Dockside at ground-level (The Wet Dock)
Having looked at the lettered dockside elements at ground level on
'The island',
it made sense to
continue round Albion Wharf and include dockside furniture on the
northern quays. (See
our Wet Dock map if you're confused.)
2013 images
Past DanceEast stands the desolate, unroofed collonade
whose columns have weathered to reveal the previous layers of of paint.
Abandoned since the Irish banks which funded the Waterfront
Regeneration went bust in 2008, Ipswichians wait to see what will
happen to their half-finished Wet Dock.
Above: the first steel ringis
unused for mooring at this point.
Further down is a plain cast bollard sitting on a double
row of stone setts. From
here is a range of mooring-rings held by staples set into the stonework
of the quay. All of the images on this page combine to make a gallery
conveying the beauty of decay and a tinge of wistfulness for times when
the Wet Dock was a hive of industry (literally), albeit probably
infused with smoke, smells, noise and poorly-paid labour.
Most are in regular use to secure the barges and floating
restaurant which are moored in front of the Custom House.
Further around Neptune Quay and into the car park which
in 2013 stands adjacent to Orwell Quay and we find surviving ground
level evidence of Ransome's Orwell Works.
Related pages:
The Question Mark
Christie's
warehouse
Bridge
Street
Burton Son & Sanders / Paul's
College Street
Coprolite
Street
Cranfield's
Flour Mill
Custom House
Trinity
House buoy
Edward
Fison Ltd
Ground-level dockside furniture
on: 'The
island',
Ransome's
Orwell Works
Ipswich
Whaling Station?
Isaac Lord
Neptune Inn
clock, garden
and interior
Isaac
Lord 2
The Island
John Good and Sons
Merchant
seamen's memorial
The Mill
Nova Scotia
House
New Cut East
Old Bell
Quay
nameplates
R&W Paul malting
company
Ransomes
Steam
Packet Hotel
Stoke
Bridge(s)
Waterfront
Regeneration Scheme
Wolsey's
Gate
A chance to
compare
Wet Dock 1970s with 2004
Wet Dock maps
Davy's
illustration of the laying of the Wet Dock lock foundation stone,
1839
Outside
the Wet Dock
Maritime Ipswich '82 festival
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