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General

Is it possible to get a citation for the comment about the market being bigger than Ipswich's?

The pier was not "bombed by the allies". It was demolished by the Corps of Engineers. No B-17s were involved.

"By the late 1990s the town council had neglected the pier so badly " - the pier is privately owned is not the responsibility of the council.

It can be argued that the council are still partly to blame, had they wanted to preserve the pier they could have. They just didn't care and still don't as the huge empty area by the nature reserve and felixstowe market, there for the last decade or so, demonstrates.

The image on this page that is supposedly of Languard Fort is actually the Doge's Palace in Venice! Markgpx 13:44, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I removed the image and replaced it with another one actually of Landguard Fort in Felixstowe. I thought before that I didn't recognise it (lived in flx for years), but never really clicked! Cheers [[ 18:01, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
The photo was orignally of Languard fort (not posted by myself) but it was named DSCFxxxx so I guess some dimwit overwrote it. Pjcard 16:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The map currently shown for this article is not appropriate for Felixstowe. Stepp-Wulf 03:18, 2 July 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Seems to have been fixed? Pjcard 16:04, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

I have just tidied up this article. Does anyone object if I remove the Cleanup tag? Biscuittin (talk) 09:22, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of name

Is "Felixstowe" of latin derivation ? Drutt (talk) 14:43, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not, judging by this usually well-informed site: http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/felixstoweintro.htm. Barnabypage (talk) 11:21, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Saint Felix? --58.136.5.193 (talk) 07:40, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

that would presumably be Felix of Burgundy who, the linked site above as well as our Article suggests, may have founded a church in the vicinity, now lost to the sea. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 185.74.232.130 (talk) 12:14, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Felixstowe railway station services

I'm afraid that I don't believe that the station ever had "20 services an hour". This implies a train every three minutes.Librarian16 (talk) 21:10, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nos 91-95 Undercliff Road West, Felixstowe Tourist Information Centre

(I have added the text about this back to the main article, because it was removed by an anonymous user for no reason. Now the main article is reverted, I am adding back this Talk entry. Please could you provide a reason if you think the article or Talk should not have these entries?)

This building is currently for sale (September 2014) and could be under threat of demolition in future. I have added the fact that it is currently used for Felixstowe Tourist Information Centre so that interested parties might find the entry more easily from a general web search - it would be known locally as the Tourist Information Centre building. PeterEssexHeritage (talk) 20:56, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Notable residents

Query use of "notable" re. student with an interest in Japanese cartoons. The Charles Cope reference should probably be deleted unless a compelling case can be made for retention (eg what is really "notable" here?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.30.63.135 (talk) 01:51, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lucus Park Bold text

I lived in Felixstowe for 25 years and used this park regularly over this period. I have never ever heard it referred to as Lucus Park and believe this information to be inaccurate. It is simply referred to as 'The Grove' by locals with the correct name being Eastward Ho after the Golf course that was located on the site before the Second World War.

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