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The
Ipswich Historic Lettering Website launched in June, 2003
Recent updates: Brighton,
Southwold,
Harwich,
Christchurch Park, Carr Street, Freston
monument, Street names, Blue plaques, Abolitionists as street names, Ruskin House, Sudbury,
Mrs Smiths Alms Houses, St Peters Hall , Dedham, '1636' in St Helens Street, East Suffolk Militia Depot, Foxhall Hospital, Bramford
Road School
updated 16.4.09
This website is dedicated to a special project
devised and
developed
by the illustrator, Borin Van Loon. A resident of Ipswich, the county
town
of Suffolk in England, Borin has been photographing examples of old
lettering
on the walls of buildings in and around the town for several years.
The galleries of images shown here reflect the transition of a very
ancient
town (Ipswich is the earliest continuous settlement in England, dating
back
to the seventh or eighth centuries) as it progresses into the twenty
first
century.
They will be updated and extended regularly including non-Ipswich
examples in Gallery 6.
Introduction
What we've included and omitted. Progress so far.
Gallery one
Street signs
Gallery 2
The Wet Dock
Gallery 3
Trade signs
Gallery 4
Architectural features
Gallery 5
Churches
Gallery 6
Vestigial lettering. Examples from outside Ipswich
Street Index, Links/Reading/Comments,
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and don't
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[Note: the letter 'R' we
are using as a background here is taken from
the
cast iron street sign in Gallery 2:
Bridge Street'.]