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Willingale One Name Study
Willingale Family Tree
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Notes:
The history of the street layout here is particularly interesting. The 'original' street came northwards from Fore Street and made a sharp right-angle to the west to enclose the St Clement Churchyard (the site of the present junction of Star Lane and Grimwade Street on the Eastern Gyratory traffic system (photo on our Street furniture page). It features on Speed's map of the town published in 1610. This is called variously 'Church Lane', 'St Clements Church Lane' 'Church Street' and 'St Clements Street' on various maps. Before Argyle Street was cut through, linking Woodbridge Road and St Helen's Street, a street called Borough Road ran southwards from that junction, across former prison grounds (the prison being on the site of County Hall) to Rope Walk. This was later extended southward past The Captains' Houses to join St Clements Street. It was known as Borough Road until the whole stretch from St Helen's Street to Fore Street was renamed Grimwade Street in the mid-twentieth century to commemorate Alderman Edward Grimwade who was Mayor of Ipswich in 1964-5. He was part of several generations of Grimwades who owned the clothiers store on the corner of Cornhill and Westgate Street and who played parts in the civic life of the town. An 1881 map of the majority of this area is shown on our Street furniture page dealing with the Ipswich Corporation Waterworks.
http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/captainshouses.html accessed 26/12/2019  Location : Latitude: 52.056303, Longitude: 1.1633601999999428
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