please empty your brain below
Thank you, I enjoyed reading about your Suffolk rambling today.

P.s.we were in Sudbury once looking for a place to get an evening meal, not a Sunday btw………….it was shut.
That is our memory of the place.😳

Jo W | 09.10.23 - 7:57 a.m. | #

The Wool Pack by Cynthia Harnett is a charming children's novel set in the 15th century around Burford in the Cotswolds about the wool trade with a lot of historical interest about every day life.

Half a physicist | 09.10.23 - 8:20 a.m. | #

Always think of Lavenham as being Lovejoy country.

Last ever episode was called Last Tango In Lavenham.

Karl, Dover | 09.10.23 - 8:28 a.m. | #

One random day, we went to Bury St Edmunds and stopped off at Lavenham. A film crew were there. Big lights, camera, action! Crowds were waving union flags whilst strange cars raced (and bumped) around the market place. Here's the advert: [start at 40 seconds for the Lavenham bit]

fred | 09.10.23 - 8:57 a.m. | #

I wonder: is there's a certain artist's name in a sealed envelope?

Trevor S | 09.10.23 - 9:41 a.m. | #

Finally "tearoom-ready" I see, after years of blogs where you appeared to dash past them without stopping. For me it's pretty much an essential part of a long walk, and something I particularly missed during the pandemic.

Andrew S | 09.10.23 - 9:43 a.m. | #

At what point in middle age does one become 'tearoom ready'? I'm 60 and not got there yet!
Mind you after an 8-mile walk to get there I'd certainly be looking for the nearest pub!

Cornish Cockney | 09.10.23 - 10:56 a.m. | #

I've been tearoom ready since I was able to ingest solids.

But hold on, what's this? There's a Roy's other than in Wroxham?!

Jonathan Wadman | 09.10.23 - 11:02 a.m. | #

Roys are all over the place - 14 branches

Caroline | 09.10.23 - 11:21 a.m. | #

Not seen that advert for ages! 43 years ago when the Metro was launched.

Mikey C | 09.10.23 - 11:26 a.m. | #

For the avoidance of doubt I didn’t stop in a tearoom, no time.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.10.23 - 12:50 p.m. | #

Just for The Men Who Like Trains Which Are No Longer There, a recent update to one of my (other) favourite sites, with a few more pictures then in your Wiki link;-
disused-stations.org.uk/l/lavenham

MartinL | 09.10.23 - 6:14 p.m. | #

You've taken me back 50 years here. When I was an A-level history student our history master arranged a coach trip to Lavenham (from south London) to study the architecture and to bone up on the area's past.
It turned into an epic pub crawl of Suffolk after we arrived and went to "study the architecture of the inside of The Swan sir."
This is how history should be.

Chris | 09.10.23 - 7:54 p.m. | #

This time you visited the area on one of the few weekends when the historical re-enactors (of various periods, sometimes all at once; #Kentwellies) were not at Kentwell Hall, but also your goal of Lavenham wouldn't really has permitted the time to do both.

(Catch the reenactors while you can, times are a-changing, although some are relocating to Athelhampton in Dorset as an alternative.)

dg writes: I caught them last time, thanks.

MilesT | 09.10.23 - 10:10 p.m. | #

Most enjoyable blog, as usual. I feel that the first part is easier to read than the serif of the second. Love Lavenham.

Herbof | 09.10.23 - 10:49 p.m. | #

On the Gainsborough's House pricing point, in fairness I think it's worth noting that there's rather more there now than there was before, hence the price increase. A substantial extension opened less than a year ago with new exhibition galleries and a new gallery of Gainsborough's work, capable of displaying larger paintings than the house itself can. The house has also been substantially refurbished and is much better off for it.

TAS | 10.10.23 - 3:50 p.m. | #

I noticed the two Co-ops in Lavenham when visiting in August. They seem to be "frenemies", one the nationwide chain and the other East of England. Rather like we used to have in south London between South Suburban Co-op and Royal Arsenal CS.

Henry | 16.10.23 - 9:29 a.m. | #











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