Stalag Luft Orwell Country Park.
All around the woods now are fences and gates with notices saying DON'T. This is plain silly if folks are to enjoy themselves. There actually are rules about no camping and no camp fires. The woods have only been under the jurisdiction of IBC for about 10 years as the Ipswich Boundary used to end at the playing fields boundary. Some shuffling of the pack took place and now IBC's jurisdiction has spread but what did they give in return? More about that another day. I am my mates used these woods to ride motor bikes in since we were school kids and much later too. I always had a few motor cycles around and the late big Frank Nightingale would load them into his van and Neville Lambert, Tony Godfrey, Duncan Smith, David Nichols and a few more of us would race around there instead of on the estates where kids have to race these days and of course down the double dee. My kids and their mates would camp up here for days at a time with my dog for protection and I heard of very little harm. Ok maybe a few lads fell off motorbikes and maybe a few got hit by a stone out of a catapault but mainly nothing as serious as happens now with youngsters always being told they cannot do anything so they turn to drugs etc. I only ever remember one really bad thing ever happening and unfortunately that was to one of Frank Nightingales lads. Him and his mate were jumping off a cliff and firing their 12 bores into the air as they did so and Franks lad was killed. That was really terrible but as nothing compared to what happens these days of restrictions. Many more pics posted today click below. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipswich/
pete