The Guildhall on Lavenham Market Place. It is said that if you stand on Lavenham Market Place and look around you, every building you can see was standing at the time of the Wars of the Roses (1455 to 1496, I think). Quite a thought.
This morning I bought a grandfather clock before breakfast. Don't think I've ever done that before. It's nice to have new experiences as you get older. Been hard at it in the workshop most of today. Completed one job and done the majority of another. After supper (cod in a white sauce with new potatoes and our own runner beans - followed by stewed mirabelle plums, given us by a fellow choir member, and custard) we played a game of scrabble; score of well over 700 between us. Ann's out watering the garden. Nearly bedtime, so Goodnight all.
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I love the Guildhall. Such history in your architecture.
Odd you should mention the wars of the roses. Amongst the latest material of family tree info I've come across are several folk of various ages who died on the same day. 23rd. September 1459... The date of the opening battle of that war at Blore Heath. Our putative and in any case very distant relatives (I've still got a great deal of checking-up to do!) were in the Lancastrian army of 6000 who were trounced by the 3000 strong Yorkists.
Sir Hugh Venables, Sir John Legh and Sir John Egerton died that day, Sir Thomas Hesketh & Sir Richard Fitton survived and the fate of young Thomas Fitton is not recorded.
Speaking of doing things before breakfast, was it the Queen of Hearts who claimed to do 6 impossible things before breakfast?
Dashed if I could do even possible things before breakfast! It usually takes me till 2:00 post meridian to make breakfast. I need a route map to find a bowl and a metal detector to locate the spoons.
Thank you Lori. It's certainly survived well in large quantities in this area.The usual explanation given is that before the Black Death struck us this was a very rich wool area. We were very badly affected by it, the wool trade moved across to the midlands,and this became a very poor area. So instead of building new houses (which were not needed anyway) we went on and on repairing the old ones (and are still doing so). I think this is an over-simplification, but there's probably a large grain of truth in it.
Hi Crowbard. It was the White Queen in 'Through the Looking Glass.'
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