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Washington Close, IPSWICH, IP2 8TF

There was quite a lot of redevelopments going on or had been going on in the general area, but it was not clear which these applied to. Possibly to do with improvement to the quay flood defences, which looked as if it might be going on.

The river bank is over to the left. The grassy strip hides the tracks of the Griffin Wharf branch line, whose residual traffic is or was to an aggregates wharf in the distance. The tarmac ought to be a dead-end public byway, according to maps, but it is blanked off with hoarding gates at the camera position. The view is through the padlock aperture.

Looking upstream [locally north]. The New Cut is the realigned route of the River Gipping, created when the floating harbour was built alongside. The 'Ip' in Ipswich comes from 'Gipping'.

The New Cut was opened in 1842, forming a river channel around the wet dock creating the largest enclosed dock in the UK at the time. In the foreground is the newly-landscaped Waterfront West Bank, created as part of the construction of a new tidal barrier across the New Cut. The Griffin Ferry used to run across the New Cut at this point until the mid-20th Century.

Looking through a gap of hoardings along the public road here. There seemed to be some sort of improvement to the quayside flood resistance going on, so this might be to do with that. In the immediate foreground is one of the rails of the Griffin Wharf branch line, getting near its present day end, off to the left. Its last traffic was to an aggregates terminal some good way off to the right, when this part may have been used for backing trains into it, but this traffic may have ceased now.

This pair of oystercatchers have just flown off this rock, near the entrance to the Prince Philip Lock, Ipswich.

This yacht has just left the lock and is heading downriver.