Talk:Ancient House, Ipswich

The Gallery
Is the gallery sepcifically for art? I seem to remember their being a history exhibiton in their at some point (I may be going mad and getting confused with something else, though). I can't find any contacts or references to cite one way or the other (in fact, I cannot find any refernce to it at all, even though I know it exists, after going to the photography exhibition in there the other weekend)

The Ancient House Bookshop
For as long as I could remember and probably since before I was born, there was a large bookshop there, housed in a maze-like series of rooms with creaking floorboards. It was an Ipswich landmark. There were a pair of identical twins on the staff. Then all of a sudden, in the late eighties I think, overnight this shop selling plastic kitchen stuff suddenly appeared in its place!!!!!! A very retrograde step if you ask me - the council should have subsidised the bookshop's rent to allow them to continue. I'm not sure if Ipswich has a bookshop anymore - shame! There was also a historic chapel in the roof (I think) of the bookshop that you could ask to see, although I never did. This article could be linked to other similar buildings in Ipswich - such as the ancient merchant's house next to the docks. Next to the Custom House was or is a signboard that shows where several of these historic buildings in the area are, and they are not yet mentioned in Wikipedia. 80.2.194.116 (talk) 21:54, 28 June 2008 (UTC)