Ipswich airport was one of my Q X-C destinations back in 1968 during my Special Flying Award - a very friendly place it was too.
On Good Friday 1968, I flew from Cranfield to overhead Henlow (to avoid Bedford/Thurleigh and Cardington), then landed at Cambridge. Off then to Ipswich where I had a cup of tea with another chap on my course - we had brand new Cessna F150s with sequential registrations. Then back to Cranfield again via Henlow, during which some USAF chap in a single seat F-101 came to say hello - perhaps from Wethersfield? Close enough for me to see that he was wearing a bright orange bone dome.....
3:20 flying time, perfect weather - and the first solo landaway I'd ever done! The next one was in a Hunter 8 years later.