Match Sixteen – Ipswich 2 – Wolves 1
This was a cracking game, where Ipswich got another well deserved win.
The star of the Ipswich side was Daryl Murphy, who at the age of thirty-one is playing better than ever before in an Ipswich shirt.
It is often said that strikers can’t tackle! But Murphy can tackle and he can defend too.
In fact, his tackling got him the first goal, as he dispossessed one of the Wolves defenders in the penalty area and then blasted the ball into the top corner.
For the second goal he ran from deep onto a superb pass from David McGoldrick and then when the goalkeeper came out and spread himself, he chipped the ball neatly into the net.
He wouldn’t have done that last season!
The Guy Trying To Get To Ipswich Hospital
I know where things are in Ipswich very well, but I have no idea about the buses you get for a particular place.
Earlier in the day, a guy had asked me where he could catch a bus to the hospital. I said I didn’t know, so I pointed him in the direction of the bus station.
Whilst I was waiting for a friend to turn up for supper, I found myself on the main Tower Ramparts bus station. So I looked at this list of buses.
What Bus For The Hospital?
The hospital isn’t mentioned. There was also no-one to ask.
But then I was just walking to the football ground and then afterwards to the train. So I wasn’t bothered.
Wolsey’s Gate, Ipswich
Wolsey’s Gate is another of Ipswich’s Grade 1 Listed Buildings.
Wolsey’s Gate, Ipswich
It is hidden away in the Docks and is quite difficult to find. I remember the first time I found it with my mother, after we’d come in on the bus, to look at Ipswich. We’d been looking for the town centre and had walked the wrong way from the bus station. I think we went back soon afterwards and took a bus home.
Metier’s Buildings In Ipswich
These were Metier’s buildings in the Fore Street area of Ipswich.
Note that the major building we did up, has now been converted to apartments.
The Titanic, Ipswich
This was my nickname for the Odeon cinema in Ipswich which was built in 1991.
I gave it the nickname, as I thought it would never be a success and would sink as the ill-fated liner did. According to this report from the Ipswich Star it lasted until 2005.
C and I only ever saw one film in the cinema.
It’s all very sad!
St. Margaret’s Church In The Late Afternoon Sun
St.Margaret’s Church is another Ipswich’s Grade 1 Listed buildings.
I took the pictures in the late afternoon and I was trying to show how the light in Suffolk can cast interesting colours and shades.
Constable Also Did Portraits
It surprises a lot of people to know that John Constable painted portraits.
Constable Also Did Portraits
I think he painted three of these.
Christchurch Mansion and its art is good value st a free entry museum.
Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich
Christchurch Mansion is another of Ipswich’s Grade 1 Listed buildings.
Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich
One of the highlights of the museum is the paintings by John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough.
In the next few weeks one of the John Constable painting is going to be cleaned publicly. This could be a must-see event.
Is This Building Too Good For A Shop?
The Ancient House is one of Ipswich’s eleven Grade 1 Listed buildings.
The Ancient House, Ipswich
But is it too good to be shop?
The tenant incidentally is Lakeland, so it must be their grandest shop.
Ipswich To Felixstowe Has Improved
Over the last few months, I’ve travelled half a dozen times between Ipswich and Felixstowe by train.
I can’t remember a train being late at all, since the Bacon Factory Curve has been opened.
And here’s why!
A Freight Train Waiting On The Bacon Factory Curve
Note the freight train waiting for our one-coach Class 153 to pass. Before the curve opened the freight train would have had to go into Ipswich yard and the locomotive would have had to run-round to the other end, causing all sorts of disruption to the Great Eastern Main Line and especially the Felixstowe Branch.
Also now I noticed that trains coming out of Felixstowe and going South towards London, now sometimes seem to get their diesel locomotive changed for a Class 90 electric one.
The next improvement will come when more of the Felixstowe branch line is double-tracked and the whole branch is electrified.
It’s all a far cry from when I lived in Felixstowe in the 1960s, where the most reliable way to get between the two towns was to cycle along the A45 or A14 as it is now! There were only a handful of trains every day.
How many other places on the UK network need smaller improvements like the Bacon Factory Curve to be implemented?
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