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Ipswich Tourist Guides Association

Enthusiastic about Ipswich and keen to share their enthusiasm. The Guides take groups around the town, showing them sights, hidden, ignored or forgotten.

We offer guided walks every Tuesday and Thursday over the summer months, and
extremely popular afternoon tea walks with a variety of topics between October and April. All our Guides are fully trained and tested on their knowledge and guiding techniques.

26/05/2024

St Clements full of Art! come and see many new works by local artists in a very smartly renewed St Clement's church.

10/05/2024

14th May: a tour round the docks with our Tour Guide. Not by moonlight!

05/05/2024

Well Done Ipswich Town FC, great to see you back in the top flight. This is a wonderful opportunity for you and, of course, for the Town. So now Ipswich Borough it’s time to step up to the plate. Sort out Ancient House ready for tourists coming to Ipswich, and above all, reinstate a Tourist Information Centre. Perhaps in the Town Hall. The Tourist Guides are ready to help in whatever way we can.
Heartiest Congratulations to Town FC.

30/04/2024

Thursday May 2nd, the first of our Summer Walks, 'Beautiful Buildings'. Starting from The Admiral's House in Tower St at 2pm. Come and see a few of the 600 Listed Buildings in Ipswich.

13/04/2024

They came, they saw, they stayed here: The story of immigration to Ipswich. A Tea Walk for 16th April, 130pm at Institute.

23/03/2024

Cecilia Eckelmann Battistello passed away recently. I believe she was the MD of Contship line when they took over and redesigned the Flagship building on Ipswich Docks in 1987.

08/03/2024

Next Tea Walk on 22nd of March, including Christchurch Park

09/02/2024

Queen Vic was not amused, Tea walk on 20th February. And the Victorians had a hand in "restoring" this inscription.

23/01/2024

Dickens birthday coming up, with a Tea Walk! On 7th February

01/12/2023

Tudor Ipswich - a walk on Wednesday 6th from Ipswich Institute at 1 30pm. Book at their website.

27/10/2023

Tea Walk 15th November. Starts at the Institute, and ends in their café! This little carving is relevant, but how?

16/09/2023

Ipswich Medics walk due this Tuesday19th, this photo shows an early women's GP premises.

11/09/2023

Ipswich Heritage: a day showing folks the Ancient House and the Town.

20/08/2023

Some products of Ipswich Industry from the Stowmarket Museum, of country life and food.

19/08/2023

Ipswich Heritage Open Days: September 9&10
The Tour Guides will be offering views of the Ancient House on both days.

21/07/2023

Next weeks walks take in the Heart of Ipswich and Ipswich Place Names, Old and New

18/07/2023

Another chance to explore the Waterfront on 18th

19/06/2023

Victims and Martyrs: this Tuesday
This couple might feature...

01/06/2023

Waterfront Wander:
That is the walk on Tuesday 6th. Learn about the docks then and now.

29/05/2023

Walking Ipswich, to the East and to the Park, this week, see the Manor House

16/05/2023

Tour the Heart of Ipswich, Today!

05/05/2023

Tourist Guides Association Website updated for this year.

Ipswich Walking Tours History Suffolk Architecture Historic Saxon Sculpture Wolsey Docks

09/04/2023

Ipswich Windows in Tavern St, not on the Ancient House.

27/02/2023

Wolsey, the Ipswich man made good. 550 years ago.
You can learn more about him on some of our regular walks on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Summer time.
see http://ipswichtourguides.org.uk/

20/01/2023

A 50 year old marker stone for the phone system, hidden in a street off Carr St. Revealed by Borin van der Loon's lecture last night.

21/12/2022

Signs of life in Ipswich! The Morris men.

02/12/2022

A view of Holywells Park by Gainsborough, the Tour Guides sometimes take walks there. On display at Christchurch Museum just now.

20/11/2022

Spotted at the entrance to Christchurch Manor, anyone know Latin?
Observe frugality in order not to fall into dissipation.
Translation kindly supplied by a Facebook follower: many thanks.

11/09/2022

Ipswich heritage Weekend. The guides were about today taking people around, I looked in on the Willis Building.

05/09/2022

King John's Seals Ipswich
see in Town Hall,

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http://www.ipswichtourguides.org.uk/

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Our purpose

We offer six different tours of Ipswich over the summer months and also Tea Walks and a variety of Topical walks all year. We are accredited by Ipswich Borough Council. The walks last about 90 minutes and start from the Tourist Information Centre. There is something to do every week over the summer and we get involved with the Heritage Days.