This is looking at Ravenswood estate from Maryon Road. If you want to drive into Ravenswood from here or even out of Ravenswood to here you are not allowed to. Only buses can use this and all other drivers must drive around to the Ransome Way roundabout way in and out of Ravenswood. This must be the only estate in Ipswich that only has one point of entry and exit. Further up Maryon Road behind the houses in Nacton Road there use to be a very well used path but that also has been blocked and further down Maryon Road leads into Braziers Wood Road, which used to be just a dirt track where Stan Bird used to repairs trucks, there was another entrance but now only the young and fit can access it because it is illegally obstructed http://static.flickr.com/43/114343466_41f26f91d0_b.jpg There are more pics here http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipswich/.
As far as I can see all these gates IBC has erected merely stop old and disabled people because the motorcyclists just lift there bikes over. Tonight, Sunday 19th March) I spoke with some lads at Bridgewood who had motorcycles and they said some of the gates were so badly designed they could even get their motor cycles through them rather than lifting the bikes over the top. It seems to me these gates and fences are a complete waste of an awful lot of money and yet even now new ones are being made and erected to prevent people parking before Bridgewood and walking their dogs over Braziers Wood. Why do people suddenly get the urge to erect fences and gates as soon as they see open countryside. Forty odd years ago Peter Little tried many times to put a gate up to stop people driving to Bridgewood even though people live within Bridgewood. It must be an illness of some kind that his son Richard now has and IBC too. Maybe it is a way to build an Empire or Kingdom for whoever has the access to our money to do these stupid things. I wonder how much better off we all would be if the Dutchman, Mr Trip (sp) had not sold his land to the council and it had just stayed as it was.
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