Berner Street - Drawing from Ipswich Journal

[Fisherman]

The stone at the bottom right hand corner of the gates is not there. It is in place both in the classic pic with the wagon wheel over the yard and in Philip´s pic. Did the drawer just skip it, or was it not in place in 1888...?

The best,
Fisherman

[George Hutchinson]

Simon, what you are seeing in this illustration is the front of #40 Berner Street. The IWEC and affiliated Dutfields Yard buildings were behind it. In the 1900 photograph, #40 is indeed free of windows although the IWEC behind it isn't. The only roof level that can be seen on the 1900 photograph is that of the IWEC and not the main part of #40 facing Berner Street and running down the first part of the northern side of the yard. If you look at the illustration Chris found and posted above, you will see the roofline of the IWEC behind the front part of #40 running as a small diagonal line across and above the gates.

PHILIP

[Chris]

If the Berner Street artist has got the IWEC correct, then in Philip's photograph the first floor has sprouted side windows and the top storey is missing.

No, I think the two-story building with windows seen in the photo is the building behind the one shown in the drawing.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Chris,

Many thanks for this illustration; also for the one of Mitre Square.

If the Berner Street artist has got the IWEC correct, then in Philip's photograph the first floor has sprouted side windows and the top storey is missing.

Regards,

Simon

[Chris Scott]

Ipswich Journal
5 October 1888