Click here for bigger map http://static.flickr.com/55/147259283_3c99058c8c_o.jpg and look at the area below the "Click map to zoom" (it will not work) but that is the area of interest.Worcester Road Coleness Road and Braziers Wood Road are recent additions.Originally Clapgate Lane was a dead end and Braziers Wood road just under the "Click map to zoom" and the road under and over the word zoom and outlined red never existed and the empty space was Stan Birds yard and would have come over Braziers Wood Roads present location. It was full of trucks and cars that Stan was working on but the council pushed ahead and allowed building extending Clapgate Lane right up to his yard and opposite it in Clapgate Lane hoping to intimidate Stan and various methods were used to close him down rather than give him planning permission to develop his plot to what it is now. See thisFrom Clapgate Lane http://static.flickr.com/44/147259279_c5310ed8cf_b.jpg now from Braziers Wood Road http://static.flickr.com/51/147259280_97daf997db_b.jpg now. Eleven houses and some of Braziers Wood Road where Stan Birds yard used to be! Stan fought hard for this development and he was always made aware he had no chance of developing the yard like this. So what changed? Well Stan bought a plot of land beside the A14 and next to Pond Hall farm and the council wanted that land badly to include it into the Orwell Country Park and now they do own it and Stans yard has been turned into eleven houses. Stan always was a good trader but I wonder who profited from this particular enterprise as I very much doubt it was Stan. He must have been rehoused as was the chap living on his land by the A14 that the council now own. Unfortunately Stan is now deceased but he had a son who must wonder. What mysteries lay here waiting to be discovered:-)

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