Wrecked toilet, Sandy Lane, Diss. The flush probably doesn't work any more
Abandoned Stuff, Suffolk County Council Dereliction and Flamenco, Ipswich and Cotton, Suffolk - 22nd October 2005
There's a random weekend of abandoned artefacts around the edge of Diss, an African-style choir near the Town Hall in Ipswich and a ramble around the old Suffolk County Council buildings on Rope Walk: some of these have been leased over to the nearby Suffolk College - including St. Edmund House and the old staff club which is allegedly being turned into a Students' Union - whilst the rest are scheduled for sometime demolition, including a 30s classic in the shape of the old Social Service's building of St. Paul's House, and the 70s "temporary" building of St. Giles, which used to house the finance department, known as Paymasters. Then, on the way back, there's a stop off at the Big Giant Head - a carved oak head on Cranley Green Road just outside Eye. Later on, The Boy Phil sorts out an evening of beer at the Cotton Trowel and Hammer, where there's an unexpected flamenco night - just like Barcelona, sort of.
next album: The 28th Norwich Beer Festival, St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich - 26th October 2005
previous album: The Magic Numbers, Scenes of Diss and Andrew Leaves Qualcomm, Diss and Cambridge - 15th October 2005
A concrete service pipe laid end-on as a sort-of 'anti-traveller' barrier
A pipe and standing water
Abandoned barbeque, left like all it needs is a firelighter and a sack of charcoal to get going
Crowds outside Burton in Ipswich
An African-style church choir entertain the crowds near the Cornhall in the middle of Ipswich
The choice outside the Cornhall
A bit of Djambe action
A small child joins in
Crowds mill around outside the Cornhall
St. Edmund's House: Nosher's old place of work
The old SCC Staff Club
St. Giles House: originally built as a temporary structure in the 70s, and (naturally) still in use 30 years later
Old rusted rubbish compactor outside Suffolk Design and Print
The entrance to what was Suffolk Design and Print
Glass-block wall in St. Paul's House, Rope Walk, Ipswich
St. Paul's back entrance, and Suffolk Design and Print's old portakabin
St Paul's and St. Giles, Rope Walk
The front of the 1930s classic St. Paul's
The car park outside St, Paul's
The entrance to St. Ed's car park
Building with graffiti, Rope Walk
Bollards outside the social club
A never-used car park attendant booth
Eye Church, viewed over a meadow
Leafy lane
The 'Big Giant Head' outside Eye, Suffolk
Someone happens along to pound fence posts around a field
Unexpected Flamenco night in the Trowel and Hammer pub, Cotton
Flamenco musicians
More dancing
Wavy, The Boy Phil and Bill
Someone else has a go
The percussionist has a word
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Wrecked toilet, Sandy Lane, Diss. The flush probably doesn't work any more
