Transport of Delight  

I must have passed it a thousand times.  I have always wanted to go there but never got round to it.  But at last I had the chance, on Monday, to go to the Ipswich Transport Museum. And what a place it is.  The largest transport collection of any town outside London, the Transport Museum tells the story of municipal transport in Ipswich since the days of horse-drawn trams in the nineteenth century.  Volunteers have lovingly restored buses and bicycles, cars and fire engines, trams, vans and prams.  And round the back there are a good number more awaiting their detailed attention – including a Ransomes trolley bus that had been used, for many years, as a makeshift house. Then there are the other exhibits: a recreated car mechanics from the 1930s and a bicycle shop from around the same time, when thousands of Ipswich workers cycled to work down the Norwich Road...