IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Popular Road, IPSWICH, IP6 0GN
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Popular Road, IP6 0GN by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (27 Images Found)
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1
Claydon station (remains), 1985
View southward, towards Ipswich and London: ex-GER London - Ipswich - Norwich main line. Although the wires are up, electric trains had only begun to reach Ipswich on 13/5/85 and did not run on to Norwich until 11/5/87! However, this station was closed to passengers from 17/6/63, to goods from 31/3/71. The signalbox was evidently still active. The strange building on the right was part of the Cement Works at Claydon.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 2 Jun 1985
0.09 miles
2
Former Industrial Building, Great Blakenham
Off the B1113 Bramford Road
Image: © Geographer
Taken: 8 Apr 2009
0.10 miles
3
Fire at Great Blakenham
A large fire had broken out at Sacker's scrapyard, closing the road and causing delays on the nearby railway: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdlq7pvyy1o
Image: © Chris Holifield
Taken: 8 Aug 2024
0.11 miles
5
Gipping Road, Great Blakenham
Looking towards Claydon
Image: © Geographer
Taken: 8 Apr 2009
0.12 miles
6
Slurry Tank: Mason's Cement Works, Great Blakenham
This plant used the "wet process" in which the raw materials were ground together with water to produce a slurry with approximately the consistency of paint. The slurry was then fed to the kiln which successively dried, calcined and sintered it at 1400°C to form Portland cement clinker. The raw materials here were Upper Chalk and Boulder Clay from quarries in Image The slurry contained around 32% of water by mass: this had to be evaporated, at significant energy-cost. Because of this, wet process plants have been progressively phased out over the last thirty years. There are currently (2008) only three wet-process cement kilns left in operation in the British Isles. For more details, see http://www.cementkilns.co.uk/cement_kiln_masons.html.
2009 Update: there are now no wet process kilns left: the last one (Westbury Kiln 2 Image) shut down in 2009.
Image: © Dylan Moore
Taken: 14 Sep 1996
0.13 miles
7
Railway north from Great Blakenham level crossing
Looking over to part of Claydon Business Park.
Image: © Andrew Hill
Taken: 30 Oct 2007
0.13 miles
8
Milestone, Great Blakenham
On the B1113 Stowmarket Road
Image: © Geographer
Taken: 8 Apr 2009
0.13 miles
9
Great Blakenham village sign
The village is not afraid to include the huge energy recovery centre which generates 20 Megawatts of Electricity from the counties domestic waste. Aldo featured is of course the church, the River Gipping and the bridge which spans it. Finally the Baptist chapel, not forgetting the chickens.
Image: © Adrian S Pye
Taken: 24 Oct 2020
0.13 miles
10
Great Blakenham village sign
See a close up and more about the sign here
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6650955
Image: © Adrian S Pye
Taken: 24 Oct 2020
0.13 miles