Ipswich England in a Day - 1 hour from London, but should you visit?

Thank you for watching. I made an error in terms of Gile Family Statue. Post edit I clicked on the wrong statue on the map! The statue in the video is actually - Ipswich's Grandma statue is a celebration of one of the country's greatest cartoonists who tickled the British public with his satirical sketches.
The rotund bronze statue which stands on Queen Street depicts Carl Giles' most recognisable character who played a huge role in his artwork, which was published in national newspapers for nearly 50 years. My apologies to the Giles Family and the people of Ipswich! A small error but sometimes these happen! Thank you sincerely for watching!

That hope centre was built in the 90s and was originally an Odeon cinema. The odeon closed because it wasn't easy to get to in comparison to cine world.

I've never watched any of your videos before, but I definitely have similar views especially regarding architecture. Modernism is a scourge.

As a us air force brat, we lived on tranmere grove, in 1966, rode the double decker to the movies, snacks and return trip for what- 10- 15p?

I lived in St Clements graveyard for a few weeks, it's the quietest spot in town.

It is used as a venue now, was updated with internal plumbing and a new floor around a year ago. They were going to make it into a modern art centre and show naked photos of women, but that got stopped and now it's basically only used for an annual beer festival and some sailor's club thing. I was able to join a group ringing the bells once, who quickly moved their weekly meeting to a different tower.

They fixed some of the wall around the back since you visited, but still no benches or bins on that side.

River Church is being used quite a lot. Not saturdays, but it's open as a coffee shop through midday midweek and has sunday service.

I grew up in Ipswich through the 60s and 70s it was a hive of activity with bustling shops in the town centre and great engineering factories now all gone. Sad to see it now after years of reconstruction just an empty shell compered to its past. Oh its Town not a City.

When i wo's 17 jears old i have spend a vev jears in Ipswich Suffolk England but Not allone White a Englisch Family tougether her Name wo's Keeble there wo's Christel a German Woman dand her husband Donald and her children Peter Sonya and Esther the Last one wo's me girlfriend. We lief in the Burlington Road 23 and latter in Chaucer Road 13.

Ipswich is an absolute dump full of depressed people , thugs, and drug addicts , I know this because I am a depressed , drug addict thug

Ipswich used to be nice now it’s a crime ridden dump and a dead town

Used to be a jewel in the crown of suffolk now its a shit hole.

Born here in 89 and still here 🤗😁

Very interesting video

Cut out the homophobic crap and you could be good.

Born an bred in Ipswich it used to be a lovely place not now its a terrible place to live to much knife crime an drug dealers

im going there today :)

Horrible place. Complete dump.

it's a shame that you missed the ancienthaus, I would love to know if it is still a book shop

i lived in Ipswich when I was a little girl, nice place to live,

As a resident of Ipswich, its safe to say the town is now an eyesore

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I grew up in Ipswich through the 60s and 70s it was a hive of activity with bustling shops in the town centre and great engineering factories now all gone. Sad to see it now after years of reconstruction just an empty shell compered to its past. Oh its Town not a City.

Lots of dog whistles only a few minutes in. No thanks.

What’s the name of the train you took from London to Ipswich and how much was the commute?

Imagine being so triggered by a fucking flag. What a fucking melt.

Sorry you missed a highlight of central Ipswich which is the Fore Street Swimming baths. A Glorious Victorian building next to St Clement’s church & the waterfront. Agree with you that the city has a lot of potential if only it was better managed by the local council . The people of Ipswich deserve better and should be proud of their history and preserve the wonderful buildings & heritage.

He doesn't know the difference between 20 cent and 16th century buildings. at least he is aware that the town center is a dump.

Wonderful video! I have a friend whose father came to the states from Ipswich and I believe he really enjoyed your video Thank you very much!

The Old Rep, used to be a theatre.

Former finance guy, not afraid to call out the “alphabet people’s flag” 😂 my kind of guy. Enjoyed the video. I’m American, but some of my ancestors that originally came to America were from Ipswich, so it’s on my bucket list. This video was a great introduction. Thanks so much.

i was born and live in ipswich i like your video its really good and fun.

A lot of inaccuracies and wrong supposition. However some of the videography is good and yes Ipswich is worth visiting. You missed a Norman Foster building and a couple of other jewels in Ipswichs crown.

The Indian tories cannot rape our history and culture fast enough. Cambridge is all about biotechnology and genomics these days, probably Ipswich will go the same way with the descendants of the original inhabitants culled off.

Some nice drone footage there, who shot that :)

Good one. Art gallery excellent. Pubs nice touch. Subbed.)

The statue is "Grandma", a character by Carl Giles the cartoonist.