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McIntyre Walk, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP32 6PB

This is part of the new government's secret plan to keep out unwanted immigrants, mounting anti-vehicle guns beside the A14 from Felixstowe. There is a cover story that they are installing new illuminated information signs.

This little spur off Anglian Lane provides access to the back of CML (formerly Vitality Bulbs) and to the Warehouse Clearance shop, formerly Texas DIY. Also on the right is the back of a builders merchants. The A14 dual carriageway runs past the end on an embankment - a little bit of crash barrier is just detectable between the trees.

Not strictly true, but it does lead to the A14 road, the primary route for vehicles into Suffolk. Its actual purpose is to provide access to one of the new illuminated signs being added to the A14. I now realise that the construction machinery ready to build this was visible in previous picture Image

On the right of the picture we see a bus on a bridge, it seems. In reality the bridge you can see is a two track railway bridge and there is a small gap before the road bridge that carries the A14 dual carriageway and the bus. Underneath both bridges runs Beeton's Way, a local road. Ideally I suppose the bridges would be one structure but the railway bridge was built in the mid 1960s, several years before the 1971 road bridge. The road was the A45 at the time, and took the traffic that formerly ran through the town. These trees have the full set of autumn colours - green, yellow and red.

A set of giant information display signs were erected along the A14 in Suffolk over a year ago, but apparently the money ran out before they were put into use. This one is just visible across the railway embankment and A14 from a footpath. The mystery is the camera on the top. No doubt it was claimed to be there to monitor traffic. So why is it looking across the A14 at right angles south towards King Edward's School. Or is it facing North? There are other pictures on Geograph of the construction stages of the signs. This photo makes the pleasant footpath look like something from the surroundings of a prison - we know Network Rail really like to keep people out (on the left) while the school, on the right, also likes total control of its perimeter, unlike other Bury schools which don't seem bothered.

The road and rail crossing Beetons way Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk. The bridge nearest the camera is the railway line and just behind is the road bridge carrying the A14. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/625491 for info plaque.

Plaque to mark the opening of Beetons way the road and rail bridge for photo of the bridges see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/625484

This factory was built in the mid 60s for Vitality Bulbs, a manufacturer of specialist miniature light bulbs. Since then they have become VCH and now CML, with LEDs on the product list. The simple style of the building disguises its size. The A14 road runs just behind those trees - that was not there when the factory was built, nor were the surrounding industrial estates.

Until the late 1960s this was a footpath, with a gated crossing over the railway track. It became a road, with a bridge carrying the railway above, then later the A45 road (now A14) was built alongside the line. On the left the old Vinten canteen building is now leased by an aerospace camera maintenance company. Before the mini-roundabout to Western Way was added on the left, this corner was a regular scene of accidents as an optical illusion gave the impression the road went straight on.