Ipswich Historic Lettering launched in 6.03 & moved to this domain (with a redirect from our old GeoCities home) on 17.9.09.
Recent updates: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Cobbold's Ales & Spirits, Trinity House buoy, Stoke Hall tunnels, Monasteries, C.J. Hawes; Vernon St Methodist Room, Sailors Rest, Norfolk House, Eye, Red Lion, Wherstead Church, Burroughes Bros Corn Flour & Meal, Crane Co, Giles Circus, Plaque Nirvana, St Peter's Hall, Burlingham, Bury, St Mary Le Tower, Colchester, Stowmarket, R Boby Engineer, Christ Church, '1900' Upper Brook St, Ipswich: the earliest town?, Lots more Colchester, We're in the press!, Benezet Street, East Suffolk Militia Depot, Stoke Maltings, Watts Court, Winchcombe/Upton, Glos, St Jude's Brewery, Tolly Cobbold House & Brewery , St Margaret's Church, Bolton Lane, Cranfield Court, St Matthew Church, Dated houses, Bar Fontaine, Soane Street, The changing Dock, 'Oldest town'?, Grimwade Hall, Cock & Pye, Fore St (1620) , Red House Villa, Wm. Paul Tenement Trust, Primrose Terrace, Peters Ice Cream, Hadleigh Rd milepost, Clarence House, Salem Chapel, Rosehill house names, St Mary-at-Quay, St Clement Church, New Cut East, Salthouse Hotel, The Island, Smart Street, The Unicorn, Princes Street, Corn Exchange
updated 11.5.2013
Ipswich Historic Lettering: Cock & Pye thumbnail

This website is dedicated to a special project devised and developed by the illustrator, Borin Van Loon. A resident of Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk in England, Borin has been photographing examples of old lettering on the walls of buildings in and around the town for several years.
The galleries of images shown here reflect the transition of a very ancient town (Ipswich is the earliest continuous settlement in England, dating back at least to the seventh century) as it progresses through the twenty first century. They will be updated and extended regularly including non-Ipswich examples in Gallery 7.

Introduction
What we've included and omitted. Progress so far.
Gallery 1
Street signs
Gallery 2
The Wet Dock
Gallery 3
Trade signs
Gallery 4
Architectural features
Gallery 5
Churches
Gallery 7
Examples from outside Ipswich

Themed pages At-a-glance tour This website in the press These we have lost Collage: lost signs
Pubs & Off licences Monasteries   Rosehill Library case study Timelines Historic maps
Street Index Street name derivations   Blue plaques Links/Reading/Comments   Dated buildings

[Note: the letter 'R' we are using as a background here is taken from the cast iron street sign in Bridge Street.]
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No reproduction of text or images without express written permission