| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? 15:43 - Nov 28 with 3781 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
I only come on match days, so maybe I'm missing something. Where do you keep all the culture? |  |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 20:10 - Nov 28 with 1155 views | jontysnut |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 20:06 - Nov 28 by Nthsuffolkblue |
And your street runs all the way into Bradford! |
Well no, but if I walk down to Leeds/Bradford Road |  | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 20:17 - Nov 28 with 1136 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 20:10 - Nov 28 by jontysnut |
Well no, but if I walk down to Leeds/Bradford Road |
My comments were in response to "even if not all the events were up my street!" without realising you do live that close to Bradford! |  |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 20:20 - Nov 28 with 1129 views | jontysnut |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 20:17 - Nov 28 by Nthsuffolkblue |
My comments were in response to "even if not all the events were up my street!" without realising you do live that close to Bradford! |
* slaps palm to forehead* | | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 14:53 - Dec 1 with 1048 views | HotShotHamish |
We have 4, hopefully soon to be 5, natinal portfolio organisations in our town.
Dance East
Gecko
Wolsey Theatre
Eastern Angles
Hopefully the re-vamped museum.
We have the largest theatre stage in East Anglia at the Regent
We have several new smaller music venues
We are easily the culture capital of the East so why not Ipswich as the next city of culture?
Talking Ipswich down is a pastime for many residents so it's often portrayed as a dour place with nothing going on but that couldn't be further from the truth! |  | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:28 - Dec 1 with 1029 views | bournemouthblue |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:48 - Nov 28 by Cotty |
Don't we need a cathedral first or something? |
Portman Road is the Cathedral |  |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:32 - Dec 1 with 1024 views | chantryblueboy |
Fed up of people claiming to love the football team as much as anyone that lives in Ipswich then slagging the town off at every opportunity | | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:46 - Dec 1 with 1003 views | NedPlimpton |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:32 - Dec 1 by chantryblueboy |
Fed up of people claiming to love the football team as much as anyone that lives in Ipswich then slagging the town off at every opportunity |
Do you have to love the town in order to love the club? |  | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:56 - Dec 1 with 994 views | DJR |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:32 - Dec 1 by chantryblueboy |
Fed up of people claiming to love the football team as much as anyone that lives in Ipswich then slagging the town off at every opportunity |
Agreed, and I haven't lived there since 1978.
From Wikipedia, and this is certainly something that should be highlighted in any bid.
"The claim of Ipswich is to be the 'oldest English town', and is made in a quite specific sense. The claim of Ipswich is grounded upon the fact that it never was an Iron Age or Romano-British town, but at its core was and is the oldest still continuing town to have been established and developed by the English. It has an unbroken history of community as a town since early Anglo-Saxon times.
In this claim,
by 'oldest' is meant 'first originated or established', and also 'still continuing and existing on that site':
by 'English' is meant 'established (as a town) and occupied by peoples collectively identified by their use of the Old English language' (subsuming the various migrant and native peoples who coalesced in the area now called England during the 5th to 7th centuries):
by 'town' is meant, originating as a densely-occupied non-rural community comprising a full range of specialized trades and occupations, with its own industrial and domestic components, serviced by a market-place and forming a centre for mercantile activity, provisioned externally from its hinterland, and so necessarily having had some form of local governance or official organization: a town-like component related economically and politically to a wider region of agrarian occupation under a single power or collective identity."
One thing that does let Ipswich down is the lack of a castle or cathedral. It did have a castle but Henry II destroyed it in 1176, |  | | |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 16:03 - Dec 1 with 970 views | chantryblueboy |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:46 - Dec 1 by NedPlimpton |
Do you have to love the town in order to love the club? |
Ipswich Town Football Club | | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 16:15 - Dec 1 with 937 views | PrideOfTheEast |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 14:53 - Dec 1 by HotShotHamish |
We have 4, hopefully soon to be 5, natinal portfolio organisations in our town.
Dance East
Gecko
Wolsey Theatre
Eastern Angles
Hopefully the re-vamped museum.
We have the largest theatre stage in East Anglia at the Regent
We have several new smaller music venues
We are easily the culture capital of the East so why not Ipswich as the next city of culture?
Talking Ipswich down is a pastime for many residents so it's often portrayed as a dour place with nothing going on but that couldn't be further from the truth! |
Noting too that one of the criteria to win is around potential to improve, in addition to a demonstration of what's already there.
Think it would be great. Not sure the town would be able to demonstrate lots pulling in one (the same) direction to win though. | | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 16:59 - Dec 1 with 895 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:32 - Dec 1 by chantryblueboy |
Fed up of people claiming to love the football team as much as anyone that lives in Ipswich then slagging the town off at every opportunity |
Don't blame you, people should be proud of where they are from!
Haven't lived there for best part of 20 years but Suffolk is a beautiful county. Ipswich has it's struggles these days from what I hear but can't imagine that's any different too many similar towns. There are far worse places to live in the UK, that's for sure.
Can't imagine there is much investment or a lot to go into the town centre for these days?
It's interesting to me whenever I am back now their is John Lewis popped up somewhere else on the outskirts.
Also Gen Z doesn't really go out anymore like millennials did when we were 18 to early 30s, so it just all seems a bit quiet.
Still amazing Tudor era architecture that I instantly notice when I am visiting, I never really took a blind bit of notice of it growing up there!
Establishing in the PL would help the local economy no end. |  |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 17:10 - Dec 1 with 860 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 16:59 - Dec 1 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Don't blame you, people should be proud of where they are from!
Haven't lived there for best part of 20 years but Suffolk is a beautiful county. Ipswich has it's struggles these days from what I hear but can't imagine that's any different too many similar towns. There are far worse places to live in the UK, that's for sure.
Can't imagine there is much investment or a lot to go into the town centre for these days?
It's interesting to me whenever I am back now their is John Lewis popped up somewhere else on the outskirts.
Also Gen Z doesn't really go out anymore like millennials did when we were 18 to early 30s, so it just all seems a bit quiet.
Still amazing Tudor era architecture that I instantly notice when I am visiting, I never really took a blind bit of notice of it growing up there!
Establishing in the PL would help the local economy no end. |
Why should people be proud of where they're from?! I was born in Chelmsford, but I'm not particularly proud of it. Seems like just another bog-standard commuter town to me.
I guess there's a bit of pride in the first ever radio broadcast to have happened there, but other than that I'm struggling! | |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 17:25 - Dec 1 with 834 views | MattinLondon |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 17:10 - Dec 1 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Why should people be proud of where they're from?! I was born in Chelmsford, but I'm not particularly proud of it. Seems like just another bog-standard commuter town to me.
I guess there's a bit of pride in the first ever radio broadcast to have happened there, but other than that I'm struggling! |
People do not have to be proud of where they come from.
In context of this thread, Ipswich isn’t the most glamorous of towns but it certainly isn’t the worst. Compared to many parts of London it’s much better.
Ipswich gets a bad press from many especially from people who live in one of the many one-horse towns around Suffolk. If I was to ever move back to Suffolk it’ll have to be Ipswich as all the other towns are far too dull to contemplate living in. Plus many residents slag it the town off as well despite many of them never living anywhere else in their lives. [Post edited 1 Dec 2025 17:25]
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 17:42 - Dec 1 with 786 views | positivity |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 16:03 - Dec 1 by chantryblueboy |
Ipswich Town Football Club |
do you have to love the club to love the town? | |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 17:59 - Dec 1 with 753 views | chantryblueboy |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 17:42 - Dec 1 by positivity |
do you have to love the club to love the town? |
You don’t have to love either, but I don’t like it when people claim to love the club but slag the town off as I’ve said, especially those that aren’t from the town | | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 18:03 - Dec 1 with 751 views | positivity |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 17:59 - Dec 1 by chantryblueboy |
You don’t have to love either, but I don’t like it when people claim to love the club but slag the town off as I’ve said, especially those that aren’t from the town |
what about those who claim to love the club, but slag it off? | |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 23:13 - Feb 16 with 345 views | BouncebackIpswich |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 18:03 - Dec 1 by positivity |
what about those who claim to love the club, but slag it off? |
Fantastic reply. And sorry for the month's old bump! |  | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 00:28 - Feb 17 with 295 views | hoppy |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 15:56 - Dec 1 by DJR |
Agreed, and I haven't lived there since 1978.
From Wikipedia, and this is certainly something that should be highlighted in any bid.
"The claim of Ipswich is to be the 'oldest English town', and is made in a quite specific sense. The claim of Ipswich is grounded upon the fact that it never was an Iron Age or Romano-British town, but at its core was and is the oldest still continuing town to have been established and developed by the English. It has an unbroken history of community as a town since early Anglo-Saxon times.
In this claim,
by 'oldest' is meant 'first originated or established', and also 'still continuing and existing on that site':
by 'English' is meant 'established (as a town) and occupied by peoples collectively identified by their use of the Old English language' (subsuming the various migrant and native peoples who coalesced in the area now called England during the 5th to 7th centuries):
by 'town' is meant, originating as a densely-occupied non-rural community comprising a full range of specialized trades and occupations, with its own industrial and domestic components, serviced by a market-place and forming a centre for mercantile activity, provisioned externally from its hinterland, and so necessarily having had some form of local governance or official organization: a town-like component related economically and politically to a wider region of agrarian occupation under a single power or collective identity."
One thing that does let Ipswich down is the lack of a castle or cathedral. It did have a castle but Henry II destroyed it in 1176, |
Such a shame… Facters used to love that castle as a kid… |  |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 04:33 - Feb 17 with 260 views | Benters |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 17:10 - Dec 1 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Why should people be proud of where they're from?! I was born in Chelmsford, but I'm not particularly proud of it. Seems like just another bog-standard commuter town to me.
I guess there's a bit of pride in the first ever radio broadcast to have happened there, but other than that I'm struggling! |
Yeah but Chelmsford has a new Railway Station at Beaulieu Park,I don’t mind Chelmsford as it goes. |  |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 04:38 - Feb 17 with 258 views | Benters |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 16:59 - Dec 1 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Don't blame you, people should be proud of where they are from!
Haven't lived there for best part of 20 years but Suffolk is a beautiful county. Ipswich has it's struggles these days from what I hear but can't imagine that's any different too many similar towns. There are far worse places to live in the UK, that's for sure.
Can't imagine there is much investment or a lot to go into the town centre for these days?
It's interesting to me whenever I am back now their is John Lewis popped up somewhere else on the outskirts.
Also Gen Z doesn't really go out anymore like millennials did when we were 18 to early 30s, so it just all seems a bit quiet.
Still amazing Tudor era architecture that I instantly notice when I am visiting, I never really took a blind bit of notice of it growing up there!
Establishing in the PL would help the local economy no end. |
When walking through any town always look up above the shops,the shops will always change from time to time,but the higher floors mostly stay the same.
Lots of nice looking buildings if people look.
I think like many town centres Ipswich has suffered a bit.But it’s the same all over and thanks to online shopping I guess. | |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 06:39 - Feb 17 with 241 views | michaeldownunder |
I was in Ipswich in Feb this year, after doing a tour around Scandinavia. First time I had been back for about 10 years. Have to say there may be some cultural area's but the center is like a rotten cesspit. Dirty, run down cheap shops selling mostly rubbish, litter everywhere, maybe I went on a bad day for the Town. Down vote me etc but it has been let go down hill fast. All most every other shop was empty. The classic case of out of town shopping centers leaving the main street to rot. |  | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 06:55 - Feb 17 with 226 views | ashtonscoffeecup |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 06:39 - Feb 17 by michaeldownunder |
I was in Ipswich in Feb this year, after doing a tour around Scandinavia. First time I had been back for about 10 years. Have to say there may be some cultural area's but the center is like a rotten cesspit. Dirty, run down cheap shops selling mostly rubbish, litter everywhere, maybe I went on a bad day for the Town. Down vote me etc but it has been let go down hill fast. All most every other shop was empty. The classic case of out of town shopping centers leaving the main street to rot. |
The Town centre is horrible, if the stadium wasn't in the town centre i'd never venture down that way. woodbridge is where id pick to do my "town stuff"
i dont want my kids walking through ipswich | | | |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 07:08 - Feb 17 with 206 views | Benters |
| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 06:39 - Feb 17 by michaeldownunder |
I was in Ipswich in Feb this year, after doing a tour around Scandinavia. First time I had been back for about 10 years. Have to say there may be some cultural area's but the center is like a rotten cesspit. Dirty, run down cheap shops selling mostly rubbish, litter everywhere, maybe I went on a bad day for the Town. Down vote me etc but it has been let go down hill fast. All most every other shop was empty. The classic case of out of town shopping centers leaving the main street to rot. |
Yeah you are right about the out of town shopping centres. | |
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| Ipswich bids for City of Culture?!? on 08:25 - Feb 17 with 151 views | C_Jam_Blue |
Places like Edinburgh and London renowned for their culture don't need these City of Culture years. Where they make a real difference is places that need to inject some energy into their cities and culture. Some of these Capital/City of Culture years can absolutely transform a city. Glasgow, Rotterdam and to some extent Liverpool really did an amazing job in changing perceptions about these places. It was a huge joke in Glasgow when they were announced European Capital of Culture but it's become an amazing place to visit/work etc as a result.
Not all of these years of culture are a success, apart from a financial scandal Coventry didn't amount to much. But if it was done well, it could do a great job for Ipswich. Let's face it, apart from the greatest football team, the world does not no a great deal about Ipswich. | | | |
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