandoned Stuff, Ipswich, Heads and Flamenco - 22nd October 2005
A random weekend of abandoned artefacts around the edge of Diss, an African-style choir near the Town Hall in Ipswich and a ramble around the old Suffolk County Council buildings on Rope Walk: some of these have been leased over to the nearby Suffolk College (including St. Edmund House - the brick one, and the old staff club which is being turned into a Students' Union) whilst the rest are scheduled for sometime demolition (including a 30s classic in the shape of the old Social Service's building of St. Paul's House, and the 70s "temporary" building of St. Giles, which used to house the finance department, known as "Paymasters"). Then, on the way back, I stop off at the "Big Giant Head" - a carved oak head - just outside Eye, and later on The Boy Phil sorts out an evening of beer at the Cotton "Trowel and Hammer", where there's an unexpected flamenco night - just like Barcelona!
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Wrecked toilet, Sandy Lane, Diss. The flush probably doesn't work any more... |
A concrete service pipe laid end-on as a sort-of "anti-traveller" barrier |
Abandoned barbeque, left like all it needs is a firelighter and a sack of charcoal to get going. Sandy Lane, Diss |
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An African-style church choir entertain the crowds near the Cornhall in the middle of Ipswich |
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St. Edmund's House: Nosher's old place of work (1995-2000). Now sold/leased to Suffolk College |
The old SCC Staff Club |
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St. Giles House: originally built as a temporary structure in the 70s, and (naturally) still in use 30 years later |
Old rusted garbage compactor outside Suffolk Design and Print |
Glass-block wall in St. Paul's House, Rope Walk, Ipswich |
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St. Paul's back entrance, and Suffolk Design and Print's old portakabin |
St Paul's and St. Giles, Rope Walk |
The front of the 1930s classic St. Paul's |
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Building with graffiti, Rope Walk |
Eye Church, viewed over a meadow |
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Leafy lane |
The "Big Giant Head" outside Eye, Suffolk |
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Someone happens along to pound fence posts around a field |
Unexpected Flamenco night in the Trowel and Hammer pub, Cotton |
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Wavy, The Boy Phil and Bill |
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