There’s no meeting of the Maidenhall Residents’ Association today as the second Thursday of the month clashes with a South West Area housing panel meeting.
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 Maidenhall Estate category
17 Feb 10
Oh no, hide: Maidenhall Estate’s message to Brown
It really should go without saying that a three year old should have more sense than a Labour MP.
The Evening Star have a very funny story about a young boy trying to give the sagest advice that Chris Mole will ever get about what his election campaign should do with Gordon Brown. ”Oh no. Hide“. [...]
28 Dec 09
How will the bus sell off affect Bridge Ward?
Ipswich Council is in talks to sell off Ipswich Buses to the Go Ahead group. No doubt certain councillors who never use the buses (or live in the ward) are preparing their leaflets now. It’s a good thing I’m not standing as a Conservative in the next Borough elections. Oh wait, I am.
The truth is [...]
10 Nov 09
Ben Gummer at the Maidenhall Residents Association
Just a reminder that Ben Gummer will be addressing the Maidenhall Residents’ Association this Thursday 12th November at the Bowls Pavillion off Halifax Road (opposite the Bourne Vale Social Club).
12 Oct 09
Date for your diary: Ben Gummer in the Maidenhall Estate
Ben Gummer will be addressing the Maidenhall Residents’ Association on Thursday 12th November at the Bowls Pavillion off Halifax Road (opposite the Bourne Vale Social Club). Here’s the map on Google and if you have a sat nav the postcode is IP2 8RE. The meeting will start at 7pm, and Ben will be [...]
9 Oct 09
Maidenhall Estate: One size does not fit all
I was at the Maidenhall Residents Association yesterday and they have been a victim of typical bureaucratic heavy handed over-reaction. Essentially due to out of area drug users sheltering in the flats in Station Street they’ve cut the trade access to all the flats across the ward.
This makes sense near the town, for example Station [...]
21 Aug 09
A Phil Smart attitude towards cars
Our councillor Phil Smart appears in the Evening Star saying that “The solution to traffic congestion is through better traffic management and the reduction of demand through better public transport.”
This is all very worthy. However when I was at the Maidenhall Residents Association there were only two people who did not walk to this very [...]
28 Jul 09
Stoke Green Baptist church
Another photo of Bridge, this time it’s the Stoke Green Baptist church, where Maidenhall Hall approach meets Halifax Road:
One thing that is fascinating about this congregation is that they are one of the oldest non-conformist cogregations in Ipswich, but unlike the Unitarians in St Nicholas street it doesn’t get on the tourist trail.
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 [...]
