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Beetons Way, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP32 6TP

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.

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.

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

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.

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 first one I have ever seen, but no doubt the first of millions. This one has been installed as a replacement for a damaged sodium lamp. I will follow up with a shot of it lit.

The reverse view to Image The LED light is not really throwing out green ectoplasm - that is an internal reflection in the camera lens. The cyclist is evidently starting to dematerilise as he approaches the speed of light, sorry, as it approaches the light! Today the remaining sodium lamps have been replaced with cheaper-to-run LED ones. In the background of the shot we see the storage towers of Bury sugar refinery, and the stream of cloud from its chimney.

One of the sodium lamps on this path was vandalised and has been replaced by an LED version - see the close-up at Image This photograph provides an interesting comparison of the brightness and colour. It is interesting to see that the LED bicycle light has created a markedly brighter area. Two days later all the lamps were being changed over to the LED type, and a word with the workman revealed that these use 10 LEDs, each of 10W, so a total input of 100W, which he noted was much less than the old lamps, so a saving in running costs. On the right of this photo the fence prevents access to the railway embankment, while on the left the fence surrounds the playing fields of King Edward VI school http://www.king-ed.suffolk.sch.uk/.

On the footpath between Beeton's Way and Spring Lane. The fence is the rear border of King Edward VI school. In the far distance the storage silos of the sugar refinery dominate the skyline.