title A Day in Felixstowe, Suffolk - 11th April 2025 intro We're off to Felixstowe for a walk around, with a trip that starts with a surprise thanks to a roadwork diversion. It's the bizarre but interesting church of St. Andrew - built in the late 1920s in a traditional perpendicular style but almost entirely out of concrete, making it England's first ever reinforced concrete church in the process. After a look around, we then go on a mission for food, hoping for lunch at the Pinsa and Pasta restaurant on the sea front - Alba Chiara - only to find that it has tragically closed. That's followed by another long trek to find something else, which ends up with Prezzo at the other end of town. After that, we hang out on the beach for a bit, and then look around Onion Vinyl before the drive back. imgp1320 The high porch entrance imgp1322 The nave of St. Andrew's imgp1324 Blue light from the Clerestory windows imgp1325 The walls are made entirely of windows imgp1327 The only stained glass is the nave window imgp1329 An aisle, and the church organ imgp1330 Fred and Harry wander around imgp1331 Outside, the church looks like a pumping station imgp1333 Harry roams around the churchyard imgp1334 Another view of the concrete church imgp1335 We head off back to the car imgp1336 A late-Victorian shop parade imgp1338 A turn-of-the-century shop imgp1339 Fred looks around in Felixstowe Emporium imgp1340 There's an old Covid sign imgp1341 A bank, which prosaically says "bank" imgp1343 Looking up Hamilton Road imgp1344 A closed-down Chinese restaurant imgp1347 Felixstowe's one and only night club imgp1348 Walking down to Undercliff Road West imgp1349 Gawdy shops on the seafront imgp1355 Prezzo has some interesting jars on a table imgp1356 Harry and Fred play Battleships imgp1357 Another funky jar of stuff on the bar imgp1358 The gang in Prezzo imgp1360 The impressive Orwell Hotel imgp1362 Felixstowe's railway station imgp1364 On the platform at Felixstowe imgp1367 The other platform - now isolated by a car park imgp1368 Seagulls wait for left-over fish and chips imgp1369 Old-school Victorian advertisement imgp1371 Isobel and Harry in Prezzo imgp1372 There's a bubble machine outside The Works imgp1375 A very cool old Lotus is parked on the street imgp1377 Isobel and Fred on the beach imgp1379 Felixstowe's unused pier imgp1380 Fred looks for interesting pebbles imgp1382 Fred and Harry lob pebbles into the sea imgp1386 Walking on the promenade imgp1388 Isobel walks up Bent Hill imgp1390 Fred looks at records in Onion Vinyl imgp1392 Fred in Onion Vinyl imgp1393 A mass of records and CDs imgp1394 Isobel scopes at records imgp1395 There's another retro Covid sign in the bog wall