The Changing Dock
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The black and white photograph above was purchased from
the Ipswich Transport
Museum some years ago. The vantage point is from beneath the Doric
collonade
of Paul's maltings, next door to the Old
Customs
House. Depicting a wet day with the double track tramway lines curving
away towards Cliff Quay, it is not clear when this photograph was
taken, but we could
hazard the late seventies, some time before the Maritime Ipswich
festival.
Just visible is the lettering 'R & W Paul Ltd' on the corrugated
iron
cladding facing the water, much later removed and the whole maltings
refurbished
for Contship Ltd and currently Aston Graham Solicitors. You can see the
glass and steel version of the building
on the recent colour photograph, behind the wheeled crane in the
foreground.
A sailing barge used as a restaurant is moored in front of the Customs
House.
More detail can be seen on the close-up (below); as far as we can see
the
brick and stone warehouse further down the quay (now the Slathouse
Harbour Hotel) doesn't at this time bear
the lettering 'John Good & Sons (G.C.B.) Ltd'.
This may help to date the monochrome photograph more accurately. The Waterfront Regeneration Scheme
has resulted in the complete demolition of the silo beneath which these
photographs were taken; only the columns remain.
... and on a September evening, 2004
The Isaac Lord dockside
buildings are visible
above the deck of the barge and further down the new apartment blocks
are
partially obscured by the central pillar. The pillar to the right
obscures
some of the new block being built on Coprolite
Street. Now completed, the gap between the apartment developments
on Neptune Dock awaits the new Suffolk University.
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