Here’s an interesting piece of local colour about the Garden at the top of Wherstead Road, near Peppercorn Way. They’re called the HG Clarke Gardens, and although I live about five minutes away I never remember the nam. Hat tip to Comrade Ross (I credit my stories, unlike a certain councillor who copies the Tory [...]
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 Wherstead Road category
2 Mar 10
Ben Gummer in Wherstead Road
It’s election time, you can’t really escape politicians at the moment, at least I can’t.
The one particular politician that I can’t shake off is Ben Gummer. And as luck would have it he’ll be at Wherstead Road (the top end) at the The Shipwrights Arms, near the Starfish chip sjop, Colwill’s butcher and the Jorna restaurant. [...]
26 Feb 10
Route 66: We need collaboration
Dame Bryony Rudkin (it’s a matter of time, mark my words, so we better start using the title now) has been blessing us with her representative skills at the council and asked about the Wherstead Road route.
On a serious note we should not simply be asking why the route shut down, Suffolk will say it’s [...]
5 Feb 10
Bob Blastock, we need more like him
Bob Blastock is one of the people that you see everywhere. I first met him about five years ago when I went to a meeting of the Over Stoke history group. I wasn’t really that active in local politics at the time, confining myself to delivering a few leaflets and so I didn’t get to [...]
4 Feb 10
Wherstead Road needs a decent crossing
I was at the Wherstead Road Residents Association reporting the committee on what I’ve been doing on the buses and the noise yesterday and having almost got run over crossing the road it seems clear that the road needs a crossing.
This is something that the committee are clear on, in fact the Association has been [...]
26 Jan 10
A step towards decent buses on Wherstead Road
A pioneering agreement in Oxford may be able to offer hope to people on Wherstead Road. Wherstead Road is plagued by sporadic bus services, which would be far more tolerable if they were properly spaced out. Under typically stupid European Union rules this cannot be changed because there are a number of different operators on the [...]
25 Jan 10
The cement ship is in port
The cement ship has been spotted in port, coming in this morning. I noticed a hum at Belstead Avenue at 6.40 in the morning, but it wasn’t that intrusive.
If anyone else notices the hum, or doesn’t notice it, then it would be appreciated if you can let us know. This is going to be a [...]
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 [...]
5 Oct 09
Port Noise: The Meeting is tomorrow
I know it’s becoming old news for the regular readers, but the public meeting is coming up. We’ve been saying that the council don’t listen to us, well they are now. If you don’t turn up they’ll say that you’re not interested.
It’s rumoured that the BBC may have more listeners than this blog has readers, [...]
5 Oct 09
Moving Story
A lot of Tories were canvassing on Wherstead Road and Bostock Road yesterday and got most of the expected concerns, port and traffic noise and the buses – together with a new concern of parking.
You know how serious this port noise is getting when one of the people you talk to is in the process [...]
