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Old Stable Yard, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1SU

Funeral directors St.Johns street Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk.

A narrow street of terraced housing converted to one-way to allow parking along one side of the street. A new property has been added to the terrace on the left.

As seen from St John Street.

A rather grey painted shop on the corner of St.Johns street and St.Johns Place Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk.

The Salvation Army church in St John's Street was built in 1889. 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.

The newer building looked better when it was a bank - the application of battleship grey paint by Domino's Pizza does not improve it. Behind it a flint wall probably traces the route of the original town walls. The area outside the wall here would have been too marshy to use for buildings, being close to Tay Fen (this is Tayfen Road) and with a small river running past. Is the river the Tay?