Ipswich Historic Lettering launched in 6.03 & moved to this
domain (with a redirect from our
old GeoCities home) on 17.9.09.
At-a-glance tour of the site.
Recent updates: Shoreditch,
Appleby-in-Westmorland,
Union
Street, V.A. Marriott, Bishop's Hill, Bury
St Edmunds, The Globe pub, St
Lawrence Church, Wells, Grey
Coat School, Wrestlers, Ipswich High School, Roundwood Road, The Emperor, The Blooming Fuchsia, Hales Chemist, Saxmundham,
Isaac Lord pump, The
Hidden Lettering of St Helen's Street, Bourne
Park, Blooming Fuchsia R.I.P., town centre Co-op store R.I.P., Green & Hatfield, Whitby
updated 27.8.10
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 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
At-a-glance tour, Street
Index, 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'.]