Why has SUFFOLK been overlooked....?

On the day that Chelmsford has been awarded City status I ask why Suffolk has yet again been overlooked for having a City in the county! I mean Essex of all places! Has the world gone mad? We have a thriving and vibrant county town and a beautiful, historic centre at Bury St Edmunds which was the first capital of East Anglia going back to Saxon times with St Edmund. We must be the only county left in England not to have a City within its borders. Ipswich City has a great ring about it and we have some large medievil churches in the centre of Town that could easily convert to a cathedral. We have a football club that is larger than most of the provincial cities including that one up the road.

I know the Queen has got a small country place up the road in Norfolk but come on ma'am! Show us people in Suffolk that you care and grant us a City!

 

It all seems somewhat trivial to me and just a waste of time and money to have these changes.

 

Not bothered if I'm honest, but then again I'm not from Ipswich I'm from one of the 'muddy backwater' Suffolk villages segregated from civilization (not too dissimilar to that film 'the Village') and if I'm honest I'm proud to shout Ipswich Town at matches. It might be good for the Town to become a city but wouldn't really affect anything at the club and for me we would alway be "Ipswich Town F.C, the finest football team the world has ever seen" and so on

 

I like being a Town .Ipswich Town just sounds right.

Agree with Weighty and can't see the point .

 

did ipswich even apply for city status this time around? it costs quite a lot of money to campaign for

 

No I don't think we did. Not bothered either. City is just a word, doesn't really mean much, not now that there are hundreds of them around.

 

How can Suffolk have a city when it is nothing but fields and tractors? (From a Suffolk resident)

 

Like Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.....!

 

No Cathedrals in Suffolk!

 

what about st edmondsbury cathedral numbnuts?

 

Elizabeth Windsor is advised by the goverment to which places deserve city status, would not think she had the ability to work it out herself.

 

is bury st edmonds a city? i know it applied for status once upon a time

 

Bury St Edmunds isn't classed as a City eventhough it has a cathedral! It was classed as the capital of West Suffolk before the boundary changes made in the local government act in 1974.

 

What about Lowestoft? We have the South and North Bronxes either side of the bridge.

 

It is good to see that our feathered friends are such a god fearing bunch. I can't say in all the times I've been to Norwich I've ever visited Norwich Cathedral - it's hardly St Paul's is it?

 

But Lowie is in Norfolk because Norfolk County Council collect our bins! Wait, did I just say bins?

 

Perhaps not Hampy, but it is a fabulous piece of architecture all the same and, joking aside, well worth a visit as is the Norman castle

 

which one of our two cathedrals are you talking about?