Silent witness
The oriel window projecting from the upper floor of this 15th century house in Silent Street would have given a fine view over more than 500 years of history: from puritans leaving for New England to my wife and I setting off to see the latest release at Cineworld; from Thomas Wolsey playing as a boy to Charles Dickens taking a stroll; from Lord Nelson who was High Steward of Ipswich to Thomas Gainsborough who lived and worked nearby.
The name of the street is thought to either refer to the silence needed when sick and wounded seamen were being treated nearby during the Dutch Wars of the 1650s, or to the unnatural quiet that followed large numbers of deaths in this neighborhood during the Great Plague of 1665/6.
Silent witness
The oriel window projecting from the upper floor of this 15th century house in Silent Street would have given a fine view over more than 500 years of history: from puritans leaving for New England to my wife and I setting off to see the latest release at Cineworld; from Thomas Wolsey playing as a boy to Charles Dickens taking a stroll; from Lord Nelson who was High Steward of Ipswich to Thomas Gainsborough who lived and worked nearby.
The name of the street is thought to either refer to the silence needed when sick and wounded seamen were being treated nearby during the Dutch Wars of the 1650s, or to the unnatural quiet that followed large numbers of deaths in this neighborhood during the Great Plague of 1665/6.