Derelict buildings near Stoke Bridge
The Dereliction of Suffolk County Council, Ipswich, Suffolk - 3rd April 2012
Nosher's in Ipswich for a hair cut, but once that's done there's a bit of time to roam around town on the lookout for dereliction. A good source of this is Nosher's former place of work - the old Suffolk County Council HQ, or County Hall, around Rope Walk and St Helen's Street. It's scandalous to see the decay that's setting in to these once functional, vibrant and, in the case of St. Helen's Court, impressive buildings, for no particular reason other than presumably some building project that ran out of money. It's also unsettling in a existential/post-apocalyptic/28 Days Later style to see places actually worked in falling apart like this.
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A blue octopus, and some chromostereopsis
St. Nicholas Street, Ipswich
Funky street art on a boarded-up building
A market in Cornhill, Ipswich
The old Woolworth's building
The old co-operative building
The back of the Co-Operative Building in Ipswich
The burnt-out remains of St. Michael's Church
St. Michael's on Upper Orwell Street
The remains of Barnes of Ipswich Ltd on Upper Orwell Street
A ghost of the former Odeon sign
The former Odeon Cinema building
The wrecked clock tower of St Helen's Court
The 'World Food Store' on St Helen's Street
St. Michael's Church, from a car park
The corner of St. Helen's Street and Bond Street
The castle-like entrance of St. Helen's Court
The fire escape around the back of the main hall
The back of St. Helen's and the 'staff' entrance
The atrium entrance to the Council Chambers and the rest of Chief Execs, etc
A furnace chimney with 'St Helens' on it
The back of St. Andrew's - former home of Libraries & Heritage and Education
Smashed windows in the main hall
Another view of the burnt out remains of St. Michael's Church, as seen from Bond Street
The mostly glassless main window of St. Michael's
Wrecked buildings
Boarded up building on the corner of Grimwade Street and Rope Walk
St. Edmund House - the old County Council offices
The derelict remains of the SCC Social Club on Rope Walk
The steps up to the SCC Social Club
Funky new college buildings where the car park used to be
The old entrance to the Social Club is now in use as a homeless bedroom
The entrance to the former staff car park
The last vestiges of Suffolk County Council St. Edmund House - Nosher's old office
The Grimwade Street entrance to St. Andrew's
The barrier to St. Andrew's Grimwade Street entrance is a bit wrecked
Nature relaims the drive up past St. Andrew's
Relatively unscathed windows on St. Andrew House
St. Andrew's main entrance
A wrought iron gate
The front entrance to St. Andrew House is now a wino's hang-out
Boarded up doors, badly-drawn swasticas and rubble
A burned-out garage on Grimwade Street
A mostly-empty shop on St. Helen's Street
Boarded-up windows and a K6 phone box on St. Helen's Street
Heavily littered steps down to the basement
The former Odeon cinema
Back-of-a-building signage for Fresh Kebab
A last look at the old Co-op building
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Derelict buildings near Stoke Bridge
