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Lavenham, Melford Hall, Flatford and 100th Bomber Group Museum

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 For some time, Jo has wanted to go to Flatford, to see the mill and Constable country. Very much on the spur of the moment I booked us in for two nights at Tomcat Farm - an Caravan and Camping club Certificated site - more on that later. We decided that rather than just heading straight there, we would head down to Lavenham and see the Guild Hall  - something that I had never seen, and a place that many will recognise as Lavenham is full of medieval timber houses - some 320 listed buildings! It has also been used as the back drop in some of the Harry Potter movies. (Its not an old camper van - its a food outlet!) The Crooked House - and I don't know what the car was... The Guildhall Inside the Guild Hall was a knowledgable NT guide who told us some of the history and then left us free to explore - the building had had multiple uses from its original guild usage right through to being a work house and a prison. What I was not expecting to find was a room devoted to the Second...