The boarded-up Trowel and Hammer pub
Bike Rides and a Visit to the Farm Shop, Eye, Suffolk - 25th April 2023
It's time to start stretching out the bike rides, so it's back to the Gislingham/Cotton loop with a look at the sadly-closed-down Cotton Trowel and Hammer pub, and a new ride from Eye to Gislingham and back via Burgate, Redgrave, and Wortham. In between, we check out the new pop-up-style Fen Farm Dairy's farm shop on the edge of Eye Airfield, and there are also a couple of hastily-grabbed photos of an epic flypast right over the house. This turns out to be a practice run for the up-coming Coronation.
next album: The Lost Pubs of Diss, Norfolk - 26th April 2023
previous album: Palgrave Players and Weybread Canoes, Harleston - 16th April 2023
The sad sight of a closed-down pub in Cotton
Charlie's briefly behind the bar in the Yaxley Tree
Pablo the dachsund meets another dog
Lucy - the one-eyed cat - comes for a walk
The cat hesitates as we get too far out of range
Isobel heads to the old B1077 road
Someone has twatted the sound-proof fence
Isobel and Fred by the new farm shop
Fen Farm Dairy's pop-up-style shop
Some of the 1943 concrete runway
The village green in Burgate
Remains of the old A143 near Botesdale
The derelict water tower at New Waters
Derelict buildings at Magpie Green
A stone marks the Wortham Tithe War of 1934
The church of St. Mary the Virgin, Wortham
The nave of St. Mary the Virgin
The collapsed tower of the church
Nosher's bike leans by the lych gate
The closed-down former Dolphin pub in Wortham
Inside the Wortham Dolphin
The Dolphin's side room
A bit of the old A143, bypassed a few metres away
The Cherry Tree in Yaxley is up for lease
The new mega-estate off Castleton Way in Eye
Eye's first-ever roundabout on Castleton Way
A C-17 Globemaster and A400M fly over
A voyager followed by an RC-135W Rivet Joint
A squadron of Typhoons bring up the rear
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The boarded-up Trowel and Hammer pub
The boarded-up Trowel and Hammer pub
The sad sight of a closed-down pub in Cotton
Charlie's briefly behind the bar in the Yaxley Tree
Pablo the dachsund meets another dog
Lucy - the one-eyed cat - comes for a walk
The cat hesitates as we get too far out of range
Isobel heads to the old B1077 road
Someone has twatted the sound-proof fence
Isobel and Fred by the new farm shop
Fen Farm Dairy's pop-up-style shop
Some of the 1943 concrete runway
The village green in Burgate
Remains of the old A143 near Botesdale
The derelict water tower at New Waters
Derelict buildings at Magpie Green
A stone marks the Wortham Tithe War of 1934
The church of St. Mary the Virgin, Wortham
The nave of St. Mary the Virgin
The collapsed tower of the church
Nosher's bike leans by the lych gate
The closed-down former Dolphin pub in Wortham
Inside the Wortham Dolphin
The Dolphin's side room
A bit of the old A143, bypassed a few metres away
The Cherry Tree in Yaxley is up for lease
The new mega-estate off Castleton Way in Eye
Eye's first-ever roundabout on Castleton Way
A C-17 Globemaster and A400M fly over
A voyager followed by an RC-135W Rivet Joint
A squadron of Typhoons bring up the rear