the orwell bridge
the orwell bridge
29th January 2020
Having worked in Ipswich in the late 1990's I became quite familiar with it on my daily journey. Opened in December 1982 it completed the much needed bypass around Ipswich and the relentless heavy traffic bound for Felixstowe docks no longer rumbled through the town centre.
I needed a starting point for my project and this geographically being the furthest east seemed the natural place to start. I had never ventured off the well trodden path of the A14 and had no idea you could access the base of this majestic structure.
For some reason unknown to man, I am drawn to the delights of Brutalist Concrete Architecture and these pillars and posts really 'floated my boat' and form the main part of this set of photographs.
It was a bright and chilly winters afternoon when I visited this site just east of Wherstead in Suffolk and with the sun setting in the west a lovely golden glow was cast over the bridge brightening up the cold grey concrete and creating some warm reflections in the River Orwell.
The images below capture both the stark industrial concrete structure and the rural location on the banks of the River Orwell.
To view the full size images click and scroll through the gallery.
29th January 2020
Having worked in Ipswich in the late 1990's I became quite familiar with it on my daily journey. Opened in December 1982 it completed the much needed bypass around Ipswich and the relentless heavy traffic bound for Felixstowe docks no longer rumbled through the town centre.
I needed a starting point for my project and this geographically being the furthest east seemed the natural place to start. I had never ventured off the well trodden path of the A14 and had no idea you could access the base of this majestic structure.
For some reason unknown to man, I am drawn to the delights of Brutalist Concrete Architecture and these pillars and posts really 'floated my boat' and form the main part of this set of photographs.
It was a bright and chilly winters afternoon when I visited this site just east of Wherstead in Suffolk and with the sun setting in the west a lovely golden glow was cast over the bridge brightening up the cold grey concrete and creating some warm reflections in the River Orwell.
The images below capture both the stark industrial concrete structure and the rural location on the banks of the River Orwell.
To view the full size images click and scroll through the gallery.
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May '25 We arrived in Saigon on May 3rd and any preconceptions I had of the city went straight out of the window, Despite being a communist state, 50 years after the end of the American War, Saigon was very much a thriving 21st Century City. And busy, so very busy. Our time in Vietnam really was an adventure, we went on a rowing boat in the backwaters of the Mekon Jungle, Flew up to Dang An and spent some time in the delightful Hoi An. Then experienced a journey through the mountains to Hue (which reminded me of travelling through the Alps many years ago). In Hue we went on a Rickshaw tour of the city by twilight and then explored it by day on the back of a motorbike, which included visiting the Royal Palace. Then it was a 15 hour overnight train journey from Hue to Hanoi which was an experience to say the least. Whilst in Hanoi we went to the famous Train Street which was a most surreal experience and ended our holiday with a mini cruise and overnight stay on a boat in Halong Bay. It was quite a full on week which at times was tiring, but we had a blast!
