After yesterday’s glorious dawn, today is somewhat dull, grey, cold and damp. Today will be about mainly working indoors.

I have broken out of Ipswich and Shotley Peninsula in my quest for more Edgelands locations. There are a number of locations I have found around Stowmarket but access to the right viewpoint at my preferred shooting times will prove difficult. Nevertheless, it is a pivotal moment in extending the series. I have not yet found significant interest in the east of Ipswich other than marking down the Crane retail park as a different form of Edgeland. This site looks bleak I have to say and I much preferred to see the old foundry with the accumulated miss-mash of added on buildings and sheds. Talking of sheds, I really need to get down to Paper Mill Lane and record that shed before it collapses.

The River Rat is a tributary the Gipping that was in use as a navigation shipping explosives downstream to Ipswich until a massive explosion in 1871 wiped out Prentices Guncotton factory. Seeing a Bonfire night poster has a double-entendre for Stowmarket methinks.

Lorry parks and pull-ins seem to be an Edgelands hallmark. I’ll have to be on the lookout for more.