The presentation at the town hall is ready
A Postcard from Felixstowe, Suffolk - 5th October 2022
It's Isobel's non-work day, so we decide to drive to Felixstowe, at the very end of the A14, for a wander around. We start at Landguard Point, next to the Port of Felixstowe and also home to Landguard Fort. Unfortunately, that's closed for a "maintenance day", so we drive to the beachfront and walk around from there. Whereas Great Yarmouth specialises in early Edwardian, Felixstowe's thing seems to be its range of 60s and 70s buildings, but despite this it turns out to be a nice town, only once visited before by Nosher in the 1990s for some sort of day course in a hotel. A week or two before that, there's a meeting at the Town Hall in Eye to discuss the lack of cycling provision in the area. There's a surprisingly good turnout, considering that as usual nothing much will happen as everything's tied up in nebulous "council schemes" for the next lifetime or so.
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Plans for possible cycle routes around Eye
A dude from British Cycling does a talk
There's a control tower on a factory
The massive Ever Golden at Felixstowe port
Isobel takes a photo of wooden stumps
A collection of wooden stumps on the shore
A juvenile gull sits on the beach
Languard Fort
The radar tower at the mouth of the Orwell estuary
An Evergreen ship docked at Felixstowe
Isobel leans into the wind
Isobel walks off the pontoon viewpoint
Some kind of TV interview is filmed
Isobel stomps into the wind
There's a large driftwood log on the shore
Brutalist concrete towers on Languard Fort
A tangle of grey dock cranes
A concrete lookout hut
A bench with some flowers
Landguard Fort is annoyingly closed for the day
Flags fly over the fort
The Fantasia amusement arcade on the seafront
We get an ice cream
Felixstowe pier
Amusement rides outside the pier
Isobel roams around in the amusement arcade
1960s apartments near the beach
The pier, contra jour
The grand frontage of Felixstowe Pier
A bit of 1950s glass surrounded by modernism
A pair of skeletons look out from a balcony
A 1970s classic Wilco motorist discount store
A fire escape that goes nowhere
The derelict Marlborough Hotel on the seafront
The hotel's derelict front entrance
The frontage of the Marlborough Hotel
The hotel has an optimistic 'LA Lounge Bar'
Shelters on the seafront
The 1930s Regal fish bar's clock is actually right
Grooveyard Record shop's front window
Isobel buys a record in the shop next door
Onion Records: a cool vinyl and CD shop
Felixstowe's High Street
A long-derelict Burton and Dorothy Perkins
Another 1960s building - now a Tesco Express
The old-school Palace Cinema and bingo
The view from our café stop
A bus, and the greengrocer next door
We have lunch at a café
Felixstowe even has a Wimpy
Isobel gets some Slimming World stuff in Iceland
A Victorian chip shop on Victoria Street
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The presentation at the town hall is ready
The presentation at the town hall is ready
Plans for possible cycle routes around Eye
A dude from British Cycling does a talk
There's a control tower on a factory
The massive Ever Golden at Felixstowe port
Isobel takes a photo of wooden stumps
A collection of wooden stumps on the shore
A juvenile gull sits on the beach
Languard Fort
The radar tower at the mouth of the Orwell estuary
An Evergreen ship docked at Felixstowe
Isobel leans into the wind
Isobel walks off the pontoon viewpoint
Some kind of TV interview is filmed
Isobel stomps into the wind
There's a large driftwood log on the shore
Brutalist concrete towers on Languard Fort
A tangle of grey dock cranes
A concrete lookout hut
A bench with some flowers
Landguard Fort is annoyingly closed for the day
Flags fly over the fort
The Fantasia amusement arcade on the seafront
We get an ice cream
Felixstowe pier
Amusement rides outside the pier
Isobel roams around in the amusement arcade
1960s apartments near the beach
The pier, contra jour
The grand frontage of Felixstowe Pier
A bit of 1950s glass surrounded by modernism
A pair of skeletons look out from a balcony
A 1970s classic Wilco motorist discount store
A fire escape that goes nowhere
The derelict Marlborough Hotel on the seafront
The hotel's derelict front entrance
The frontage of the Marlborough Hotel
The hotel has an optimistic 'LA Lounge Bar'
Shelters on the seafront
The 1930s Regal fish bar's clock is actually right
Grooveyard Record shop's front window
Isobel buys a record in the shop next door
Onion Records: a cool vinyl and CD shop
Felixstowe's High Street
A long-derelict Burton and Dorothy Perkins
Another 1960s building - now a Tesco Express
The old-school Palace Cinema and bingo
The view from our café stop
A bus, and the greengrocer next door
We have lunch at a café
Felixstowe even has a Wimpy
Isobel gets some Slimming World stuff in Iceland
A Victorian chip shop on Victoria Street