{"id":8192,"date":"2024-08-23T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/interestng-ipswich-information\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:29:46","slug":"interestng-ipswich-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/interestng-ipswich-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Interestng Ipswich Information"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ipswich Has Two Bus Stations<\/span><\/p>\n Old Cattle Market bus station was the home of Eastern National buses, later First Bus.<\/p>\n Since privatisation and following both competition and First cutbacks, other operators, including Ipswich Buses, will appear as it is the home of the “out of town” network.<\/p>\n There are on-going discussions about merging the two bus stations, but finding a site is challenging. In the meantime, there is a fighting chance that you bus will serve one and stop close to the other.<\/p><\/div>\n This is a brand new service scheduled to start on Monday 2nd September. The on-line publicity comes with an excellent route map (as above) but, sadly, it is not a PDF so “goes fuzzy” when enlarged.<\/p>\n Although the web site speaks of its terminus as at Copdock Tesco Extra, its real purpose ks to serve a brand new housing development on a wedge of green fields north of its intended end point.<\/p><\/div>\n … and here is one obligingly doing it.<\/p>\n Unusually for a Tesco, the bus stops right outside the store rather than being relegated to the far reaches of the car park.<\/p><\/div>\n It was hard to identify behind the weeds (sorry, the environmentally “sound” wild vegetation). But fbb is on the case …<\/p>\n … and it turns out to be a Felixstowe Flyer!<\/p>\n There is a snag, however …<\/p>\n The “Flyers” do nut serve Tesco!<\/p>\n But nearby is the Park and Ride site …<\/p>\n … for which First Bus has the contract using specleally liveried buses in blue.<\/p>\n An Essex County town map shows its proximity to Tesco.<\/p>\n Note, in passing, routes 91 and 93 which will re-appear in a jiffy!<\/p><\/div>\n When the Google Earth satellite had batteries in its camera, development had barely started, but Google Streetview reveals lots of new build …<\/p>\n … lots of new building …<\/p>\n … and property under construction right at the end of the cul-de-sac road whereat the 20 will turn.<\/p>\n Once a county lane, now blocked by the A14 …<\/p>\n … this becomes the spine road of the new estate.<\/p><\/div>\n It would appear tht the new block is called Wolsey Grange. Thomas Wolsey spent his boyhood at Ipswich and a plaque records where he spent it.<\/p>\n But that was at Curson Lodge. fbb suspects that Wolsey Grange is a manufactured name, designed to hoodwink the residents into believing that their boxes made of ticky tacky have some historical substance.<\/p><\/div>\n Whoops! The road is actually named after a tree and is called …<\/p>\n Whoops indeed!<\/p><\/div>\n