My post on the Ipswich underground railway seems to be one of the biggest attractions for Google searchers.
In the hope that I can actually provide some genuine history to my readers, including those through Google, there were some rails through Bridge once, in the tram system, including Wherstead Road and Vernon Street. (This is a [...]
Bridge Ward News
News from Bridge Ward, Ipswich including the Hayes, Old Stoke, Prince of Wales Drive, Maidenhall Estate and Wherstead Road
Browsing the archives for the local history category
4 Aug 09
Ipswich Trams
31 Jul 09
Ipswich was once part of Stoke
St Mary Stoke was defined by the fact that until the Reformation it was owned by Ely Abbey, unlike the riff-raff over the river. I’m rereading Robert Malster’s “A History of Ipswich” and it says on page 10 that it was likely that the whole of Ipswich was owned by Ely Abbey. Then the Vikings [...]
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20 Jul 09
St Ethelreda
I’ve said before that the patron saint of Old Stoke should be Saint Ethelreda. Well here’s something that was written about the St. Ethelreda’s church in Wherstead Road.
16 Jul 09
The Ipswich Underground Railway in Bridge Ward
Right at the beginning of April 2007, intrepid local historian Simon Knott (of the Suffolk Churches website) decided to build a site devoted to the Ipswich Railway Station.
There are pictures of Halifax Quay, which is near the Bourne Bridge on Wherstead Road:
I do think Simon made one mistake, which was to ascribe the following to [...]
25 Jun 09
ipswich2006.com
This website covers the whole of Ipswich but is based on Old Stoke:
http://www.ipswich2006.com/
It has done an immense job of putting old photographs from the Stoke Park area. It is definately worth browsing, but be warned, it is addictive.
23 Jun 09
Happy Saint’s Day
Bridge Ward doesn’t have a patron saint, but if we did it would be Saint Ethelreda or as Æthelthryth, whose feast day is today. A royal princess, protege of the superstar Saxon bishop Saint Wilfrid and founder of the abbey at Ely (which became Ely Cathedral), her link to our side of Ipswich stems from the fact that from [...]
