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Skinner Street, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1DD

This 'graffiti and gum remover' is using a high temperature, low pressure steam system which not only removes the gum but also the oily stain that can remain after traditional high pressure systems have been employed. See http://www.street-smart.co.uk/index.htm

Numbers 14 and 15 Buttermarket are a single building divided into two shops with storage above. Early 19th century, timber framed and stuccoed. The first storey windows are very irregular. Listed, for group value, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1031139 Cornhill, Buttermarket and The Traverse are the commercial heart of the town. Cornhill incorporates the market areas set out in the 12th century where twice weekly markets are held, Buttermarket with The Traverse extend to the south connecting with Abbeygate Street and Guildhall Street. The area has some of the town’s finest and most important buildings. Bury St Edmunds is a market town which is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and is known for brewing (Greene King) and sugar (British Sugar). There is scattered evidence of earlier activity but essentially Bury St Edmunds began as one of the royal boroughs of the Saxons and a monastery was founded which became the burial place of King Edmund. A new Benedictine abbey was built in 1020 which became rich and powerful and the town was laid out on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin. After the dissolution the abbey became ruinous. A new church, later the cathedral, was begun in the early 16th century.

In the 1970s, number 12 and number 13 Buttermarket were joined together as one large shop. Now re-divided into three shops with storage above. Number 12 (seen here) is early or mid 19th century, timber framed and stuccoed with two 20th century shop fronts. Number 13 Buttermarket Image is early to mid 19th century, timber framed and stuccoed with one large 20th century shop front. Listed, mainly for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1031136 Cornhill, Buttermarket and The Traverse are the commercial heart of the town. Cornhill incorporates the market areas set out in the 12th century where twice weekly markets are held, Buttermarket with The Traverse extend to the south connecting with Abbeygate Street and Guildhall Street. The area has some of the town’s finest and most important buildings. Bury St Edmunds is a market town which is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and is known for brewing (Greene King) and sugar (British Sugar). There is scattered evidence of earlier activity but essentially Bury St Edmunds began as one of the royal boroughs of the Saxons and a monastery was founded which became the burial place of King Edmund. A new Benedictine abbey was built in 1020 which became rich and powerful and the town was laid out on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin. After the dissolution the abbey became ruinous. A new church, later the cathedral, was begun in the early 16th century.

In the 1970s, number 12 and number 13 Buttermarket were joined together as one large shop. Now re-divided into three shops with storage above. Number 13 (seen here) is early to mid 19th century, timber framed and stuccoed with one large 20th century shop front. Number 12 Buttermarket Image is early or mid 19th century, timber framed and stuccoed with two 20th century shop fronts. Listed, mainly for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1031136 Cornhill, Buttermarket and The Traverse are the commercial heart of the town. Cornhill incorporates the market areas set out in the 12th century where twice weekly markets are held, Buttermarket with The Traverse extend to the south connecting with Abbeygate Street and Guildhall Street. The area has some of the town’s finest and most important buildings. Bury St Edmunds is a market town which is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and is known for brewing (Greene King) and sugar (British Sugar). There is scattered evidence of earlier activity but essentially Bury St Edmunds began as one of the royal boroughs of the Saxons and a monastery was founded which became the burial place of King Edmund. A new Benedictine abbey was built in 1020 which became rich and powerful and the town was laid out on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin. After the dissolution the abbey became ruinous. A new church, later the cathedral, was begun in the early 16th century.

This former fire station in the centre of Bury St Edmunds (see inscription above the entrance) is now a branch of the Halifax Bank.

Market stalls and shoppers on a Saturday in December 2010

A view south along Skinner Street

Erected in 1836, but already too small by 1861 to suit the needs of the Bury St Edmunds corn merchants,(who simply put up a bigger one right next door) the building acquired a number of functions over the following years, including fire station, school of art and library.