Exploring Ipswich Town centre | Marina & Historic Town Centre Walking Tour 

Gave me goose bumps watching this video. I walked those streets a 1000 times. Miss Ipswich so much. Love from Malaysia

Love Ipswich, it’s a great town. Lots of history around the marine area. Its industrial stamp is located worldwide. Like many towns and cities in the UK, it’s trying to reinvent itself after the industrial revolution. That takes generations not decades. Cambridge and Norwich, didn’t have the industry Ipswich had, so those places don’t have to change like Ipswich is doing right now… Once the waterfront is complete and connects to the town better (‘The link project’) it will be a very smart town. It will happen one day. Ipswich has a bright future. It’s just a bit stuck at the moment.

I moved to Ipswich about a year and a half ago (for the second time) it's a lovely town with much to recommend...historic buildings and spacious parks, its extremely close to coast ( it sits on estuary) and countryside. Town centre needs work( as do most) and certain areas are not great, however I really like it and feel at home.

Ipswich was my home town. Moved there from the country when I was Five. The streets used to be cram packed with traffic! Seeing it here, it looks like a ghost town, with no traffic. A lot of the buildings I knew, have gone, including my old school, Tower Ramparts. In my days, the docks were working, and the sailing barges shipped goods between Ipswich and Europe. One of my school mates worked on one. My college teacher was waxing lyrical about the sails, and how sad it was that they were being converted to diesel. My mate said the sooner his boat was converted, the better he'd like it!. It used to have Ransome and Rapier, close to the docks, a factory that made the biggest walking Draglines in the world. Gone many years now! It also had a brewery, and maltings. The maltings have all been converted to flats, and the brewery, another casualty. Even my college, Ipswich Civic College, built brand new in 1960 has gone! Used to go paddling at Freston as a kid. Loads of memories! .

Moved here last year, and love it!

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Great video thanks 4 sharing

I support Ipswich Town have done since 1976, I was debating weather I should move there for good to be nearer my club and this video has made my mind up. So I'm upping sticks from North Wales and moving to this lovely and interesting town so thank you for your help.

Thank you for sharing your journeys with everyone on RU-vid! Really appreciate your point of view on things.

So nice watching this! I grew up not far from Ipswich and some of the biggest moments in my life were spent there - dating, nights out, time spent walking through the park in the summer. I’ve since moved quite far away and sometimes get this overwhelming urge to visit so this was lovely to watch and to almost feel as though I’m back there!

I enjoyed this video. Being from Ipswich, which although it is a town is quite large, I know there are many more buildings and parks to see. I'd have liked to have seen Norman Foster's award winning building (purely because I worked there when it opened in 1975!) and has already been mentioned Christchurch Park especially the arboretums. I moved away to Somerset aged 21 many moons ago and I have heard people saying Ipswich is awful now but I still love it especially when you look up above the shops and see the amazing buildings built long ago

Thank you for this! I live in Canada, my grandfather and his family are from Ipswich and I wanted to experience it for myself but I don't expect I'll be able to go overseas anytime soon. I really appreciate what you do so people have a chance to see places they might not otherwise.

6:00 lovely street, 12:12- beautiful buildings. Enjoyed watching your relaxing walk. Greetings!

Thanks for posting the video. Lived in Ipswich long time back. Brings back old fond memories!!!

Feel like we walk together! Very pleasant and beautiful footage! Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful. I love this video a lot. So nice to travel the world with you. Thank you! : )

Thank you for the tour of new places!

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Watching from Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Great to see the UK town.

I've never visited Ipswich before but would love to now i've seen your video. Really enjoyed the walk, thank you :)

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I was stationed at Bentwaters 88-92. Been to that lovely town many times. Looks really good now.

Nice walk in Marina💕😊

Wonderful and nice video, great upload my friend. Thumbs up 👍🧡

a stunning beauty this city of ipswich. thanks very much

Love Ipswich, thank you for this video ❤

The marina area looks nice, another place to add to my list.

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Thanks for posting this video, I was just missing Ipswich

2005-2009 i was in ipswich, nice video thank you

I lived in Scotland for 6 years back in early 2000, I went all over the place but never visited Ipswich, i Wish i could go next year, i would also like to watch a football match, i fell in love with ipswich town f.c. back in 1978, Paul Mariner was my hero

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Amazing country

lovely : )

Great video

my sis shared this video with me, and it's so good! To be able to watch and hear the place is far more immersive than photos :D The non-US Ipswich is in Australia - a short jaunt down the road from me :) hi from Straya!

i live in CHina and this is my home -town - it is a lovely place to live and a great town

This is my home town and it is lovely. I miss it every day. A lot has changed over the years. Some beautiful buildings have gone but there you go, advancement, right? Too bad you didn’t make it to Christchurch Mansion. Thank you for bringing it to us on such a bright and sunny day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The architecture of Ipswich unique

Wow.wonderful video as if I m walikng beside you cheerful and peacefully . I dream to land in the UK once more in my lifetime n see Ipswich .I m 70 , teacher of English from Algeria.

This is my home town and it is lovely..I have a new movie from a walk around BALI, PARADISE ISLAND , Thanks for sharing & greetings new friend from Bali island Indonesia

Reminds me of a mixture of bath and canterbury.

Personally, Ipswich is one of the few places on our fair Isle I have yet to visit. May well consider doing so after watching this...

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Great video of my home town, it's always nice to get an outsiders opinion of the town as a lot of the locals seem to enjoy putting it down.no idea why!it has its problems and rough areas, but so does everywhere. Why time of day and month was this filmed?seems quiet, especially the waterfront as it's usually buzzing

We shopped at the Co-op and spent weekends at the Christchurch mansion. I loved the library and spent hour th r re.

Hi, LW 😊. Wow, very good, a lovely spacious town to walk ! Quite grand and even ornate in the centre, but so many characterful streets and lanes at every turn 👍. Surprisingly quiet on this lovely day. Good interest with the waterfront, shops and the market stalls 👋. Thanks for this, Cheers, Don

I just love Ipswich. I lived there back in the 1970. It was my ex-husbands home town.But we had to move around with his work. I had two jobs while I was living there. The department store closed were I worked has a window dresser. I visited the town a few years ago to reminisce,. I remember collecting a penny farthing bicycle and a bath chair from highway mansions NR bye and bags of leaves to put in the department store windows. With a card to say we're they were from . With permission from the mansions

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It's good to see your UK volume is increasing until you can travel again I guess? I've never been to Ipswich but it looks a lot more interesting and varied than I imagined.

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Ah Ipswich - the only town I've ever seen to have a church on an A road directly opposite a busy roundabout! Besides that, great looking town though.

I’ve never been to Ipswich. Seems a nice little city.

I haven't been in Ipswich since spring 2015, looking back I remember Debenhams in a central area and missed it in your tour. Probably closed since then. Still enjoyed your video of Ipswich.

I lived in Ipswich from 1965 to Jan 1968 I was 16 when we returned to the USA I went to a cobbelston girls school and we lived on Kingston Street. I h,ad an English friend by the name of Sandy she set up a blind date for me and we took the bus and than wasked thru an underground walkway to a place where we danced, I had such a good time,

It looks lovely. I thought Ipswich was supposed to be rough now ?

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Would have been a lovely place years ago

I don’t know why Ipswich gets a bad rep sometimes. I also felt it was a very pleasant town when I visited.

Are cars prohibited in the old centre?

I don’t know how you’ve done it - but you’ve made Ipswich look like a half decent place rather than the hellhole it actually is! Very Impressive!

Been visiting Ipswich all my life as my grandparents lived there. I disliked it then and I still do, even though they've made a great job on renovating the docks area. I'd rather live in Beirut. Bring on the haters!!

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Ain’t this Lovecrafts Arkham?

Well done, this video is proof you can polish a turd

It's a dump, served by an incompetent local authority. I left Ipswich in 2012 to live in in Norwich. Best decision I ever made. Suffolk is wonderful, but Ipswich is an eyesore.

Its a town not a city, Its big brother Norwich is a city, and a lot more too it,

Any asian from ipswich?