Monday.

I remember, a few weeks ago in this blog, talking about guildhalls in Suffolk  Villages. I was comparing our  Guildhall, which is still in use, with Lavenham's Guildhall, and saying  how many Suffolk Villages have 'Guildhalls', 'Old Guildhalls', etc. usually  somewhere in the Village Centre. Often this occurs in a quite small village, and this  usually indicates that when the Guildhall was built, the quiet little village in which it now stands was a quite important town. The large, and obviously ancient, building to the left of centre in the above photo, is the  Old Guildhall in the  village of Monks Eleigh, about five miles or so from here. Monks Eleigh has a small river (the Brett, I think) running through it, a fine Church, a large old pub; and a shop, a general stores, which is run by local volunteers. And not much else. It's strange to think that five or six centuries ago it was a quite important, and probably prosperous town (a 'wool Town' in all probability). Somehow it  manages to give an impression of being a thriving little place still.