Once more, and for the last time on this trip, we went down to the hotel cafe bar for supper.

Cambridge Station at night

Afterwards, we stepped outside for a few minutes and I photographed Cambridge railway station, becomingly illuminated. Tomorrow afternoon, we shall depart from here for the last time on this trip and return to London.

Before we leave definitively, however, we have another excursion planned – which I shall recount at the appropriate time.

And so, for the last time, good night, Cambridge, till tomorrow!

It’s another grey day though not raining so far. We started with our usual coffee and croissants breakfast at Caffè Nero before setting off for today’s destination, the historic town of Bury St Edmunds.

Cambridge Station

Tigger has already bought our train tickets online and we will collect them from a machine on the station.

Platform 6

Our train departs from the out-of-way platform 6. Our train’s destination is Ipswich but, fortunately, we are not going that far. Bury is the third stop.

Arriving

We arrive at Bury St Edmunds.

The station

Bury station is of unusual design but is, I think, attractive.

Closed church

We visited St John’s Church on a previous trip but it is now boarded up.

St John’s Street

We walked up this road, St John’s Street.

Caffè Nero

At the top of the hill, in the unlikely sounding Brentgovel Street, we stopped for coffee at Caffè Nero.

A statue on the façade

We had come to Bury for a particular purpose (which I will explain later) but we now looked around the town.

A lump of modern architecture

Bury may be a historic cathedral and market town but it is also a modern town full of sometimes not very prepossessing modern architecture.

Street view

Perhaps if we spent more time here and came to know it better, we might discover some so far unnoticed charms.

The Corn Exchange

There are a few striking buildings such as the Corn Exchange, now a Wethersoon’s pub. If we had had more time, we would no doubt have discovered more.

The War Memorial

Jacobean-style shops

This building in pseudo-“Tudorbethan” style was built in 1910 and is Grade II listed.

Old Burton’s Store

A personal interest, we spotted this old Burton’s store with a foundation stone dated 1933.

Moyse’s Hall Museum

We had come to see an exhibition in Moyse’s Hall Museum. Called Moments, it is an exhibition by modern artists. The space devoted to the artworks was somewhat confined and there were quite a few visitors, so that seeing – and photographing – works was not easy. There follow just three snaps of the exhibition.

Glimpses of the exhibition

As a miscellaneous selection, the exhibition had some sort of interest but I didn’t see anything particularly striking. It gave me the impression of being a collection of “other works” by the artists concerned.

Roof structure, Moyse’s Hall

The architecture of Moyse’s Hall itself was also interesting and would probably repay time spent studying it.

Door

I liked this little Gothic-style doorway as much as most of the exhibited artworks.

Long-case clocks

There was also a small selection of “proper” museum exhibits, including an impressive array of long-case clocks (the photo includes just a few of the clocks on view).

Clock face

As well as instruments for keeping time, clocks have also always been works of art in their own right. Clockmakers are mechanics but also artists.

Pocket watches

There was a large number of those clocks in miniature, pocket watches.

Where we had lunch

As we have spent rather a lot on food lately, we thought we had better economise at lunchtime. We bought a few items from Marks & Spencer and consumed them sitting on the wall round this tree.

Tea and toasted teacakes

As our train is not until 4 pm and we have exhausted the pleasures of Bury, we have come back to Caffè Nero to spend the interim period. Tea and toasted teacakes make a pleasant supplement to lunch!

A last look

As we had done a fair amount of walking, we decided to take a bus back to the railway station.

Bus station

We walked down to the bus station and straightaway found a bus serving the railway station.

On the bus

We were very soon at Bury’s picturesque railway station.

Platform 1 for Cambridge

We went onto platform 1 and sat on a bench to await our train. There was quite a chilly breeze blowing by this time but there was only one waiting room – on the other side of the track!

Aboard the train

The train came at last and rescued us from the cold breeze.

Three stops later we arrived back in Cambridge, glad that our hotel was so near the station. We made tea and will relax in the room until it is time to go down for supper.