New
Cut East / The Island
Photographs courtesy Peter Turtill
From the fenced-off part of the Island site, few people see the
street sign:
'NEW CUT EAST'
2013 images
The Harbourmaster's House and Lock Cottages. These properties
were constructed around 1840 besides the original lock gates for the
Wet Dock (see our Wet Dock map) so that
the men in charge of the lock "shall be present at all times". These
brick
buildings once housed the Harbour master and his assistant. The clock
stopped at one. The sign to the left reads:
'INTERCONTINENTAL
UTILITIES
(GROUP) PLC'
Across New Cut is the road called New Cut West. Felaw Maltings
to the right and The Steamboat
Tavern to the left of Felaw Street (site of a William Paul Tenements Trust building
and the Bake Office lettering).
Close-up
Beside the Harbour Master's Office is this boarded-up building.
New Cut
2014 images
Looking at the other photographs on this page, one would barely
know that water surrounds and defines this area. So here are two views
of New Cut and running above it, New Cut East. These rotting vessels
are testimony to the lack of shipping here in modern times; so
different to the era of the steamers which departed from outside The
Steamboat Tavern to Felixstowe, Harwich and London while barges moved
up and down the Gipping serving Needham Market and Stowmarket.
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Christie's
warehouse
Bridge
Street
Burton Son & Sanders
College Street
Coprolite
Street
Cranfield's
Flour Mill
Custom House
Trinity
House buoy
Edward
Fison Ltd
Ground-level dockside furniture
on: 'The
island', the northern quays
and 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
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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