sentences:  It held an inauguration meeting held at the Ipswich Lecture Hall, featuring a speech by Richard B. Starr, one of the architects of the Starr-Bowkett model.Starr stated that the society was not intended to be a rival to other building societies in the area, but to offer a new model of financial assistance for working-class people.The Ipswich & Suffolk and the Ipswich & District merged in 1975, with the new entity trading simply as the Ipswich Building Society, a name it retains today.