The high porch entrance
A Day in Felixstowe, Suffolk - 11th April 2025
We're off to Felixstowe for a walk around, with a trip that starts with a surprise thanks to a roadwork diversion. It's the bizarre but interesting church of St. Andrew - built in the late 1920s in a traditional perpendicular style but almost entirely out of concrete, making it England's first ever reinforced concrete church in the process. After a look around, we then go on a mission for food, hoping for lunch at the Pinsa and Pasta restaurant on the sea front - Alba Chiara - only to find that it has tragically closed. That's followed by another long trek to find something else, which ends up with Prezzo at the other end of town. After that, we hang out on the beach for a bit, and then look around Onion Vinyl before the drive back.
previous album: The BSCC at Brockdish, and the SYWO at Holbrook - 10th April 2025
The nave of St. Andrew's
Blue light from the Clerestory windows
The walls are made entirely of windows
The only stained glass is the nave window
An aisle, and the church organ
Fred and Harry wander around
Outside, the church looks like a pumping station
Harry roams around the churchyard
Another view of the concrete church
We head off back to the car
A late-Victorian shop parade
A turn-of-the-century shop
Fred looks around in Felixstowe Emporium
There's an old Covid sign
A bank, which prosaically says 'bank'
Looking up Hamilton Road
A closed-down Chinese restaurant
Felixstowe's one and only night club
Walking down to Undercliff Road West
Gawdy shops on the seafront
Prezzo has some interesting jars on a table
Harry and Fred play Battleships
Another funky jar of stuff on the bar
The gang in Prezzo
The impressive Orwell Hotel
Felixstowe's railway station
On the platform at Felixstowe
The other platform - now isolated by a car park
Seagulls wait for left-over fish and chips
Old-school Victorian advertisement
Isobel and Harry in Prezzo
There's a bubble machine outside The Works
A very cool old Lotus is parked on the street
Isobel and Fred on the beach
Felixstowe's unused pier
Fred looks for interesting pebbles
Fred and Harry lob pebbles into the sea
Walking on the promenade
Isobel walks up Bent Hill
Fred looks at records in Onion Vinyl
Fred in Onion Vinyl
A mass of records and CDs
Isobel scopes at records
There's another retro Covid sign in the bog wall
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The high porch entrance
The high porch entrance
The nave of St. Andrew's
Blue light from the Clerestory windows
The walls are made entirely of windows
The only stained glass is the nave window
An aisle, and the church organ
Fred and Harry wander around
Outside, the church looks like a pumping station
Harry roams around the churchyard
Another view of the concrete church
We head off back to the car
A late-Victorian shop parade
A turn-of-the-century shop
Fred looks around in Felixstowe Emporium
There's an old Covid sign
A bank, which prosaically says 'bank'
Looking up Hamilton Road
A closed-down Chinese restaurant
Felixstowe's one and only night club
Walking down to Undercliff Road West
Gawdy shops on the seafront
Prezzo has some interesting jars on a table
Harry and Fred play Battleships
Another funky jar of stuff on the bar
The gang in Prezzo
The impressive Orwell Hotel
Felixstowe's railway station
On the platform at Felixstowe
The other platform - now isolated by a car park
Seagulls wait for left-over fish and chips
Old-school Victorian advertisement
Isobel and Harry in Prezzo
There's a bubble machine outside The Works
A very cool old Lotus is parked on the street
Isobel and Fred on the beach
Felixstowe's unused pier
Fred looks for interesting pebbles
Fred and Harry lob pebbles into the sea
Walking on the promenade
Isobel walks up Bent Hill
Fred looks at records in Onion Vinyl
Fred in Onion Vinyl
A mass of records and CDs
Isobel scopes at records
There's another retro Covid sign in the bog wall