Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Places I have lived in the UK and sundry trivia snippets:
Trivia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich
http://www.bethesdaipswich.org.uk/page3.html
http://www.thekeyipswich.co.uk/History/history.htm http://www.stacey.peak-media.co.uk/Ipswich/Ipswich6FM/ipswich_2004.htm (LOTS of Pics of places in Ipswich UK)
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Suffolk/Ipswich-310829/TravelGuide-Ipswich.html
http://www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs/place/171
Ipswich centre of city...
Below: I am 'standing' on the left side of Fonnereau Rd (my street) and on the corner with the Bethesda Baptist church on my right and I am looking at my local pub "The Halberd" (now called PJ McGintys & Sons) across Northgate Street. My flat is behind me about 100 yards on the left if I were to make a 180 degree turn about and walk back up the hill.
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Now turned around looking the other way. I lived in that block of flats on the left. The Bethesda Church is *now* on the right (below).
http://www.stacey.peak-media.co.uk/Ipswich/Ipswich6FM/800ipfonnerau.JPG
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(Below) My flat on Fonnereau Rd was right about where the little girl is walking…
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Bethesda Church
9 St Margaret's Plain
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP4 2BB
9 St Margaret's Plain, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK IP4 2BB
The Bethesda church building is in St Margaret's Plain
at the bottom of Fonnereau Road. It is easily seen from the
central bus station on Crown Street.
The largest car park near to Bethesda is Charles Street Car Park. Charles Street
is reached either from Fonnereau Road or Neale Street, off from Crown Street.
| Location Map
My flat is on Fonnereau Road below:
Christchurch Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_Park was right across the street from my flat.
Here is what "Christchurch Mansion looks like (below and again it is right across the street from my flat):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Christchurch-Mansion.jpg
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36 Cliff Lane Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 0 UK
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#1 Ashmere Grove, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 2RU
PH Ipswich 258298
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I also lived at: 17 SPRING ROAD SPRING ROAD IPSWICH IP4 2RU
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More on the "Halberd Inn" Ipswich UK
PJ McGinty & Sons 15 Northgate Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom IP1 3BY
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF8&q=PJ+McGinty+%26+Sons+15+Northgate+Street,+Ipswich,+Suffolk,+United+Kingdom+IP1+3BY&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=0,0,17020829605606720429&ei=2kmHSrmBONu3twehjtjnDA&ll=52.059549,1.155925&spn=0.008219,0.022659&z=16
or try http://tinyurl.com/PJMcGinty
PJ McGinty & Sons
PJ McGinty & Sons is one of Ipswich`s oldest pubs. Formally known as The Halberd Inn, it is now Ipswich`s Irish pub with a reputation for great beer, spirits (of the drinkable and supernatural!) and good craic. PJ McGinty & Sons has recently launched a new live venue. Sean McGinty my friend here in Tampa will get a kick out of the 'new' name! 
http://www.myspace.com/pjmcginty
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More pics (past and present) of the Halberd Inn now known as...PJ McGinty & Sons http://www.myspace.com/pjmcgintys new page http://www.myspace.com/pjmcginty
http://www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs/pub/528
History of "The Halberd" http://suffolkvillages.com/Ipswich/Halberd.shtml
History of the pub and Ipswich http://www.archive.org/stream/illustrationsofo00glyduoft/illustrationsofo00glyduoft_djvu.txt
The Dove Inn Ipswich
76, St. Helens St, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 2LA http://www.dovestreetinn.co.uk/
Here is my website that may have some pics of me and the lads at "The Dove Inn" Ipswich during a Christmas Party:
http://lionsgoblet.com/IpswichLads/PaulShaneSteveDove.jpg
I am in middle (sans tooth after I had to teach someone some manners with a lady a week before. He learned
http://lionsgoblet.com/IpswichLads/
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http://lionsgoblet.com/IpswichLads/PaulAblett2.jpg
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Catchpole was born at
Nacton,
Suffolk, the daughter of Elizabeth Catchpole
[1] and Jonathan Catchpole, head ploughman. While barely more than a child she once rode bareback into
Ipswich to fetch a doctor, guiding the horse with a halter.
[2].
Catchpole had fallen in love with a sailor named William Laud, who had joined a band of smugglers; later he was pressed in to service in the navy
[2]. Laud was trying to persuade Catchpole to travel in a boat with him when another admirer of Margaret, John Barry, came to her assistance and a fight ensued, Barry was shot by Laud. Barry recovered, but a price was put on his Laud's head.
[2] Catchpole had little education and worked as a servant for different families until being employed by Mrs John Cobbold, wife of a wealthy
Ipswich brewer, as under-nurse and under-cook in May 1793. Here she was virtually part of the family and was responsible for saving the lives of children in her care three times. She also learned to read and write here.
[1] Criminal conviction
In mid-1795 Catchpole left the Cobbolds and became ill and was unemployed
[1]. After being told by a man named Cook that Laud was back in
London, Cook persuaded Catchpole to steal a horse and ride it to London to meet her former lover Cook's plan was to sell the horse for his own benefit
[2]. On the night of
23 May 1797 Catchpole stole John Cobbold's coach gelding and rode the horse 70 miles (110 km) to London in nine hours, but was promptly arrested for its theft and tried at Suffolk Summer Assizes
[1]. She pleaded guilty at her trial, and after evidence regarding her previous good character had been given, was asked if she had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon her. She spoke with firmness, regretting her fault but not praying for mercy. Even when the death sentence was pronounced she remained composed until she saw her old father crying in the court
[2]. Her sentence was commuted to transportation for seven years.
Catchpole was a model prisoner and set such a good example to the other prisoners that there was some hope of an early release. However, Catchpole discovered that Laud was a fellow prisoner. They succeeded in meeting, and Laud suggested a way of scaling the wall by using a clothesline or clothes horse and attaching a rope to one of the spikes. Catchpole had some money hidden, which Laud had given her some years before, and she arranged with a relative that part of this should be used to pay Laud's fine and thus free him. She succeeded in scaling the wall and met Laud, but they were intercepted on the seashore just as a boat was approaching to take them away. Laud fired on the authorities and was killed, and Margaret was taken back to prison. She was tried for gaol-breaking and again condemned to death. This sentence was, on the judge's recommendation, commuted to transportation to
New South Wales for life. She arrived in
Sydney on the
Nile on
15 December 1801.
[2]
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Pictures of The Margaret Catchpole
April 2009
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Picture of The Margaret Catchpole
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History of Ipswich UK
Under the Roman empire, the area around Ipswich formed an important route inland to rural towns and settlements via the Orwell and Gipping. [ citation needed] A large Roman fort, part of the coast defences of Britain, stood at Felixstowe (13 miles, 21 km), and the largest villa in Suffolk stood at Castle Hill (north-west Ipswich). [ citation needed]
Ipswich is one of England's oldest towns, [2][3] and took shape in Anglo-Saxon times as the main centre between York and London [ clarification needed] for North Sea trade to Scandinavia and the Rhine. It served the Kingdom of East Anglia, and began developing in the time of King Rædwald, supreme ruler of the English (616-624). The famous ship-burial and treasure at Sutton Hoo nearby (9 miles, 14.5 km) is probably his grave. The Ipswich Museum houses replicas of the Roman Mildenhall Treasure and the Sutton Hoo treasure. A gallery devoted to the town's origins includes Anglo-Saxon weapons, jewellery and other artefacts.
The seventh-century town, called 'Gippeswick' [4] was centred near the quay. Towards 700 AD, Frisian potters from the Netherlands area settled in Ipswich and set up the first large-scale potteries in England since Roman times. Their wares were traded far across England, and the industry was unique to Ipswich for 200 years. [5][6] With growing prosperity, in about 720 AD a large new part of the town was laid out in the Buttermarket area. Ipswich was becoming a place of national and international importance. [7] Parts of the ancient road plan still survive in its modern streets. After the invasion of 869 Ipswich fell under Viking rule. The earth ramparts circling the town centre were probably raised by Vikings in Ipswich around 900 to prevent its recapture by the English. [8][9] They were unsuccessful. The town operated a Mint under royal licence from King Edgar in the 970s, which continued through the Norman Conquest until the time of King John, in about 1215. [10] The abbreviation 'Gipes' appears on the coins.
King John granted the town its first charter in 1200, laying the mediaeval foundations of its modern civil government. [11] [12] In the next four centuries it made the most of its wealth, trading Suffolk cloth with the Continent. [ citation needed] Five large religious houses, including two Augustinian Priories (St Peter and St Paul, and Holy Trinity, both mid-12th century [13]), and those of the Greyfriars (Franciscans, before 1298), Ipswich Whitefriars (Carmelites founded 1278-79) and Blackfriars (Dominicans, before 1263), stood in mediaeval Ipswich. The last Carmelite Prior of Ipswich was the celebrated John Bale, author of the oldest English historical verse-drama (Kynge Johan, c.1538). [14] There were also several hospitals, including the leper hospital of St Mary Magdalene, founded before 1199. During the Middle Ages the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Grace was a famous pilgrimage destination, and attracted many pilgrims including Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. [15] [16] At the Reformation the statue was taken away to London to be burned, though some claim that it survived and is preserved at Nettuno, Italy. [17]
Around 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer satirised the merchants of Ipswich in the Canterbury Tales. Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, the son of a wealthy landowner, was born in Ipswich about 1475. One of Henry VIII's closest political allies, he founded a college in the town in 1528, which was for its brief duration one of the homes of the Ipswich School. [18] He remains one of the town's most famed figures.
In the time of Queen Mary the Ipswich Martyrs were burnt at the stake on the Cornhill for their Protestant beliefs. A monument commemorating this event now stands in Christchurch Park. From 1611 to 1634 Ipswich was a major centre for emigration to New England. This was encouraged by the Town Lecturer, Samuel Ward. His brother Nathaniel Ward was first minister of Ipswich, Massachusetts, where a promontory was named 'Castle Hill' after the place of that name in north-west Ipswich, UK.
The painter Thomas Gainsborough lived and worked in Ipswich. In 1835, Charles Dickens stayed in Ipswich and used it as a setting for scenes in his novel The Pickwick Papers. The hotel where he resided first opened in 1518; it was then known as The Tavern and is now known as the Great White Horse Hotel. Dickens made the hotel famous in chapter XXI of The Pickwick Papers, vividly describing the hotel's meandering corridors and stairs.
In 1824, Dr George Birkbeck, with support from several local businessmen, founded one of the first Mechanics' Institutes which survives to this day as the independent Ipswich Institute Reading Room and Library. The elegant 15 Tavern Street building has been the site of the Library since 1836.
In 1797 Lord and Lady Nelson moved to Ipswich, and in 1800 Lord Nelson was appointed High Steward of Ipswich.
In the mid-19th century Coprolite was discovered, the material was mined and then dissolved in acid, the resulting mixture forming the basis of Fisons fertilizer business. [19]
Ipswich's most historic hotel
Very attractive, yet not too expensive, this hotel has a fine pub and good accommodations. It's located in the very heart of the town. This is the most historic hotel in Ipswich. Even if you don't stay here, at least stop by the old pub for a drink. Its guests have included Queen Elizabeth I, King George II, Charles Dickens, and Lord Nelson.
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