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Houghton Way, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 3FW

It was a somewhat misty day but at this point the factory was enveloped in a mist of its own making, coming from the factory chimney. It is commonly known as the Sugar Beet Factory, or the Sugar Factory, even though it makes neither. The stuff coming out of the chimney gets called steam or smoke and neither of those are right either - a small child that described it as the cloud factory was largely right. In the foreground we see the junction of Springfield Road and Spring Lane, and behind that the site of the demolished garage of Opus Cars, which features extensively in Geograph. To the right of the sugar refinery we can see the walkways of a fully descended gas holder.

A 4 picture panorama, this picture covers around 90 degrees of field. There used to be a car showroom and repair garage on this site.

OK, the Railway Sports Club closed several years ago, leaving their pitch to grow wild. The even taller weeds to the left were the actual wicket. The gasholder in Tayfen Road and the St. John's Church spire (not surprisingly located in St. John's Street) are both Bury landmarks. The foreground shows a little of the Tayfen estate. The stream from the Tayfen lake passes round the right of the pitch before disappearing under Tayfen Road - and never reappearing.

The Tayfen estate is viewed through the disused showroom of Opus Cars, while the trees of Tayfen Road and Block 1, Trinity Mews, are visible reflected in the window. This space formerly housed Ferraris and Porsches.

St. John's church spire features on the skyline. The blue construction in the foreground is an assembly of pallets to keep people off a broken up section of concrete - it looked rather permanent. It's a furniture shop on the left and a furniture warehouse on the right - but I never see any sign of customers at either.

This garage site has had several incarnations over the years, selling in turn Nissans, Volvos, Mazdas, White Vans, and sports cars but has now been vacant for years. It was growing huge weeds, and many of the windows were smashed. There were squatters in outbuildings. While the neighbours would have liked to see it back in use, demolition looks like a good alternative. And here we see preparations by a demolition company.

Opus Cars showroom half demolished. The showroom itself has already gone, leaving the toilet very exposed! A small office and the workshop remain. Work had to stop at this point while the air conditioner was cleared of freon.

The tall hedge hides a gas holder, but not the tall spire of St. John's church.

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Former car sales showroom Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk.