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Queens Road, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 3EW

Hot air balloon seen early evening over Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk.

West Road Church on the corner of West Road and Queens Road Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk.

All Over Beauty in West Road, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk closed today as it being Christmas Day 2013.

Took a wander around the cemetery in Bury St Edmunds and photographed the old chapel on Christmas day 2006 to get away from the piles of empty toy boxes. Photo taken at 12-24 PM.

The chapel in the grounds of Bury St.Edmunds cemetery.

A general view of Bury St Edmunds Cemetery, seen from near the chapel Image Much of the centre of the town has suffered from redevelopment and most buildings are later than the mid 19th century. There are some uninspiring modern buildings along Parkway and the Arc shopping centre is particularly ugly, especially the building occupied by Debenhams. 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 Chapel stands near the northern edge of what is quite a large cemetery.

The evening sun casts long shadows across the cemetery, with the chapel of rest behind.

Number 117 was used as the orderly room for B Squadron Suffolk Yeomanry in 1910. This was moved to a slightly larger building in Whiting Street by 1912.