title Suffolk County Council Dereliction, and Cotton Flamenco, Suffolk - 22nd October 2005 intro There's a random weekend of abandoned artefacts around the edge of Diss, an African-style choir near the Town Hall in Ipswich and a ramble around the old Suffolk County Council buildings on Rope Walk: some of these have been leased over to the nearby Suffolk College - including St. Edmund House and the old staff club which is allegedly being turned into a Students' Union - whilst the rest are scheduled for sometime demolition, including a 30s classic in the shape of the old Social Service's building of St. Paul's House, and St. Giles, built in the 1970s as a "temporary" office block and which used to house the finance department, known as Paymasters. Then, on the way back, there's a stop off at the Big Giant Head - a carved oak head on Cranley Green Road just outside Eye. Later on, The Boy Phil sorts out an evening of beer at the Cotton Trowel and Hammer, where there's an unexpected flamenco night - just like Barcelona, sort of. imgp2430 A wrecked toilet on Sandy Lane, Diss imgp2431 A concrete pipe is an "anti-traveller" barrier imgp2433 A pipe and standing water imgp2435 An abandoned barbeque, in quite good condition imgp2437 Crowds outside Burton in Ipswich imgp2438 An African-style church choir entertains the crowds imgp2440 The choir outside the Cornhall in Ipswich imgp2451 A bit of Djambe action imgp2458 A small child joins in imgp2463 The Cornhall in Ipswich imgp2464 Crowds mill around outside the Cornhall imgp2465 St. Edmund's House: Nosher's old office imgp2467 The old Suffolk County Council Staff Club imgp2468 It's a 1960s classic imgp2473 St. Giles House: a 1970s "temporary" office block imgp2474 Old rubbish compactor by Suffolk Design and Print imgp2475 The entrance to what was Suffolk Design and Print imgp2476 Glass-block wall in St. Paul's House, Rope Walk imgp2478 St. Paul's back entrance, and SDP's old portakabin imgp2480 St Paul's and St. Giles, Rope Walk imgp2481 The front of the 1930s classic St. Paul's imgp2484 The car park outside St. Paul's imgp2485 The entrance to St. Edmund's car park imgp2486 Building with graffiti, Rope Walk imgp2488 Bollards outside the social club imgp2489 A never-used car park attendant booth imgp2493 Eye Church, viewed over a meadow imgp2497 A leafy lane imgp2498 The "Big Giant Head" on Cranley Green Road imgp2514 Someone pounds fence posts in around a field imgp2521 There's a Flamenco night in the Trowel and Hammer imgp2523 Flamenco musicians in the Cotton Trowel and Hammer imgp2533 More dancing imgp2554 Wavy, The Boy Phil and Bill imgp2557 Someone else has a go imgp2561 The percussionist has a word