| Butter Market and tower ramparts 22:26 - May 8 with 2182 views | FrimleyBlue |
Are they no longer shopping centres?
Cant say they were great over 20 years ago. But what are they now? |  |
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| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 22:30 - May 8 with 2131 views | SitfcB |
They’re shopping centres to us but to outsiders they’re obviously not 
Tower Ramparts isn’t what it used to be tbf, went down hill when they modernised it and took away that fabulous lift. |  |
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| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 22:33 - May 8 with 2105 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 22:30 - May 8 by SitfcB |
They’re shopping centres to us but to outsiders they’re obviously not
Tower Ramparts isn’t what it used to be tbf, went down hill when they modernised it and took away that fabulous lift. |
I cant quite remember if the last time I used it was when town had a club shop in it. Used to be on the ground floor.
There was also at one point an f1 shop in there.
Used to love the cafe tho and 50p milk lol. | |
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| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 23:15 - May 8 with 1942 views | Mark |
Tower Ramparts has been renamed Sailmakers. There is an interesting retro computer games shop upstairs, and an HMV. |  | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 23:55 - May 8 with 1849 views | JimmyJazz |
They are indoor walkways, useful when it's raining
Sailmakers has a decent toilet to be fair |  |
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| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 07:41 - May 9 with 1548 views | blueprint |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 22:30 - May 8 by SitfcB |
They’re shopping centres to us but to outsiders they’re obviously not
Tower Ramparts isn’t what it used to be tbf, went down hill when they modernised it and took away that fabulous lift. |
Is the Mint Quarter open yet? |  | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 07:46 - May 9 with 1529 views | lazyblue |
Not any more , the crap in them is embarrassing |  | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 08:13 - May 9 with 1440 views | Axeldalai_lama |
That was pretty funny. I imagine he meant big designer destination shopping type places. To overthink it, loveable as it is, Ipswich is probably as far as you can get from a place that a thoroughly minted young footballer and his family would go to buy designer clobber and partake in high end over priced coffee shops and the like. |  | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 08:15 - May 9 with 1418 views | belgablue |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 08:13 - May 9 by Axeldalai_lama |
That was pretty funny. I imagine he meant big designer destination shopping type places. To overthink it, loveable as it is, Ipswich is probably as far as you can get from a place that a thoroughly minted young footballer and his family would go to buy designer clobber and partake in high end over priced coffee shops and the like. |
But they can get everything they need in Coes! |  |
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| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 08:30 - May 9 with 1340 views | Europa |
Having worked in Littlewoods as a casual job from Day One, was excited to take my Czech kids to Tower Ramparts about six years ago. Left feeling utterly embarrassed. And I've never understood the point of the Buttermarket (they took away Dolls Hospital for a start - sacrilege). I wouldn't classify them as shopping centres today. More like glorified arcades. Even my local city Hradec Králové (pop. approx. 100K) has a decent shopping centre (Futurum), but I wouldn't say town centres here are dying (yet) on the same scale as in the UK. So, yeah, I can see his point. |  | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 10:30 - May 9 with 1113 views | urbanpenguin |
I suspect that Zaha Hadid and McKenna (and I) agree that the Buttermarket is the worst building in Ipswich. |  | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 11:05 - May 9 with 1034 views | LandOfMickyStockwell |
They're shopping precincts.
Can you even buy a block of butter in the butter market? 250g minimum size, beware of the 200g shrink-flation offers out there. |  | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 13:17 - May 9 with 895 views | The_Major |
And of course, before Tower Ramparts, we had the Carr Precinct. Not a shopping centre really, but it really was a strange place. That central open air parade always felt so desolate - and I suppose there was also Greyfriars for a short time, and although that's before my time, I have seen photos of the Pricerite supermarket on Franciscan Way at the bottom of St Francis Tower. A very strange place to put such a business.
Compared to other places, Sailmakers and Buttermarket are microscopic centres, even as far back as the eighties, I can remember going to Queensgate in Peterborough and thinking it went on for miles.
And then I went to the Metro Centre in Gateshead. They had a flipping roller coaster in it. I know there's been plans over the years to build a much bigger one in Ipswich - the Mint Quarter on Cox Lane/Woolworths, and filling in the High Street/Crown Street/Lloyds Avenue/Westgate Street block to create Crowngates - the idea being that the Crown & Anchor building would be the main entrance, and M & S and Debenhams were already there to be part of it.
Can't see it happening now - although I still think you could build a big out of town one somewhere in the area for Ipswich and Colchester. |  | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 17:10 - May 9 with 690 views | OldFart71 |
It would be a good idea if something was done with the old Debenhams site. What an eyesore for a town centre. Sorry I have to say this but Norwich is much better
Still it evens itself out with that sh*thole called Carrot Road. | | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 17:16 - May 9 with 670 views | The_Major |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 17:10 - May 9 by OldFart71 |
It would be a good idea if something was done with the old Debenhams site. What an eyesore for a town centre. Sorry I have to say this but Norwich is much better
Still it evens itself out with that sh*thole called Carrot Road. |
The old Woolworths building is a far bigger eyesore. Apparently on the upper floors of it is the old meat prep room from when there used to be a meat and fish counter in Woolworths (older readers may recall the water flowing over a sculpture of a salmon behind the fish counter) - by all accounts, the room hasn't been touched since the counters closed over forty years ago, and has had generations of pigeons living there because the skylights are smashed. | | | |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 17:23 - May 9 with 650 views | Miaow |
| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 08:13 - May 9 by Axeldalai_lama |
That was pretty funny. I imagine he meant big designer destination shopping type places. To overthink it, loveable as it is, Ipswich is probably as far as you can get from a place that a thoroughly minted young footballer and his family would go to buy designer clobber and partake in high end over priced coffee shops and the like. |
My season ticket neighbour spotted Azón and his other half at Braintree Freeport the other month.
I propose we open a Planet Blue there to fully ITFCify north Essex and push back the West Ham hordes. |  |
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| Butter Market and tower ramparts on 19:17 - May 9 with 513 views | Mark |
Town suffered the double-whammy of shoppers moving to out of town retail parks when those opened and then shopping online from companies who have low overheads and pay very little tax. It is sad what town has become as I used to love going to shops like Woolworths and Debenhams. I doubt it will ever be what it was. | | | |
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