title A Postcard from Felixstowe, Suffolk - 5th October 2022 intro It's Isobel's non-work day, so we decide to drive to Felixstowe, at the very end of the A14, for a wander around. We start at Landguard Point, next to the Port of Felixstowe and also home to Landguard Fort. Unfortunately, that's closed for a "maintenance day", so we drive to the beachfront and walk around from there. Whereas Great Yarmouth specialises in early Edwardian, Felixstowe's thing seems to be its range of 60s and 70s buildings, but despite this it turns out to be a nice town, only once visited before by Nosher in the 1990s for some sort of day course in a hotel. A week or two before that, there's a meeting at the Town Hall in Eye to discuss the lack of cycling provision in the area. There's a surprisingly good turnout, considering that as usual nothing much will happen as everything's tied up in nebulous "council schemes" for the next lifetime or so. imgp8330 The presentation at the town hall is ready imgp8333 Plans for possible cycle routes around Eye imgp8336 A dude from British Cycling does a talk imgp8342 There's a control tower on a factory imgp8345 The massive Ever Golden at Felixstowe port imgp8349 Isobel takes a photo of wooden stumps imgp8351 A collection of wooden stumps on the shore imgp8354 A juvenile gull sits on the beach imgp8359 Languard Fort imgp8360 The radar tower at the mouth of the Orwell estuary imgp8361 An Evergreen ship docked at Felixstowe imgp8366 Isobel leans into the wind imgp8371 Isobel walks off the pontoon viewpoint imgp8376 Some kind of TV interview is filmed imgp8379 Isobel stomps into the wind imgp8381 There's a large driftwood log on the shore imgp8386 Brutalist concrete towers on Languard Fort imgp8387 A tangle of grey dock cranes imgp8388 A concrete lookout hut imgp8392 A bench with some flowers imgp8394 Landguard Fort is annoyingly closed for the day imgp8396 Flags fly over the fort imgp8398 The Fantasia amusement arcade on the seafront imgp8403 We get an ice cream imgp8404 Felixstowe pier imgp8405 Amusement rides outside the pier imgp8410 Isobel roams around in the amusement arcade imgp8412 1960s apartments near the beach imgp8413 The pier, contra jour imgp8414 The grand frontage of Felixstowe Pier imgp8415 A bit of 1950s glass surrounded by modernism imgp8416 A pair of skeletons look out from a balcony imgp8417 A 1970s classic Wilco motorist discount store imgp8418 A fire escape that goes nowhere imgp8419 The derelict Marlborough Hotel on the seafront imgp8420 The hotel's derelict front entrance imgp8421 The frontage of the Marlborough Hotel imgp8422 The hotel has an optimistic "LA Lounge Bar" imgp8424 Shelters on the seafront imgp8427 The 1930s Regal fish bar's clock is actually right imgp8431 Grooveyard Record shop's front window imgp8432 Isobel buys a record in the shop next door imgp8433 Onion Records: a cool vinyl and CD shop imgp8435 Felixstowe's High Street imgp8437 A long-derelict Burton and Dorothy Perkins imgp8438 Another 1960s building - now a Tesco Express imgp8440 The old-school Palace Cinema and bingo imgp8442 The view from our café stop imgp8443 A bus, and the greengrocer next door imgp8444 We have lunch at a café imgp8449 Felixstowe even has a Wimpy imgp8451 Isobel gets some Slimming World stuff in Iceland imgp8453 A Victorian chip shop on Victoria Street