See how Bury St Edmunds locations including Station Hill, Moreton Hall and Marham Park have changed over the years – and spot long-closed Woolworths and former Minden Rose pub

Bury St Edmunds is a town which has changed dramatically over the centuries, but how much has it changed since 2009?

We have taken a look back at parts of the town using images taken from Google Streetview since its first visit to Bury in 2009 and contrasted them with more recent pictures from 2021 and 2022.

In some instances the changes are minimal, while in others entire developments have sprung up, or roads built where before only fields existed before.

We start with a look at Angel Hill in 2009 and 2022.

You will see not much has changed, other than the pictures were taken in different seasons.

Moving around the corner, here's a look at an alternate view of Angel Hill.

In these pictures you can see the former Cycle King building on the left in 2009 and its replacement in 2022.

The shop was destroyed by fire in September 2017 and later rebuilt.

Moving into the town centre, here you can see the Corn Exchange in 2009, before it was converted into a Wetherspoon pub, and pictured again in 2022.

A little further down the road and you can see the top of Abbeygate Street in the days Palmers department store was still flourishing and Barclays bank was in situ opposite.

The Palmers unit is now occupied by a menswear retailer, while a cornish pasty shop is due to move into the corner shop this year.

On Cornhill we have taken a couple of interesting contrasting views of the street scene.

Our first images include the former Woolworths, Stead and Simpson shoe shop, the empty Top Shop unit (which is now Barclays bank) and Thorntons Café on the corner.

Contrast that with 2022, where you will see Poundland, Sports Direct, Caffe Nero and Mountain Warehouse in situ.

Turn around and there is the former Post Office, at 17-18 Cornhill, still in operation in 2009 and then shrouded in hoardings during its redevelopment in 2022.

The hoardings have since been removed. Market Thoroughfare reopened last week, while the flats and shops in the former Post Office development are due to be finished very shortly.

Leaving the town centre, Tayfen Road is another area of Bury which looks drastically different now.

The metal gas lantern which was once a prominent feature of the road has now been removed with a new housing development being built in its place, as you can see under way here.

And a block of flats now stands further down Tayfen Road on the site of a former used car sales, itself the location of a long-gone Victorian gas lantern.

The street scene of Station Hill could hardly be more different now.

Back in 2009 the Rollerbury building was still standing and Brazilia's nightclub was still trading.

Now, more flats have been built on the site of so many nights out from decades ago.

Etna Road, meanwhile, is now home to a Premier Inn and drive-thru Starbucks which did not exist in 2009.

Heading out of town towards the Marham Park housing estate – which was only in the planning stages back in 2009 – and you will notice a roundabout along the A1101 which did not exist before.

Elsewhere on Marham Park hundreds of homes have sprung up along roads which only started to appear on Google Streetview from 2018 onwards.

Here you can see the evolution along Sandlands Drive:

Here is the entrance to Crosses Link, off Marham Parkway, in 2018 and 2022:

And here is another view of Crosses Link:

On the Howard estate, the site of the former Merry Go Round pub was still boarded up back in 2009 whereas now it is home to a small housing development.

Talking of former pubs, the Minden Rose – on the corner of Western Way and Newmarket Road – was still familiar back in 2009. Now, it is home to an established day nursery instead.

Now we are off to the Moreton Hall side of town, where Lady Miriam Way is showing subtle alterations between 2009 and now, with homes under construction on the Flying Fortress/Rougham side of the road.

Heading out of town along Mount Road, towards Thurston, is now an extension of the Moreton Hall housing estate.

Contrast the 2022 picture with the fields of 2009:

And in Skyliner Way the roundabout heading towards Rougham Tower Avenue was a dead end in 2009, where today stands Sybil Andrews Academy and a new business park has sprung up on the fields of yesteryear.

Finally, were are off to Rougham – admittedly just outside the town but on the fringes given expansion in recent years.

As you can see here, the Sow Lane junction with the A14 was still under construction in 2017, as part of the Eastern Relief Road development.