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The Peace Cafe - Ipswich.love

For the love of Holywells, Gainsborough and Cups of Tea

A love letter to Holywells Park — Gainsborough's Ipswich, Victorian ponds and ancient trees, and running a café at its heart.

By Jon Shapcott

St John’s Tennis Club Ipswich - Ipswich.love

For the love of Tennis

A love letter to Ipswich through tennis — from first lessons at David Lloyd to a lifetime of friendships forged on court.

By Henry Patten

For the love of people! - Ipswich.love

For the love of people!

Those early memories - hopping on the bus from Felixstowe, the thrill of arriving at the cattle market, and adventures galore.

For the love of people! - Ipswich.love

By Nicholas Pandolfi

For the love of taking another look - Ipswich.love

For the love of taking another look

I have lived in Ipswich and brought up children here over the last 30 years so it must be love!

For the love of taking another look - Ipswich.love

By Lucy Williams

For the love of live music and having a good boogie! - Ipswich.love

For the love of live music and having a good boogie!

I’m a believer that you really can make a dancefloor anywhere, whether it’s dancing on a sticky pub floor, in a field, or an old swimming pool or historic church!

Amy Falla - DanceEast

By Amy Falla

An Aerial picture of the Willis Building, Ipswich

For the love of … well, love!

I nearly didn’t come to the interview; my car broke down on the way and it all became a bit of a struggle as I ended up having to get the train from London.

For the love of … well, love! - Ipswich.love

By Tracy Ward

A selection of handmade candles on a wooden base

For the love of proving them wrong

I encountered a lot of shade thrown at Suffolk’s county town – even by people from Ipswich – and very little of it was deserved

Beren Reid

By Beren Matheson Nowell

For the love of building bridges - Ipswich.love

For the love of building bridges

Although I was born and grew up in Wiltshire my Dad was born in Ipswich and my grandparents lived here so when we took a trip to Ipswich it was called ‘going home’.

Cordelle Sheldon - Ipswich.love

By Cordelle Sheldon

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