(Above) The £200,000 marble and granite sculpture on the UCS Ipswich waterfront campus. Variously described as a “significant piece of public art” and “a frivolous waste of money”.
(Below) Two sunny views down the River Orwell from the coastal footpath taken at the foot of the Orwell Bridge.
A dire game with a draw just about the right result.
Millwall’s best chance saw Lowry hit a post, while for Town Luke Hyam forced Forde into a smart save and Michael Chopra should have done better with a header as full-time approached.
Still a four point haul from two Easter fixtures is not to be scoffed at particularly as teams below Town were also picking up points.
Despite a continuing good run of form the Blues are still just three points above the drop zone.
Yet another free museum in the capital that is stuffed to the gunnels with fascinating stuff.
With everything from beam engines to lunar rock samples you could lose yourself in here for hours.
Pictured is the flywheel of a mill engine, one of many exhibits in the energy hall.
Watching the Harlem Globetrotters in the flesh is something I’ve been meaning to do for forty years since watching them perform on TV in the 1970’s.
If you’re after some serious basketball action then look elsewhere but for an evening of humour, showbiz excess and some sublime ball skills all mixed together then this is for you.
Meadowlark Lemon is the player that I most remember from years ago – although he’s long since retired having clocked up a staggering 16,000 games – and while none of the current team come close to him as a showman, there’s still enough of a presence about the team to have sold out Wembley Arena tonight and presumably most other venues that their World Tour takes in.
Many times I’ve taken a pass on visits to the V&A in favour of the neighbouring Science and Natural History Museums. And what I’ve missed! Some fantastic exhibits that improve with the number of floors you ascend (and as the crowds thin out).
My favourites (for this visit at least as there will be many others) are the architecture gallery which houses some wonderful architect’s scale models, including one of the Sea and Ships Pavilion from the Festival of Britain, the ceramics gallery, and the full size replica of Trajan’s Column.
Debbage Yachting’s lifting crane on New Cut West.
Construction of the Wet Dock in the 1840’s involved the damming of the River Orwell at Stoke Bridge and the digging out of a new channel known as “New Cut” to the west of the current day Waterfront.
It was in this new channel that the original lock gates were sited although these proved to be too small and were dismantled and replaced.
Pleasure steamers destined for Felixstowe and Harwich sailed regularly from the New Cut landing stage although there is no obvious evidence of this today.
Low tide along New Cut reveals all sorts of hidden “treasures”, including barnacle encrusted shopping trollies, rusty bikes, traffic cones and the carcasses of several rotting boats including this one that is still secured to it mooring.
Juxtaposed just a matter of yards away million pound yachts and motor launches bob up and down in Ipswich Marina.
One of those days were the poor light sucks the colour out of even the best of views in this case the estuary of the River Stour at Manningtree where the low tide reveals large expanses of mud flats.
George Stuart Sherrington and brother William Staunton Sherrington, were one of a number of pupils of Ipswich School instrumental in the formation of the Ipswich Association Club (Ipswich Town FC in its early guise). Another brother, Charles Scott Sherrington, also a former student of Ipswich School, was knighted for his services to Science in 1922 and in 1932 was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Sir Charles was certainly a sportsman (he rowed and played rugby while studying at Cambridge) and, along with his two brothers, would almost certainly have played football, but I’ve been trying to establish whether or not he actually played for ITFC.
In a match report published by the East Anglian Daily Times, a “CS Sherrington” was listed as playing for Ipswich Association against Woodbridge Grammar School on Saturday 18th October 1879. “GS Sherrington” was also listed, so it seems unlikely that the paper made a typo with the initials (although that was a frequent occurrence back then).
So, based on the above, it would appear that ITFC can boast a Nobel Laureate amongst its former players!!!
However, is one EADT match report sufficient proof? Since ITFC was founded in 1878 Charles would have been 21 years old, already at university and so would clearly not have had such an active part in the formation of the Club (unlike his brothers who at 19 and 17 were more heavily involved).
Eastwood & Moyse in the definitive ITFC History “The Men Who Made The Town” (Almeida Books 1986) could find no evidence to suggest that Charles played for Ipswich (page 20 of the book if you can find a copy) but one very reputable source – Fellows of the Royal Society – are clearly convinced that he did…
Fellows of the Royal Society Article
I can’t think of another British football club that can boast a Nobel Prize winner as a former player so it would be nice to find conclusive proof!
Your help/thoughts/advice would be most appreciated.
St Mary’s Church, Playford – pictured here in April 2009 – the final resting place of the “Friend of Slaves”, Thomas Clarkson.
