Street Signs
The use of cast or printed signs for street names is a
relatively
recent
development; streets have changed their names or have not been signed
in
any way in centuries past. This is probably due to the fact that anyone
who lived in the town would know the whereabouts of The Shambles (which
once stood on the site of the Post Office building on Cornhill) or
Buttermaket
(a name surviving to the present day) and any visitor would be able to
ask
the way.
Bridge Street
(Stoke Bridge)
Parliament Road also Upper Orwell Courts and Northgate Street
Lancaster Road
also Charles Court in Union Street.
Bishops Hill
Mile End
(Coleman Buildings)
Mileposts
King Street
Lloyds Avenue and Electric House
Old
Cattle Market and behind St
Stephen's church.
Railway bridges
'IBH' the hidden lettering 'ITFC'
Street names
(derivations)
Slavery
Abolitionists
commemorated in Ipswich street names
Blue plaques put
up to the memory of the
rich, the famous and the interesting
The history of street naming and signing is an area of
study all its own.
We recommend the book 'The Way We Went: Streets
in 19th Century Ipswich'
by Muriel Clegg, see Reading List.
[Our background is taken from one of the prominent
cast mileposts on
Woodbridge Road.]
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