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Gibraltar Barracks, Out Risbygate, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 3RN

The keep of Gibraltar Barracks built in red brick with white brick and ashlar dressings. The walls are topped by a high crenellated parapet. The towers, which contain the stairs, have a row of three narrow stepped windows to each storey and the projecting top is crenellated above a row of stone machicolations. The keep and the walls are the remaining parts of a much larger depot complex built in 1878 as part of the army's 'localisation' process which was intended to improve the ties between a regiment and its locality to assist recruitment. The keep raised the local profile of the barracks, and provided a focus for the regiment. The depot ceased to be used in 1960 and is now The Suffolk Regimental Museum. Listed, grade II with details of the keep at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1244805 and details of the walls at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1244844 Brentgovel Street and Risbygate Street was a prosperous area in the fifteenth century but it became neglected and decay had set in. In the 1990s, a Conservation Area Partnership Schemes was introduced to give a new lease of life into the area by repairing and reusing historic buildings. Forty-five new residential units and ten new retail units have resulted in the area thriving again. 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 barracks building is now a museum. The parade ground is now the college car park.

The old barracks building houses the museum of the Suffolk Regiment, now absorbed into the Royal Anglian Regiment. For more details see http://www.suffolkregiment.org/Museum.html http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/sufreg.cfm

The barracks Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk see http://www.burypastandpresent.org.uk/bg/BRO_K505_0037.jpg as the building would have looked many years ago. The old photo is taken from The Spanton Jarman Collection see http://www.burypastandpresent.org.uk/index.htm The building now houses an army careers office and regimental museum see http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/amot-search/default.asp?Category=Amot&Service=Museum-Display&reference=0000000141 For another view see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346966

The barracks Risbygate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk see http://www.burypastandpresent.org.uk/bg/BRO_K505_2217.jpg as the building would have looked many years ago. The old photo is taken from The Spanton Jarman Collection see http://www.burypastandpresent.org.uk/ The building now houses an army careers office and regimental museum see http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/amot-search/default.asp?Category=Amot&Service=Museum-Display&reference=0000000141 For another view see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346948

Texaco, Bury St Edmunds. This photograph is part of a series taken in homage to the American artist Ed Ruscha's 1963 publication of 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations'. More properly known as filling stations in the UK, I am attempting to photograph as many as possible to mark the sixty year anniversary.

Part of the outer walls of Gibraltar Barracks with the top of the keep visible. The high walls are in red brick, divided into bays by pilasters, on a high plinth and with a projecting top with rounded copings. The keep and the walls are the remaining parts of a much larger depot complex built in 1878 as part of the army's 'localisation' process which was intended to improve the ties between a regiment and its locality to assist recruitment. The keep raised the local profile of the barracks, and provided a focus for the regiment. The depot ceased to be used in 1960 and is now The Suffolk Regimental Museum. Listed, grade II with details of the keep at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1244805 and details of the walls at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1244844 Brentgovel Street and Risbygate Street was a prosperous area in the fifteenth century but it became neglected and decay had set in. In the 1990s, a Conservation Area Partnership Schemes was introduced to give a new lease of life into the area by repairing and reusing historic buildings. Forty-five new residential units and ten new retail units have resulted in the area thriving again. 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 main entrance to Gibraltar Barracks has high, wide wrought-iron gates flanked by small side gates. Each pair of gate piers is linked above the side gates by brickwork, with stone capping and a stone block, on the left a shield dated 1878, on the right with the interwoven letters VR. The keep and the walls are the remaining parts of a much larger depot complex built in 1878 as part of the army's 'localisation' process which was intended to improve the ties between a regiment and its locality to assist recruitment. The keep raised the local profile of the barracks, and provided a focus for the regiment. The depot ceased to be used in 1960 and is now The Suffolk Regimental Museum. Listed, grade II with details of the keep at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1244805 and details of the walls at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1244844 Brentgovel Street and Risbygate Street was a prosperous area in the fifteenth century but it became neglected and decay had set in. In the 1990s, a Conservation Area Partnership Schemes was introduced to give a new lease of life into the area by repairing and reusing historic buildings. Forty-five new residential units and ten new retail units have resulted in the area thriving again. 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.