Bridge Ward News » Vernon Street

Bell Inn to be gutted

James Spencer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:42:18 +0000

The Bell Inn had the most Labour posters (3) of any building in Bridge Ward at the County Council elections. That’s a sad fact that I suspect a lot of people don’t know. A sadder fact is that we had as many Tory posters up. Two of the ward’s Labour councillors have larger houses than I do, and I’m sure they’ve put up loads of posters but as they don’t live in the ward they can’t enter this rather nerdy competition.

I wondered why this soon to be derelict pub would do that. I still don’t know.

However this ia a more interesting fact. The Bell Inn will be gutted and is applying to become a Sports Bar.

Bridge has Labour councillor Phil Smart on the planning committee. It will be interesting to see if he feels that he can vote on whether one of Labour’s biggest backers in Bridge should be able to gut the oldest pub in Ipswich to provide some godawful copy of the Drum & Monkey.

Change on the Public Meeting Venue

James Spencer — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:02:55 +0000

The Public meeting will now be at the IP-City centre at the top of Wherstead Road.

Ipswich Trams

James Spencer — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:03:00 +0000

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 Google cache, so please let me know if it stops being fresh).