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Cotton Lane, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1XY

I liked the old petrol pumps.

Located on Mustow Street, Bury St Edmunds. Hawkes Garage was established in 1928, The family run business is one of the longest serving car dealers in East Anglia http://dealerservices.autotrader.co.uk/15368/hcc.htm

Hawkes used car centre Mustow Street Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk.

This extraordinary house, close to the centre of the town, boasts 26 windows overlooking Mustow Street.

As the vintage petrol pumps show, this is a long-established Bury firm, dating from 1928.

Nice building but a very busy junction.

Thingoe house Northgate street Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk. This was the local council office of Thingoe Rural District Council until it ceased to exist in 1974 for photo of the plaque see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/604491 For info on the council see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thingoe_Rural_District

Thingoe House, in Northgate Street is now part of Cross Penny Court a retirement care home complex. Formerly it was the local council office of Thingoe Rural District Council until it ceased to exist in 1974. The plaque on the wall of the house records this occupation - see Image 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.

This plaque on the wall of Thingoe House Image records the occupation of Thingoe Rural District Council until it ceased to exist in 1974. 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.