Ipswich Historic
Lettering launched in 6.03 & moved to this
domain (with a redirect from our
old GeoCities home) on 17.9.09.
Recent updates:
Palmer's Door Mats,
defunct post-box, Scarborow, The Mill
(Cranfields), The Big Query sculpture, London (Covent Garden), Crown & Anchor, Electric
House, Tavern Street, Post Office, ICA, Ipswich Society review, 'Victorian' pillar box, Vicarage,
Woodbridge Road, Captain's Houses,
Old Neptune Inn, Curson
Lodge, Foxhall Rd Co-op, Dog's Head Street, Prince Obolensky, Price The Bootmaker, Exchange Chambers, Carr
Street Tudor House, 'Belle Vue
Retreat', Rosehill
Library, Ragged Girls' School, Anglesea Road Hospital, Alexandra Park
updated 23.5.2012
The Big Query
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
at least to the seventh century) as it progresses through the twenty
first
century.
They will be updated and extended regularly including non-Ipswich
examples in Gallery 7.
Introduction
What we've included and omitted. Progress so far.
Gallery 1
Street signs
Gallery 2
The Wet Dock
Gallery 3
Trade signs
Gallery 4
Architectural features
Gallery 5
Churches
Gallery 7
Examples from outside Ipswich
Themed pages:
At-a-glance tour, These we have lost, Pubs & Off licences, Rosehill Library case study
Street
Index, Street name derivations, Links/Reading/Comments,
Contact us
[Note: the letter 'R' we
are using as a background here is taken from
the
cast iron street sign in Gallery 2:
Bridge Street'.]