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Orchard Street, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1EH

Looking east down Church Row.

Hardcore Hobbies is a shop on the corner of Church Row.

The building in Sergeant's Walk, between St Andrew's Street North and St John's Street, is the principal library in western Suffolk.

Ghost sign Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk.

Ghost writing on the blind end wall of a house on the corner of Well Street and Church Row advertises the services of a "Plumber, Glazier & House Decorator". Seen from the garden of the Just Traid café attached to St John's Church.

Colourful front of a shop with an intriguing name in St John's Street - alas now vacant!

Numbers 63 and 65 St John's Street were built as one house, later divided into three and are now a pair of shops with a flat and storage above. Timber framed and stuccoed, jettied to the street, the two bays to the right are 16th century, the left bay is 17th century, the whole was refronted in the 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1313427 North of the town centre Northgate Street and St John’s Street run towards the site of Northgate and the railway station and both streets have many older buildings. In between these two streets is a number of streets irregularly laid out (compared to the medieval grid of the town centre) containing mostly houses and buildings from the 19th century. 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.

Viewed from its junction with Short Brackland and Cannon Street, Orchard Street contains close-packed terraced housing. At the end of the street is the imposing church of St John the Evangelist, affectionately known locally as the 'Skyrocket', for obvious reasons.

Number 67 St John's Street, built as a house, is now two shops on the ground floor with a flat above. Built in the early to mid 16th century, timber framed, jettied to the street and stuccoed. Refronted in the 19th century when the shop fronts were inserted. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1313428 North of the town centre Northgate Street and St John’s Street run towards the site of Northgate and the railway station and both streets have many older buildings. In between these two streets is a number of streets irregularly laid out (compared to the medieval grid of the town centre) containing mostly houses and buildings from the 19th century. 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.