tarboat's photos with the keyword: stowmarket

These days the Regal is an independent 3 auditorium cinema and theatre located in the heart of Stowmarket, Suffolk. Opened in 1936 as a 566-seat cinema for VEH Cinemas Ltd it saw many successful years, but by 1972 it was facing closure. The former Stowmarket Urban District Council stepped in to save the day and ownership was transferred to Stowmarket Town Council. Since then there have been several refurbishments, particularly after a major fire in 2009.

Storage tanks at the AkzoNobel paints plant in Stowmarket.

Corrugated iron pub premises on Station Street West, Stowmarket. I think this is actually an outbuilding rather than the main bar. :-)

Storage tanks at the AkzoNobel (Dulux) paint plant at Stowmarket. I really do hope that the colours inside match those outside.

A grab shot whilst walking in Suffolk. 90008 heads a Greater Anglia service towards Ipswich is seeen passing Munton's Cedars Maltings outside Stowmarket. The livery of these trains is awful - dull and dismal, hardly better than all-over rail blue!

Whatever!

Corrugated building on Creeting Road, Stowmarket. I can find no information at all about this building and would welcome anything that fellow Flickrites can add. It looks a bit like a chapel but is rather small, unless it was once longer? The porch on this side has certainly been dismantled.

Corrugated Mission Church / Congregational Hall, Creeting Road, Stowmarket. Old maps suggest that this building was erected c1900 as a Mission Church. It has since fallen on hard times but is still recognisable for what it was, although it may have been shortened at some point.

A rare survival in eastern region blue, spotted whilst mooching the streets of Stowmarket.