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Currys service centre for shoe repairs key cutting and more Cannon street Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk.

The original company name remains inscribed on this building in Long Brackland. More recently it has been a local radio station and now it is a charity headquarters. Some odd brickwork at pavement level. Presumably there were windows into cellar rooms, but surely they would be very damp - a clue is in the road name, and this is also downstream of Tayfen.

This building at number 50 Long Brackland was built in 1887 in red brick with stone dressings for Leonard Makin a wholesale grocer. For many years during the 20th century the building was used by the Co-operative Society and Pordages as a warehouse. In 1982 it became the home of Saxon Radio an independent radio station. Recently converted to apartments. 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.

Dolphin House, number 50 Cannon Street was formerly the Dolphin Inn public house which opened in the 1830s and closed in the early 1950s. Built in the late 18th century, timber framed and roughcast with a mansard roof. There is a long rear range. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248043 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.

Number 16 Long Brackland is early 19th century in white brick. Below the middle window is a stone plaque commemorating the residence of Henry Cockton, novelist, (1807-1853). Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022588 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.

Once The Seven Stars public house which closed in 1917 it is now five dwellings, numbers 17, 17A, 18, 18A and 19 Long Brackland. Built in the early 19th century in white brick. The former entrance to the yard has been infilled. There is a shop window on the right. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022589 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.

Three roads here if you count the one on the right which is now blocked. There are another three into the roundabout behind the photographer.