Ipswich

Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk in East Anglia, England, and a local government district on the estuary of the River Orwell.

Modern Ipswich

Ipswich is still a flourishing port today, handling several million tonnes of cargo each year. The town used to feature a small grass-runway airport (ICAO code: EGSE) with regular flights to the Netherlands, but this has now been re-developed for housing.

Related Topics:
Cargo - ICAO - The Netherlands

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Modern figures with Ipswich connections include musician Nik Kershaw, the children's TV presenter Brian Cant, the punk rock band The Adicts, and cartoonist Carl Giles.

Related Topics:
Nik Kershaw - Brian Cant - Punk rock - The Adicts - Cartoonist - Carl Giles

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Tolly Cobbold Brewery, built in the 19th century and rebuilt 1894–1896, is one of the finest Victorian breweries in the United Kingdom. There has been a Cobbold Brewery in the town since 1746. Felix Thornley Cobbold presented Christchurch Mansion to the town in 1896.

Related Topics:
Tolly Cobbold - Victorian - Breweries - United Kingdom - 1746 - Felix Thornley Cobbold - Christchurch Mansion - 1896

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Ipswich Centre contains the all glass building owned by Willis Corroon, properly called the Willis Building but still often called the "Willis-Faber building" by locals, as the company Willis Corroon themselves used to be called Willis Faber. Designed by Norman Foster, the building dates from 1974. It become the youngest Grade I listed building in Britain in 1991, ironically standing right next to the oldest extant building in Ipswich, the Friends Meeting House.

Related Topics:
Willis Corroon - Willis Building - Norman Foster - 1974 - Listed building - 1991

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Ipswich is the last place in the area to have an independent bus company which has the unusual practice of naming its buses.

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Ipswich has undergone an extensive gentrification programme in recent years, principally centred around the waterfront. Though this has turned a run-down dock area into an emerging residential and commercial centre, it is being completed at the expense of much of the town's industrial and maritime heritage and in spite of efforts made by a local group, The Ipswich Society

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A new residential district to the southeast of Ipswich is Ravenswood, Ipswich.

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