From the email.  Note that this is in day time:

Dear Forum Member/Area Resident

The next South West Ipswich Area Forum will be happening on:

South West Ipswich Area Forum

2010 at 11.00am

Bridge Ward Social Club – 68, Austin Street

We have an interesting discussion for you on this date.  Tibbs Pinter (Community Cohesion Co-ordinator, Ipswich Borough Council) will be leading a debate about the “Big Society”.  We need many of you to attend this as possible as we need your ideas to explore just what this new idea means to Ipswich Communities.

Bob Clench, Team Leader for Maintenance  (IBC – Highways and Construction) will be talking to you about the Winter Gritting programme as well as a new scheme that you may like to take part in.

The Police will be asking you to choose the Priorities in your ward via their interactive voting system.

As always, there will be the opportunity to chat with Officers, Councillors, partner agencies, neighbours and friends during the Info-Break and share your concerns.  As always, please bring your neighbours, friends, family.  So, come on, get involved and have your say.

Children are more than welcome to attend – we have activity sheets and coloured pens to keep them happy and occupied.  However, please note that because no crèche facilities are available children will have to be supervised by the adults they come with.

Yours sincerely

Val Peacock

(Community Development Officer)

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 actually built on the grounds of the old rectory.  He also pointed out, and this is far better known, that the station that Station Street was named after was actually on Croft Street where the EUR (Eastern Union Railway) pub kept the memory of the station until entertainment licences, smoking bans and the other nannying dictates of our modern state shut it down like so many other pubs.

Does anyone know of any other road names in the ward with an odd history?

Sorry for the short notice.  I got this through from Ipswich Buses:

Alan Pilbeam, MD of First is doing a presentation to the Ipswich Transport Society tonight at Bridge Ward Social Club in Austin St, at 1930. Public can attend for an entrance fee of £2.50
 
I will be there (although I’m coming from London so this will be at the mercy of the trains).  There should also be a couple of people from Wherstead Road who want to talk about the curtailing of Route 66.  If you’re coming then please email me at james@bridgeward.org.uk or find me at the meeting.

The Bridge Ward Social club will be hosting a meeting of the Ipswich Branch of the Railway Correspondance and Travel Society (RCTS) looking at the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway as was.  It will be on 14th September commencing at 7.30 pm.