Alphabetical street guide (Ipswich only)
to
lettering examples on the Ipswich
Historical Lettering website.
Alan Road ('Hope Mews' gates)
Alan Road (Methodist
church plaques)
Alan Road (street nameplate)
55-57 Alan Road ('Regent Terrace 1875
J.J. Head. Builder')
Albion Hill (part of Woodbridge Road)
Albion Quay (blue street nameplate)
Albion Street 1817 (now John Street)
Alf Ramsey Way (ITFC)
Alpe Street ('Morpeth Villa 1876')
Alston Road (street nameplate)
14-20 Alston Road ('Alston
Cottages')
17-23 Alston Road
('Woolpit Cottages 1877')
25-31 Alston Road
('Gestingthorpe Cottages 1895')
30-36 Alston Road
('Aberdeen Cottages 1876')
33-39 Alston Road
('Ebeneezer Cottages')
34-54 Alston Road
('East End Terrace 1875/8 [obscured]')
41-45
Alston Road ('Olive Villas')
55-61 Alston Road
('Winterbourne Cottages 1879')
Ancaster Road ('Gippeswyk
Park')
1 Anglesea Road
('Newark Lodge')
Anglesea Road Hospital (lost
signs)
Ann Street (a hat shop sign)
5-9 Arcade Street ('1903,
1904' rain
hoppers)
Argyle Street ('A.E.
Blasby')
Argyle Street ('Harry...')
Argyle Street ('Ipswich Board School')
Argyle Street/St Helen's Street corner ('IBH')
Arras Square (street nameplate), St Stephens Lane
Arthur's Terrace (street nameplate)
4-6 Ashmere
Grove ('Spring Villas')
Austin Street ('Bridgeward Club')
89 Austin Street (Vernon Street
Co-op)
Back Hamlet (Holy Trinity Church)
78 Back Hamlet (Trinity Lodge)
100 Back Hamlet ('Park View')
Trinity Works, Back Hamlet ('Teeangee',
Titchmarsh & Goodwin Borough coat of arms)
Back Hamlet (St Clement's
Congregational Church)
Back Hamlet ('Wm. Paul Tenement Trust')
Ballast Wharf Walk (street nameplate)
Baronsdale
Close (street
nameplate)
Barrack Lane (Ipswich Barracks
gateposts)
Bell Lane (The Old Bell)
6-8 Belle Vue
Road ('Hillside Villas 1891')
22-24 Belle Vue Road ('Valley-View
Villas 1891')
27-29 Belle
Vue Road ('Southfleet
Villas')
30 Belle Vue Road ('Plemont
1896')
31-33 Belle Vue
Road ('Byculla
Villas 1893')
40 Belle Vue Road ('May
Villas 1893')
43-45 Belle Vue Road ('Florence
Terrace 1891')
50-52 Belle Vue Road ('Ivy
Villas 1891')
55-57 Belle Vue Road ('La Belle Villas 1891')
58-60 Belle Vue Road ('Viaduct
Terrace 1891')
70 Belle Vue Road, ('Nankin
Villa')
72 Belle Vue Road, ('Agra
Villa')
79-81 Belle Vue Road ('Claremont Terrace 1891')
91 Belle Vue Road ('Carrefour Selous 1893')
99-101 Belle Vue Road ('Silverdale Terrace')
107-109 Belle Vue Road ('Warton Terrace')
117 Belle Vue Road
(Russell 'Villas')
2 Belstead Road ('Kirby Cottage')
66 Belstead Road ('Tumbricane')
12 Belvedere Road ('Parade Field Terrace')
Belvedere
Road (numbered rail bridge)
Benezet Street (A.A. Gibbons mills)
Benezet Street (Slavery
abolitionists)
Bishops Hill ('Bishops Hill', close to
junction with Rosehill Crescent)
Bishops Hill ('Holywells Park' plaque)
39 Bishops Hill
('Upland Gate' vernacular lettering)
Black Horse Lane ('Wm.
Paul Tenements
Trust 1928')
Black Horse Lane ('Bretts')
23 Black Horse Lane ('The Black Horse')
Bolton Lane, St Margaret's
Church Centre, Garratt
Memorial Hall ('1632'), Gainsborough House
5-7 Bolton Lane ('1895')
36 Bolton Lane ('Bolton Lane Social Club
& Institute')
38 Bolton Lane (Bishop & Son, Organ Builders')
40 Bolton Lane (The Wrestlers: '1667')
72 Bolton Lane ('1904')
Bolton Lane/St Margaret's Green (street
nameplates)
Bond Street ('The Black
Barn', 'St
Michael's
Works')
Bostock Road
(street nameplate)
5-7 Bostock Road
('Bloomfield's Villas')
6-8 Bostock Road
('Randall's Villas')
14-16 Bostock Road
('Sporle's Villas')
15-17 Bostock Road
('Chilver's Villas')
27-28 Bostock Road
('Dashwood's Villas')
37 Bond Street ('Ragged Girls
School')
Bourne Park / Bourne Bridge
Bramford Lane rail
bridge
Bramford Lane (St Thomas
Church foundation stone)
135 Bramford Lane
('Claydon Hall Dairy'
- corner
with Hampton Road)
196-198 Bramford
Lane ('Persevering
Terrace 1878')
203 Bramford Lane
(Co-op 'BUILT 1904')
216-218 Bramford Lane ('Omdurman
Cottages 1899')
230-232 Bramford Lane ('Baden-Powell Cottages')
Bramford Road ('Rose
&
Crown Brewery' -
rear of 77 Norwich Road)
Bramford Road (corner of Gatacre Road: '
Bramford
Road School')
Bramford Road rail bridge
111 Bramford Road (huge numerals)
113 Bramford Road ('Hovis')
119 Bramford Road ('W.B. Kerridge')
184 Bramford Road ('Nestles Milk: Richest In
Cream')
205-207 Bramford Road ('Cumberland Terrace
1877')
238 Bramford Road ('Wines, Ales &
Stout...')
248 Bramford Road ('Long Reign')
252 Bramford Road ('Belmont Villa 1895')
254 Bramford Road ('Mishama House 1897')
256 Bramford Road ('Zagazig House 1894
')
284 Bramford Road (former 'Tolly
Ales' on The
Red Lion)
318-318 Bramford Road, ('Birkett's Terrace,
1912')
328 Bramford Road ('AD
1883')
336 Bramford Road ('Pleasant Villas,
1884, R.S.')
345-347 Bramford Road
('Grosvenor Villas, F.L.S. 1899')
360 Bramford Road ('Tel El Kebir Cottage,
1891')
389-391 Bramford Road ('Cornfield, F.L.S.
1897')
427-429 Bramford Road ('Constantine Terrace
F.L.S. 1898.')
443 Bramford Road ('Commercial Buildings, AD 1879')
467-469 Bramford Road ('Prospect Cottages,
1878')
476-478 Bramford Road ('Shafto Terrace, FLS
1914')
522-524 Bramford Road ('Thompson's Dwellings, 1927')
537 Bramford Road ('Thirza, 1927')
590-592 Bramford Road ('Bosmere Terrace')
710-712 Bramford Road ('Wilson's Dwellings, 1928')
Bridge Street (lost street nameplate)
Bridge Street (modern street nameplate)
Bridge Street (near Stoke Bridge)
Bridge Street (The Old Bell)
Bridge Street (K6 Telephone Box)
Bridge Street (Stoke Bridge)
Bridge Street ('Trinity House' buoy)
Brooks Hall Road ('Brookeshall Road'), 1884
map
Brooks Hall Road (street nameplate)
5-7 Broom Hill Road ('Orford Villas, FLS 1903')
17-19 Broom
Hill Road ('Graham Villas,
FLS 1903')
20-22 Broom Hill Road ('Wannock Glen')
20-22 Broom Hill Road ('Castle Rock')
34 Broom Hill Road ('Belgrave Villa')
29-31 Broom Hill Road ('Grove Terrace,
FLS 1904')
53-55 Broom Hill Road ('Maple
Terrace, FLS 1904')
54 Broom Hill Road ('Alandale')
56 Broom Hill Road ('Clovelley')
60 Broom Hill Road ('Edgehill')
64 Broom Hill Road ('Ashley House')
65-67 Broom
Hill Road ('Pine Terrace,
FLS 1905[?]')
Bruff Road (street nameplate)
171 Brunswick Road ('Brunswick Road Post
Office'; 'Chas: West')
Bulstrode Road (street
nameplate)
9 Burlington Road (Hollanden House)
11-13 Burlington Road ('Plantation
House 1872')
Burlington Road
(Slavery
abolitionists)
1 Butter Market ('G')
21
Butter Market (Butter
Market Chambers and vestiges)
24A
Butter Market
('M...' also '... SON')
22 Butter Market ('F.C. Hunnibell & Son
[partial])
30 Butter Market (Ancient House)
40-44 Butter Market ('1994 AD')
54 Butter Market ('1900')
47 Camden Road ('Try Woottons Cure
for Corns')
Canham Street (street nameplate)
Cardigan Street (St Jude's Brewery '1789')
1-3a Carr Street ('1822')
6-8 Carr Street ('Alfred Coe Builder')
18 Carr Street ('Sennitt's')
26-32 Carr Street
('Woolworths' at rear)
48-68 Carr Street ('Each
For All...'- Co-op InStore)
70 Carr Street ('Temptation' gates; old
Beehive pub)
Cauldwell
Hall Road (range
of house name plaques)
Cavendish Street (range
of house name plaques)
off Cemetery
Lane ('Temple of Remembrance')
Chantry Park
Chapman Lane (street nameplate)
Charles Court (off Upper Orwell Street:
vestigial street sign)
Charles Street gate ('Round Table')
Charles
Street ('H.H. Near...')
Chevallier Street (street nameplate)
Chevallier Street
('IHC' on All Saints Church)
Chevallier
Street/Waterloo Road
('Thornley
Place.')
Christchurch Mansion/Wolsey Art Gallery (Borough
crests)
Christchurch
Mansion/Wolsey Art Gallery ('Wolsey Art Gallery')
Christchurch
Mansion/Wolsey Garden (inscriptions)
Christchurch Mansion
('Frugalitatem...' and
'Manuel Sorrell')
Christchurch Street (O.S.
benchmark - corner
with Woodbridge Road)
28 Christchurch Street ('Doric
House')
31-33 Christchurch Street, ('Santiago Villas 1870')
38 Christchurch Street
('Prospect House...' -
corner
with Cemetery Road)
Civic Drive (street nameplates)
Clarkson Street
(Primitive Methodist
Chapel foundation stones)
Clarkson Street ('Saint Matthew's Hall')
Clarkson Street (Slavery
abolitionists)
Claude Street (street nameplate)
Cliff Lane ('ER' pillar box)
Cliff Lane (Memorial almshouses)
Cliff Road ('Ransomes 1919' on warehouse)
Cliff Quay (Tolly Cobbold Brewery: 'The
Cliff')
Cliff Quay (Tolly Cobbold 'Cliff Cottage')
Cobbold Mews (street nameplate)
Cobham Rd, Old Trolleybus Depot (Ipswich
Transport Museum, various signs)
1-5 College Street (Burton, Son &
Sanders)
4 College
Street ('BA ... 1590')
College Street ('The Mill')
College Street (street nameplate)
College Street (Wolsey Gate plaque)
Colchester
Road (numbered rail bridge)
79 Commercial Road (Lost sign: 'Ernest C. Cross
Haulage Contractors')
79 Commercial Road (Lost sign: 'Three Tuns
Inn')
Common Quay (Custom House, Ipswich
Waterfront)
Constable Road (street nameplate)
Coprolite Street (street nameplate)
Corn Exchange/Town Hall
('Police Station')
6-6a Cornhill ('1904'
Grimwade's)
Cornhill ('Post Office', Lloyds
Arch)
Cornhill (street nameplate)
Corporation Avenue, Bourne Park (the original
carriage-drive to Stoke Park Mansion)
County Hall,
St Helens Street
Coytes Gardens (street
nameplates)
8 Cornhill ('Mannings')
Coytes Gardens (street
sign)
Crabbe Street, Aldeburgh
Gardens
14 Crabbe Street ('Percy
Cottages')
29 Crabbe Street (Kenmore')
36-38 Croft Street ('EUR')
Croft Street (street nameplate)
Cromwell Square 'Honiton
House F.L.S 1892'
Cromwell Square
(Obolensky sculpture)
Cromwell Square (street nameplates)
'Cross Keys Lane' off Carr Street
(GPO
marker post)
Crown Street ('Egertons' - rear of Yates Wine
Lodge,
Trafalgar House, Tower Street)
Crown Street, Crown Pools (Ipswich coat of arms)
Crown Street (Lost sign: 'W.J. Coe Garage')
3 Crown Street (Lost sign: 'Crown Iron Works 1840, George Abbott Ltd')
51 Crown Street ('Crown
Office')
Cullingham
Road ('Corn Hay Chaff... - corner with Handford Road)
21-23 Cumberland Street ('Cumberland Terrace'
33-35 Cumberland Street
('Hill
Cottage 1865')
Cutler Street (street name)
Curriers Lane (Bluecoat Boys School)
Dale Hall Lane
(street
nameplate)
1 Dial Lane (Pickwick's Cafe -
'Scarborow')
Dial Lane (St Lawrence Church)
79/81 Derby Road ('Sydney Cottages 1894')
83/85 Derby Road ('Acacia Cottage 1894')
87-89 Derby Road ('Brondesbury Cottages 1894')
91-93 Derby Road ('Fern Cottages 1896')
97-99 Derby Road ('J.G.L. Gooding's Cottages 1899')
Derby Road ('P.J.
Prentice... Family Grocer' -
corner with
Felixstowe
Road)
Devereaux Court (street nameplate)
33-35 Dillwyn Street (Industrial Villa 1870)
Dillwyn Street
(Slavery
abolitionists)
Dock Street (street nameplate)
2 Dog's Head Street (street
nameplate on The Plough)
4 Dog's Head Street ('Edme Bakery')
8-10 Dogs Head Street (Ipswich coat
of arms)
Dove
Street ('R.H. Kent')
Dove Yard (street nameplate)
1 Duke Street ( No.1: Mortimers Seafood
Restaurant)
Duke Street, Island House ('Ransomes' on
Premier Pool Club)
2 Duke Street (Steam Packet - replaced
lettering!)
Dykes Street (former Avis Cook workshops)
Eagle Street (street nameplates)
8-10 Eagle Street ('Drink Topall Tea')
11-11a Eagle Street ('The Eagle Street Ogre')
Electric House
('Light Power Heat')
Elliott Street ('Elliott Street Bakery',
corner
with 66a Gibbons Street)
Elliott Street (Slavery
abolitionists)
4-6
Elm Street ('Quill Court')
31 Elm Street ('Ipswich
Board School')
Elm Street (St
Mary at Elms church & cottage)
27 Elm Street ('Mrs Smith's Alms Houses')
Emlen Street (Slavery abolitionists)
Ernleigh Road (street nameplate)
Felaw Street ('Tolly Cobbold')
Felaw Street (street nameplate)
Felaw Street ('Bake
office' - corner with
Great
Whip Street)
Felixstowe Road ('J.W. How' - corner with
Salisbury
Road)
97 Felixstowe Road ('Beaumont Terrace')
113-115 Felixstowe Road
('Deans Villas A.D. 1869') also on our Felixstowe
Rd page
137-143 Felixstowe Road ('Chevallier
Terrace 1880')
137-143 Felixstowe Rd
('Burroughes Bros'
at
rear of Lamden Gallery)
159
Felixstowe Road ('Chemist')
183 Felixstowe Road ('P.J. Prentice')
188 Felixstowe
Road ('Royal Oak House 1895' and
an uncovered 'Hawards Bakers' sign)
between 227 and 235
Felixstowe Road (Oxford Villas F.L.S. 1887')
338 Felixstowe Road, ('Grindlewald')
Felixstowe Road (numbered rail bridge)
314 Foxhall Road ('J. Jones, Family...
Cooked' lost sign)
Fonnereau
Road/Crown Street
(comparative
image)
Fonnereau Road (Brett Fountain)
Fore Hamlet (Grimwade Memorial Hall)
Fore
Street ('Baths')
Fore Street (The Big Query)
Fore Street 'Social Settlement' (now
demolished)
1-3 Fore Street (Eagle Street/Fore Street
nameplates)
32 Fore Street ('1620')
80 Fore Street ('Isaac Lord') / ('Isaac
Lord continued')
2-8 Fore Street ('Martin & Newby')
17 Fore Street ('Meremayd')
24 Fore Street ('H.W. Parker' lost lettering,
but the building survives)
86 Fore Street (Old Neptune Inn)
86 Fore Street (Old
Neptune Inn: tavern clock/garden)
97 Fore Street ('E. J. Owles -
Chemist')
Foundation Street (Richard Felaw's House –
site of)
Foundation Street, Tooley's Court ('Henry
Tooley...')
Foundation Street ('The Unicorn Brewery')
Foundation Street (street nameplate on side of
The Unicorn)
34 Foxhall Road ('Each For All...')
84-86 Foxhall
Road, Ruskin
Lifting Engineers
Ltd (petrol pump)
95 Foxhall Road ('Ruskin
House')
137-139 Foxhall Road
('Windermere Terrace 1904')
142 Foxhall Road ('Blue
Gown Villas 1877')
160 Foxhall Road (Hope House plaques)
167 Foxhall Road
('Blooming Fuchsia')
174 Foxhall Road ('Orianda
Terrace 1879')
202 Foxhall Road ('Tennyson
House 1892')
314 Foxhall Road ('J. Jones Family
Butcher')
389 Foxhall Road (The 'Asylum Hotel'
[Heathlands])
596 Foxhall Road ('Buss Webb
& Son Ltd.' drain cover)
748 Foxhall Road ('The Golf Hotel')
Foxhall Road ('Foxhall
Hospital')
Foxhall Road ('Hope House' gates, plaques)
Foxhall Road (St Clements Hospital)
Foxhall Road (numbered rail bridge)
14-16 Freehold Road
'J.T.S. 1851')
Friars Bridge Road (street nameplate)
33 Friars Road (Lost sign: 'The Friars
Head' and lost road, too)
Friars Road (Lost sign: 'Grimwade Ridley
& Co. 1898')
Friars Road (Lost
sign: 'Walpamur')
Friars Road (the Willis monolith)
Fuchsia Lane ('The
Blooming
Fuchsia')
Fuchsia Lane (numbered rail bridge)
Fuchsia Lane (street nameplate)
2 Fuchsia Row, Foxhall Road ('2011')
Gainsborough Road
(street nameplate)
Gatacre Road (Ipswich Board
School entrances)
Gaye Street ('TFL')
61 Geneva Road (Ipswich coat of arms on street
nameplate)
66a Gibbons Street ('Elliott Street Bakery' -
corner
with Elliott Street)
Gibbons Street ('Cocksedge
Ipswich' drain cover)
Gibbons Street
(Slavery abolitionists)
Giles Circus
Gladstone Road street
nameplate
Gower Street (street nameplate)
Granville Street
(Slavery abolitionists)
Great Colman
Street
(comparative
image)
Great Gipping Street (bicycle symbol
in railings)
Great Gipping Street (street nameplate)
81 Great Whip Street
(launderette 'Bake
Office')
Great Whip Street (street
nameplate)
Grimwade Street ('St Clement's Parochial
Church Hall' covered sign)
16 Grimwade Street ('GVR 1934')
52-58 Grimwade Street
('Peters
Ice Cream')
81 Grimwade
Street (The Captains' Houses: date, initials plaque)
The Grove, off
Henley Road
(street
nameplate)
The Grove, off Henley
Road
('Grove
Cottages 1880')
Grove Lane (Byles fountain
in Alexandra
Park)
Gymnasium Street (street
nameplate)
Hadleigh Road (milepost – near
Chantry Park
entrance)
Handford Road ('V.A. Marriott')
Helena Road (blue street nameplate)
1 Henley
Road ('Henslow Terrace 1868')
9 Henley Road (Greyhound – lost 'phone
kiosk)
Henley Road, ('Ipswich School - Mermagen House')
Henniker Road, ('Southdown, FLS – 1901')
Henniker Road, ('Valley View, FLS 1901')
Henslow Terrace F.L.S. 1902, 119-121
Henslow Road
High Street ('Drain
Rodding Point')
High Street ('1880...' - Ipswich Museum)
12 High Street ('Commerce Chambers')
Highfield Road (Castle Hill Community Centre 'AD
1893')
Humber Doucy Lane (Ipswich Rugby Club,
blazon of Borough coat of arms)
Hutland Road ('Clean it
up!')
Ipswich Square (street nameplate) in Arras, France
Island site (Lost
sign: 'William Brown & Co. (Ipswich) Ltd. Timber Importers')
Ivry Street, side of Ivry House ('Pathology')
Ivry Street ('Victoria Wing' - Anglesea Heights car park)
Ivry Street ('East Suffolk Militia Depot')
Ivry Street (Ipswich School coat of arms)
14-16 Kemball Street ('Grimwood Terrace,
Raymond C. Wrinch A.R.I.B.A. Archt. 1903')
June Avenue
(street
nameplate)
Key Street (The Bull Inn)
Key Street ('Cranfields Flour Mill')
Key Street (The New Custom House)
Key Street ('The
Mill')
Key Street (St Mary-At-Quay Church)
3-7 King Street ('ISM 1707' - Swan Inn)
King Street (street names)
King Street ('Exchange Chambers')
Kings Avenue (police notice on gates)
3-5 Kings
Avenue ('Byles Terrace FLS 1910')
19-21 Kings Avenue ('Alexandra
Terrace FLS 1903')
39-41 Kings Avenue ('Park Terrace FLS 1908')
Kitchener Road ('Boys
Entrance')
99 Lacey Street
('Morpeth House')
130 Lacey Street ('ITT1H
1869,')
Lady Lane ('Our Lady' sculpture
and plaque)
Lancaster Road (street
name)
Levington Road, junction with Felixstowe Road
(street nameplate)
69-71 Levington Road (Coronation Cottages 1902')
Lion Street (street nameplates and painted
sign)
Little Gipping Street (street nameplate)
Little Whip Street (street nameplate)
Lloyds Avenue (street
nameplate)
Lloyds Avenue ('Electric House')
Lloyds Avenue ('ER' double pillar box)
Lloyds Avenue ('Odeon' cinema)
London Road ('67' milestone outside
Chantry Park)
137 London Road ('Mile End,
Coleman Buildings 1836')
140 London Road ('68'
milestone)
158 London Road ('Sweets &
tobacco', now demolished)
7 Lower Brook Street ('Suffolk Victoria
Nursing
Institute...')
Lower Orwell Street ('7000GAL')
Lower Orwell Street (street nameplate)
Luther Road (Nethaniah Home for the Aged')
11-13 Luther Road (dated houses opposite
Rectory Road)
Maltings Terrace (street nameplate)
5 Malvern Close ('Bedford Villas F.L.S. 1885')
12 Malvern Close, ('Heron Villas F.L.S. 1880')
Marlborough Road
('Marlborough House 1903'
and a range of house name
plaques)
Milton Street ('Poets Cottages')
Moat Farm Close (street nameplate)
Museum Street Methodist Church
(foundation stone)
Museum Street ('GR' double pillar box
beside Monsoon shop)
23 Museum Street ('Established 1833')
36 Museum Street ('R.C. Wrinch')
38 Museum Street ('Hayward Brothers' manhole
cover)
40 Museum Street (Ipswich coat of arms)
40-42 Museum Street ('1905')
Myrtle Road
memorial tablet
123(?) Nacton Road (dated
house '1901')
Nacton Road (Crane Co gates)
Nelson Road (three named 'Cottages'
scrolls)
10 Nelson Road ('Lydia Cottages 1868'
scroll)
47-9
Nelson Road ('Henslow Cottages 1899')
52 Nelson Road ('Hill House 1863')
Neptune Quay/Wherry Quay (blue
street nameplate)
Neptune Quay (Waterfront Building
- 'Question' art
installation)
New Custom House, Albion Quay ('1ft above
HW')
New Cut East, Private Road (blue street
nameplate)
New Cut East (street nameplate on the Harbour
Master's Office)
New Cut West ('Bolenda Engineering',
'Websters
Trade Yard')
Newton Road street nameplate
Newton Road ('Conservative Club')
Newton Road (St Bartholomew's Church)
Newton Road ('Tennyson
House 1892': side of 202
Foxhall Road)
80 Newton Road ('Greens
Cottages')
107 Newton
Road
('E. Markham, Grocery County Supply Stores')
22 Norfolk Road, 'The Angel of
Norfolk Street'
1 Northgate Street
('Public Library')
3-5 Northgate Street (Egerton's 'Motor Works')
7 Northgate Street (Oak House)
Northgate
Street (street name)
14 Northgate Street ('14 North Gate')
15 Northgate Street ('Halberd Inn' - P.J.
McGinty
pub)
5A Norwich Road (Palmers Bakery)
37 Norwich Road (Serjeants Paints &
Wallpapers)
46 Norwich Road ('1891' - Maharani Restaurant)
133 Norwich Road ('Beaufort
Buildings')
Norwich Road milestone: junction with
Chevallier
Street)
Norwich Road 'Ferodo' railway bridge
293 Norwich Road:
The Emperor pub
Nottidge Road (street name)
8-10 Nottidge Road ('Woodbine Cottage')
14 Nottidge Road ('Newton Cottage 1868')
Oak Lane ('Prior Memorial
St Mary Le Tower
Church House')
Old Cattle Market ('1620' beam and
street sign)
Old
Foundry Road ('Ewers Grey-Green
Coaches')
Old Foundry Road ('Reading', 'Lectures')
Old Foundry Road (street nameplate)
Old
Foundry
Road ('...y Road')
Orford Street (street nameplate)
Orwell Place ('The Unicorn')
Orwell Place ('Martin & Newby')
1 Orwell Place (St Pancras Church)
4a Orwell Place ('SB')
Orwell Road ('J.
Jones,
Family... Cooked' vestige of lost trade sign)
4 Paget Road ('Paget Villas 1872')
1 Palmerston Road ('Le-Treport 1923')
24-26 Palmerston Road ('Home
Cottage 1889')
30-32 Palmerston Road ('Khartoum Villa
1885')
22-24 Parade Road ('Parade Cottages
1895')
Park Road, stable block (mystery crest)
Parkside Avenue (street nameplates)
1 Parliament Road (street
nameplate)
Park Road reservoir (Ipswich coat of arms)
Patteson Road (blue street nameplate)
Paul's Road ('Ranelagh Road Council School')
Pearce Road (Zippo Cottages 1887')
48-50 Philip Road ('Devonshire Terrace
F.L.S. 1898')
7-9 Phoenix Road ('Stanley
Cottages')
11-13 Phoenix Road ('Maud
Cottages')
15-17 Phoenix Road, ('Alan
Cottages')
Pitcairn Road ('The Lincs...',
'The Rest...')
Pleasant Row (street nameplate)
Plough Street (street nameplate)
Princes Street, Town
Hall ('Police Station')
2 Princes Street, Mutual House ('Parr's Bank Ltd.', '1901' weather vane)
Fraser House, Princes
Street/Museum Street
('Established
1833')
35 Princes Street ('Sun
Buildings')
Princes Street ('R&W Paul' maltings)
28 Princes Street
('Britannic House')
38 Princes Street ('The
Central Livery
&
Bait Stables...')
39 Princes Street (Century House, former YMCA)
84 Princes Street (NFU
sculpture)
Princes Street bridge plaque
Purplett Street (street nameplate)
17-19 Purplett Street ('Purplett Terrace 1884')
Quadling Street (horse
tram depot)
7-11 Queen Street ('Queens Hotel, 1970)
32 Queen Street ('Thirty Two')
Queens Way roundabout ('Queens Way' in railings)
Ranelagh Road ('J. Pooley & Co.')
23-27 Ranelagh Road ('Primrose Terrace,
May 17 1883')
181-183 Ranelagh Road ('Vigilant Villas
1893')
27 Rectory Road ('Norfolk House')
56 Rectory Road (Record
Reign 1897')
1 Redan Street ('Norfolk
House')
Redan Street ('Cocksedge Ipswich' railings)
Rope Walk, former SCC Staff Club ('Opus Nostrum Dirige')
Rope Walk ('Primitive
Methodist Chapel')
Rose Lane ('D.B. 1862')
Rose Lane (Rose Hotel)
Rosehill Crescent ('Bishopsgarth', lost
lettering)
12 Rosehill Road ('Trinity Vicarage')
174 Rosehill Road ('Alpha Place 1875')
199 Rosehill Road ('Bartholomew Villas
1895')
202, 208 Rosehill Road (house name
plaques)
Rosemary Lane (street nameplate)
62-64 Roundwood Road ('1926')
125 Rushmere Road ('1908')
136Rushmere Road (Ipswich
Bowls Club, blazon of Borough coat of arms)
140 Rushmere Road ('1909')
Salisbury Road ('J. W. How.')
Salisbury Road
('Cocksedge Ipswich' 'Abbott Crown St Works Ipswich' railings)
St Clements Church
Lane ('Lord Nelson' gate)
St Clements Church Lane
(street nameplates)
St Clements Church
Lane (Suffolk Housing Soc. plaque)
St Edmund's Road (Street nameplate)
St Edmunds Place (Street
nameplate)
4 St Georges Street (Globe pub
–
'Cobbold's Ales
&
Spirits')
St Georges Street (Ipswich Museum 'A.D. 1900')
17 St
Georges Street ('Bolton Terrace 1882)
46-48 St Georges Street ('Providence Place 1864')
52 St Georges Street ('Salem Chapel')
St Helens Church Lane (street
nameplate)
3 St Helens Street, ('Regent')
6 St Helens Street ('1636')
12 St Helens
Street ('Hales Chemist')
14-16 St Helens Street ('Turners
Buildings')
60 St Helens Street ('Emeny' Newsagent, 1970s)
70-74 St Helens Street ('Dove Yard' street
nameplate)
96-98 St Helens Street ('Hill Farm, Henley Co.')
102 St Helens
Street ('Robertson's')
104 St Helens Street ('H.W.
Turner')
115 St Helens Street (the Church of St
Helen: foundation stone and memorial)
129 St Helens
Street ('Tramway Place')
198 St Helens Street ('Grove Bakery')
200 St Helens Street ('1906': corner with Grove Lane)
St Helens Street/Argyle Street corner (IBH)
St Helens Street (collection of tramway
poles)
St Helens Street, County Hall (extant K6
'phone box)
St Helens Street/corner with Jefferies
Road ('British relay' box)
St Helens Street/corner with Palmerston
Road ('Callander 83261')
St Helens Street, Zoar Baptist Chapel ('ZOAR')
St Margarets
Green, St
Margaret's Church
St Margarets Green (Saracen's Head/'Clarence
House')
St Margaret's Green (street nameplate)
St Margaret's
Green/Bolton Lane (street nameplates)
18 St Margaret's Green ('Countrystyle
furniture' shop sign)
9a St Margarets Plain
('Bethesda')
St Margarets Plain (street nameplate)
24 St Margarets Plain (Tau cross: The Old Pack
Horse Inn)
2 St Margarets Street (Northgate Street
street nameplate)
St Margarets Street
(former Bar Fontaine/Prince of Orange)
St Margarets Street
('Philips &
Piper...')
70-72 St Matthews St 'Half Moon
& Stars plaque)
73 St Matthews Street (Alexander House:
blue plaque)
St
Mary-Le-Tower churchyard ('Egertons' -
back
of night club, 3-5 Northgate Street)
St Nicholas Street (street nameplate)
47 St Nicholas Street (Curson Lodge)
47 St Nicholas Street ('J. Dean, Maker,
Putney')
St Peters Dock (street nameplate)
1 St Peters Street
(Wolsey statue)
5-7 St Peters Street (vestige of 'Cobbolds'
lettering, Rose Hotel)
8 St Peters Street
(The Sailors Rest)
9 St Peters Street (The Thomas
Wolsey pub)
St Peters Street (jct.
Silent Street -
'Victorian' pillar box)
St Peters Street (St Peters Hall)
St. Peters Wharf (blue street nameplate)
15-17 Russell Road (Borough council
offices - coat of arms)
17 St Stephens Church Lane (The Sun Inn / 'Atfield & Daughter')
St Stephens Church Lane
St Stephen churchyard
(Sir Thomas Rush's 'R' on bressumer beam)
St Stephen's Lane
Salthouse Street
(Old Jewish cemetery)
27 Seymour
Road/Rectory Road ('Norfolk
House')
24-26 Schreiber
Road ('Bristol
Terrace F.L.S. 1904')
25-27 Schreiber Road ('Geneva
Cottages 1903')
44-46 Schreiber Road ('Curzon Terrace F.L.S.
1903')
64-66 Schreiber Road ('Durbar Terrace F.L.S. 1903')
84-86 Schreiber Road ('Schreiber Terrace F.L.S. 1902')
1 Sherrington Road ('Home
& Industry
(Contractors) Ltd')
71 Sherrington
Road ('Broomhil Open Air Swimming Pool')
Shire Hall Yard (street nameplate)
Ship Launch Road (blue street
nameplate)
11 Silent Street ('Merchant House'
transplanted)
Silent Street (historic
bird's eye view)
Silent Street (Curson Lodge)
Silent Street (street nameplate)
Slade Street ('PARTABLE WALL[?] 1812'
mystery tablet)
Smart Street (school
signs)
4-8 Soane Street (Tau symbol: Freemason's Hall)
South Street (street nameplate)
12-14 Spring Road ('Congress Terrace 1878. W.G.')
161-163 Spring Road ('St. Giles's
Terrace')
291 Spring Road
(Boys School
1873)
Star Lane (enhanced street sign)
Station Street ('Ipswich Loco Men's Club &
Institute')
55 Station Street ('Jubilee Bakery 1887')
Stevenson Road (street nameplate)
1-3 Stoke Street ('The Old Bell Inn')
Stoke Street, The People's
Hall ('Stoke
Hall')
Stoke Hall Road, Stoke Street
Stoke Park Drive (Bourne Park)
32/32a Suffolk Road ('Suffolk Road Stores...'
-
corner
with Tuddenham Avenue)
Surrey Road/London Road ('Sweets &
Tobacco')
2 Surbiton Road 'Telolmakouta House
1897'
Tacket Street (Tankard Inn, Salvation
Army Citadel)
1-5 Tacket Street ('G.W.H. 1934')
Tacket Street ('Price' also
'Price's Boots' -
corner with Lower
Brook
Street)
4 Tacket Street ('the laughing onion')
30 Tacket Street ('E.
Brand & Sons')
Tacket Street (Christ Church URC/Baptist
plaques)
Tankard Street see Tacket
Street
7
Tavern
Street
(Wootton's shop signs)
17 Tavern Street ('R Boby Engineer')
43 Tavern Street ('Great White Horse Hotel')
44 Tavern Street (Ipswich coat of arms)
50-52 Tavern Street ('Croydon's Jewellers')
9 Thoroughfare ('Cornhill
Chambers')
Thoroughfare ('Bank')
Thoroughfare ('1935' rain hopper)
4 Tomline Road ('Ivy House')
83
Tomline Road ('Marlborough House, 1891')
Tomline Road
(Rosehill Library)
Tower Street (St
Mary-Le-Tower weather vane)
7 Tuddenham Avenue ('S.Shanks')
75 Tuddenham Road ('Mobberley'
named brick)
Tuddenham Road (numbered
rail bridge)
Turret Lane (street nameplate)
Tyler Street
(street nameplate)
14/16 Tyler Street ('1884'
Tyler Terrace)
Upper
Barclay
Street ('Barnes of Ipswich Ltd.' - Cox Lane car park)
12 Upper Brook Street ('Symonds For Kodaks')
13 Upper Brook Street ('Cock & Pye',
'Posada')
41 Upper Brook Street ('CTC')
Upper Brook Street/Dog's Head Street
(Ipswich Building Society crest)
Upper Orwell Courts (street nameplate)
10 Upper Orwell Street ('1903' former Duke of Kent
pub)
63 Upper Orwell Street ('Palmers Door
Mats')
75 Upper Orwell Street (street nameplate)
Upper Orwell Street ('Barnes of Ipswich'
at
rear of empty store)
Upper Orwell Street (Crane metal relief and garden)
Upper Orwell Street (St Michael Church)
Union Street ('Charles Court')
Vere Gardens
(street
nameplate)
Vernon Street (The Old
Bell)
Vernon Street (Co-op) actually 89 Austin Street
39 Vernon Street ('Methodist Mission
Room')
198 Vernon Street ('Uncle Tom's Cabin')
Victory Road, St John's School
('Roundwood' plaque)
The Walk ('1885' rainwater spouting)
19 Warrington Road ('WS 1900')
31 Warwick Road ('Ardire Villa A.D.1883')
35 Warwick Road ('R.E & S.C, Nov.
12.1880')
Waterloo Road ('IHC' on
All Saints Church)
Waterworks Street
('Ragged Boys School')
Waterworks Street
(Waterworks Street Cottages)
Watts Court (off Foundation
Street: vestigial
street sign)
West End Road Pumping
station ('1988')
62 Wellesley Road ('The British
Flag Stores')
26 Westerfield Road
('Ipswich High
School')
Westerfield Road (carnser)
Westerfield Road entrance to Christchurch
Park (Cabmen's shelter '1892')
10-14 Westgate Street ('Crown &
Anchor
Hotel')
11-13 Westgate Street ('19EH22')
16-26 Westgate
Street ('Marks &
Spencer')
59-61
Westgate Street ('Bretts')
Wet Dock ('Isaac Lord')
Wet Dock ('John Good'/Salthouse Harbour
Hotel)
Wet Dock (R&W Paul, Burtons, Customs House)
Wherry Lane ('Isaac Lord')
Wherry Lane (the lost cannon)
3 Wherry Quay (plaque)
Wherry Quay/Neptune Quay (blue street
nameplate)
Wherstead Road/Station Street junction (H.G. Clarke
Gardens plaque)
15 Wherstead Road (Christ's
Hospital
Buildings')
49 Wherstead Road (C.J. Hawes shop)
487 Wherstead Road ('Wherstead Rd. Garage')
501 Wherstead Road ('Wherstead' red bricks)
542-544 Wherstead Road
('Teddy's Terrace 1925')
570-572 Wherstead Road
('Ostrich Terrace 1925')
Wherstead Road (Bourne Park,
Archway Cottage)
Wilberforce
Street (Primitive Methodist Chapel foundation stones)
Wilberforce Street
(Slavery
abolitonists)
Wingfield Street (street nameplate)
Withipoll Street (street nameplates)
Wolsey Street (Lost sign: 'Kent Blaxhill')
Wolsey Street (Lost sign:
'William Brown & Co. (Ipswich) Ltd. Timber Importers')
Wolsey Street (Lost
sign: 'Zulu Inn')
Woodbridge Road
('Confectionery Works' -
formerly
Greens builder's merchant)
Woodbridge Road ('Shaftesbury Villas')
Woodbridge Road/St Helens
Street junction ('Odeon' ghost sign)
1 Woodbridge Road ('1928')
3-5 Woodbridge Road ('69' milestone - outside
Mulberry Tree)
3-5 Woodbridge Road ('Mulberry Tree')
15-17 Woodbridge Road (ICA crest/mottos)
61 Woodbridge Road (O.S. benchmark - corner with
Christchurch Street)
90 Woodbridge Road (Atlas House)
104 Woodbridge Road (Horse
& Groom)
114 Woodbridge Road (Mary's)
150 Woodbridge Road ('ICWW' drain cover)
165-7 Woodbridge Road ('Vicarage')
169-171 Woodbridge
Road
('Harmony Square' 'Hanover Court' entry)
170 Woodbridge Road
(Rhynwick Lodge/The
Casino)
228-236 Woodbridge Road
('Belle Vue Villas 1891')
Woodbridge Road ('St
John's Lodge')
179 Woodbridge Road
('Connaught Buildings 1878')
192 Woodbridge Road
(Fire Hydrant)
193 Woodbridge Road
('Farringdon Villas')
193 Woodbridge Road –
pavement outside
('Ipswich
Corporation
Electricty Dept. Mains Disconnecting Box')
207 Woodbridge Road
(opp. Duke of York -
defunct post box)
207 Woodbridge
Road ('Connaught House 1887')
The Duke of York, 212
Woodbridge Road
(engraved glass lettering)
near 212 Woodbridge Road (Derby Lodge
capstone)
228/230 Woodbridge Road ('ICWW' drain
cover)
325 Woodbridge Road ('70' milestone)
372
Woodbridge Road (St H, B, 1900)
375-377 Woodbridge Road ('Salisbury
Terrace 1899')
382 Woodbridge
Road('British Relay' box)
394-396 Woodbridge Road ('Red House
Villa, 1866')
398 Woodbridge Road ('1881')
438 Woodbridge Road (The
Golden Key)
544-550 Woodbridge Road ('Shortis
Motorist's Discount Store')
691 Woodbridge Road ('1911',
"Barclays
tollhouse")
Woodbridge Road
(numbered rail bridge)
Woodbridge Road East ('71' milestone - outside filling station)
Woodville Road ('Infants':
Clifford Road
Primary
School)
Wykes Bishop Street ('Ransomes 1919)'
Wykes Bishop Street (street
nameplate)
73 Wykes Bishop Street (former Happy Return
public house)
York Road
('Burroughes Bros')
York Road
(street nameplate)
11-13 York Road ('York Terrace')
61-63 York Road ('Berry's Terrace')
66 York Road ('Clement Cottages')
Related pages:
House
name plaque examples: Alston Road;
Bramford Road;
Cauldwell Hall Road; Cavendish Street; Marlborough Road; Rosehill area;
Ipswich & Suffolk Freehold Land
Society (F.L.S.); California;
Origins of street names
in Ipswich; Streets named after slavery
abolitionists;
Dated buildings list; Dated buildings examples;
Named
buildings list; Named (&
sometimes dated) buildings
examples;
Borough guidelines
on street
and house naming and numbering
Street nameplate;
Street nameplates on posts; Examples
of Street nameplates (Parliament Road
etc.);
Ropewalks; Brickyards
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