Website of monthly magazine Ipswich24. Covering Ipswich, Woodbridge, Felixstowe, Hadleigh, Stowmarket and surrounding areas. Leading whats on and where to go magazine for the area.
08/09/2024
Ipswich Cycling Weekend returns to the town tomorrow (Saturday 30th) with a trio of two-wheeled events. There is a brand new sportive challenge, the Crafted Classique, the Ipswich Coastal Grand Prix pro cycle race concluding the British Cycling Elite Road Race series, and the return of Sky Ride Ipswich, offering families the chance to ride…
Read More about Team Sky launches weekend of cycling in IpswichAn exhibition by 20th Century women artists opens at Christchurch Mansion’s Wolsey Art Gallery next month and is accompanied by a programme of talks. “Obscure Secure” includes work by Connie Winn, Peggy Somerville, Anna Airy, Effie Spring-Smith, Kathleen Walne, Helen Kiddall, Prunella Clough, Beatrice Lithiby, Lucy Harwood and E M Every. The works form partof…
Read More about Christchurch Mansion Exhibition and TalksBBC Radio Suffolk presenters Mark Murphy and Lesley Dolphin will be joining members of Hospital Radio Ipswich this Saturday to raise funds for the station. Hospital Radio Ipswich is based at Heath Road Hospital where it’s volunteer members broadcast a variety of programmes every day of the week. The aim of the station is to…
Read More about BBC presenters help Hospital Station80s band Go West are back on the road this autumn (with The Christians and Hue & Cry) and are coming to Ipswich – Mark Keable caught up with Go West front man Peter Cox. Where were you born and did you come from a musical family? Peter: I was born in Kingston, Surrey and…
Read More about Interview: Peter CoxThe future of Felixstowe’s Spa Pavilion complex has taken another twist as the two formal bids on the table for consideration have both been rejected. Th hunt will now continue to find someone with viable plans for a long-term use of the Felixstowe landmark site. The market experts, Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL), that have been…
Read More about Spa to be knocked downThroughout this week events are being held up and down the Suffolk Coast to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the great flood of January 31, 1953 which claimed over 50 lives in Suffolk. In Felixstowe alone, 41 people died when the river walls were breached, with 13 of those being children between six months and…
Read More about Remembering the Floods of 1953Self-styled Prince Roy of Sealand has died peacefully at the age of 91 years. Roy Bates life was never dull, at the age of 15 he joined an international brigade as he sought adventure in the Spanish civil war. Returning to Britain he served an apprenticeship at Smithfield meat market before going to Argentina to…
Read More about Prince Roy of Sealand DiesGraham Gouldman is one part of 10cc, former member of Hot Wax and The Mindbenders as well being a prolific songwriter working with the likes of Neil Sedaka, The Hollies, Paul Carrack, McFly and Gary Barlow. Graham has a brand new album and is also out on the road and coming to Ipswich in October….
Read More about Talking with: Graham GouldmanThe Tour of Britain came to Ipswich, see photos and video of riders.
Read More about Tour of Britain – Leg 1 – Ipswich