A Heritage Open Day, Eye, Suffolk - 18th September 2022

There's a Heritage Open Day in Eye, which means that as well as a trail of buildings with old photos of how they used to be, there are a few things open that aren't normally - including the chapels in the cemetary, and the council chambers above the town hall. Before that, there's a round-up of randomness, including a trip to see Grandad in yet another hospital, a trip with Mick the Brick to the Cherry Tree at Yaxley, and the BSCC are out at the Ampersand Tap via the Burston Crown.

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The view from Grandad's 7th-floor room

The view from Grandad's 7th-floor room

Grandad's got his own room this time

Morrisons has a bit of a Queen tribute going on

Mick the Brick cycles off up the runway

Interesting clouds behind a wind turbine

There's an oversized Jenga stack on a table

It's a shock as Thrandeston pond has been drained

Finningham White Horse does half-mast over the top

Paul at Burston Crown

Phil and Gaz check their phones out

The bar at Ampersand Tap

There's a nice star pattern on a heritage tomato

In Eye town hall

Fred looks at model B-24 Liberators

Eye airfield during WWII

The boys roam around in the council chambers

A couple look at paintings on the wall

Harry and Fred are a bit bored already

Isobel in the council chambers

We head down the surprisingly long staircase

There's a cute and tiny Royal Mail van outside

Whant and Sons on Lowgate Street in the 1950s

Shurey and Son the butchers has moved to Stuston

Broad Street looking down Lowgate Street

A former shop on Castle Street

Fred's cubing in The Bank

In The Bank

A photo of The Bank when it was an actual bank

Harry's discovered tea

The café counter in The Bank

There's an art exhibition in The Bank

The boys have a cream tea

Pictures at an exhibition

A photo of the Midland Bank from the 1920s

The Eye volunteer centre on Magdalen Street

The Shazam chicken factory is recruiting

The old gasworks on Magdalen Street

The twin chapels of Eye Cemetary

The former C of E chapel

Inside the C of E chapel

Harry's bored as Fred cubes in a pew

The other chapel is a bit more derelict

There's a dead mouse in the pulpit

Dead leaves on a tiled floor

We head off back to Eye

Harry on the new boardwalk

Isobel points something out on Lambseth Street

An interesting spelling of 'do well'

The old school

The Victorian town hall in Eye

A Jeep hangs around outside the town hall

The fabric shop has a crown as a memorial

New houses go up down Dove Lane

There's a little shopping trolley in a skip

Quite a lot of render has fallen off the pharmacy

We wander past the Jeep

There's still a working phone in the K6 box