title A Postcard from Stowmarket, Suffolk - 5th July 2022 intro The Tuesday morning bike ride is extended by adding in a there-and-back to Stowmarket, after it was realised that it's only an additional six miles from Cotton. That makes it 32 miles around, which is a bit more of a stomp than usual, but it gives a chance to have a look around the town which was previously known mostly for its railway station, and some early 2000s visits to sticky-carpet nightclub Browns and/or Jokers. On the last leg, through Eye, a few of the Piggy Tail Trail pigs are spotted. imgp0058 The austere URC church on Ipswich Street imgp0059 A classic small town Post Offie imgp0060 An old laundrette imgp0061 A 1960s block of shops on Ipswich Street imgp0063 The Mod Moped on Market Place imgp0067 The Queen's Head on Station Road West imgp0070 A little alleyway off Buttermarket imgp0071 A building from 1924 imgp0073 Nice windows on a 1903 shop imgp0075 Looking down Bury Street imgp0076 A grand, but derelict, building on Station Road imgp0077 Stowmarket's grand Victorian Station imgp0080 Stowmarket Taxi's what? imgp0082 A bright green Class 66 66004 "Shed" passes through imgp0083 The train to London stops on platform 1 imgp0084 A boarded-up warehouse by Stowmarket station imgp0086 A platform-side view of Stowmarket Station imgp0087 Class 66 66786 rumbles past the signal box imgp0090 An old corrugated-tin chapel on Creeting Road imgp0091 The Little Wellington pub on Stowupland Road imgp0092 Thurston's workshop in Old Newton imgp0093 A curious old petrol pump at Thurston's imgp0094 The former Shoulder of Mutton pub in Old Newton imgp0095 A view over the wheat at Wickham Skeith imgp0100 The Four Horseshoes in Thornham Magna imgp0101 A bright pink pig in Eye imgp0102 A Picasso-style pig outside Number 1 Cross Street imgp0104 Another pig on Lambseth Street imgp0106 A spotty piglet on Belland's Way imgp0107 A pig covered in flowers on the top of Belland's Way