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Houghton Way, IP33 3FX

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.

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.

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

This road is not very old but is already looking unloved, with broken surfaces and growing weeds - though they are quite pretty weeds.

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.

Many similar gasholders in the UK have been dismantled, but this one remains, in Tayfen Road, Bury St Edmunds, either as a local landmark or an eyesore, depending on your point of view.

Looking east along Springfield Road Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk.

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.