Bob Blastock who, as well as being active in a bewildering variety of other local groups, is one of the leading lights in the Over Stoke History group, has told me that the rectory that Rectory Road was named after is actually where the Bridge Ward Social club is now, and that Rectory road was [...]
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 Rectory Road category
30 Nov 09
Rectory Road to Belstead Avenue
Well at last I’ve moved from Rectory Road to Belstead Avenue, I’m still in the ward though. I’ve made a lot of friends in Rectory Road and I will miss them (in fact as I was moving out I seemed to see most of them) but I’ve already made a few friends in Belstead Avenue [...]
11 Sep 09
Heritage Open Days in Ipswich
The Ipswich Society is organising some local building openings on Saturday. The timetable is here:
http://www.ipswichsociety.org.uk/events/
The only one I can see in Bridge is Saint Mary’s at Stoke church, which is two minutes away from me in Rectory Road.
Some nearby attractions that are open are:
The Willis Building
The Old Custom House
Unitarian Meeting House
St Mary At The Quay
St Peter’s Church
The [...]
24 Jul 09
Ipswich power cut
The electricity cut that caught those of us in Rectory Road (as well as Wherstead Road, Station Street and who knows where else) did not come on in our house until 1.30 pm because they had somehow managed to trip our power switch and we had to call out an electrician. Luckily we did not [...]
13 Jul 09
Nethaniah Home for the Aged
Another Photograph of Bridge, this one is particularly dear to me as it is around the corner from where I live.
Simon Knott (who does the excellent Suffolk Churches website) has also transcribed the plaques.
There is one correction, later on Simon says that he thinks that the pentecostalist church next door used to be St. Peter’s [...]
