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Lower Baxter Street, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1EF

The narrowest part of the street looking south towards people crossing by on Abbeygate Street.

Lighting shop Abbeygate Street Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk.

Blue LEDs seem to be compulsory in 2008 Christmas decorations. Here Marks and Spencer is one of the businesses to use dull rectangular nets of them. But Starbucks and Thomas Cook do not seem to have made any effort at all.

The 'Pillar of Salt' Image can be seen in context here. Also Image

Number 7 Angel Hill, was built in the 1930s to house the Borough Council's offices which it did until the council moved in 2009. Now part of the building is used as commercial offices, part has been converted to residential. The style is early 18th century Palladian. Now used as a car park, Angel Hill the traditional market place was, until the 1870s, home to the famous Bury Fair. People from Europe and across the Far East came to buy and sell. 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.

Number 21 Abbeygate Street, originally a house and shop is now a shop with storage above. Built in the early 19th century, timber framed and roughcast with a later large 'L' shaped rear extension. The shop front is late 20th century. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1328861 Abbeygate Street is the principal shopping street of the town. 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.