Recently Lavenham and Little Hall was in the grip of a biting easterly wind. There had been snow on the ground for the whole week, accompanied by freezing temperatures. In 1961 Reginald Brill had just arrived as warden of the newly established Gayer Anderson Hostel for Art Students and painted Snow in the Garden – […]
2021 – 02 Little Hall in the snow Read More »
The earliest film we’ve yet found was made in 1944 and can be seen at https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/197711/ . There’s shots of Little Hall near the beginning and briefly, towards the end. Little Hall has been a popular backdrop for films for over 50 years. Released in December 2020 was an adaptation by Pelham Elliott of Anthony
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Over the last 650 years Little Hall has had many and varied owners. The last residents before the property finally passed out of private hands were twin brothers named Gayer Anderson. They were distinguished army officers who bought the Great House in 1924. The range of buildings now known as Little Hall came as part
2020 – 09 Garden Opening continues for September Read More »
Past item from the lockdown year, 2020 LITTLE HALL WELCOMES YOU TO VISIT OUR BEAUTIFUL GARDEN. Little Hall’s beautiful hidden garden will be open to visitors FREE of CHARGE during the weekends of 1st-2nd and 8th-9th August, between 2-4pm. Little Hall’s beautiful hidden garden will be open to visitors FREE of CHARGE during the weekends
2020 – 07 Garden Opening – Summer 2020 Read More »
Lavenham Hidden Gardens on Sunday 9th June, 2019. This was our chance to show off our ‘hidden gem’ which lurks behind the wall at the top of Barn Street. Over 600 adults, children and assorted dogs came to look round. The sun gods shone on us after a soaking the day before and the day
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While Little Hall has been unable to open some of our volunteers have been kept busy doing tasks that can be done from a home computer. The result is a database and the beginning of a digital framework of the whole collection at Little Hall which includes the newly cleaned library books. Back in 2017
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Our planned exhibition to mark the commemoration of VE day on the weekend of the 8th/9th and 10th May unfortunately cannot now take place. However, we would like to bring you some elements of it here on our newly refreshed website. In Object of the Month our volunteer Catherine Smith explains the story behind the Chest of Drawers in
2020 – 05 A Little of the Home Front at Little Hall. Read More »
In 2019 we were pleased to welcome Michael Sutherill to Little Hall as our new curator. Michael, now retired, was formerly a curator with the National Trust and prior to that an Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings with English Heritage. Michael is supporting us in delivering a project to remove mould from the
2020 – 03 A new curator for Little Hall Read More »
In August 2011 we hosted a wonderful exhibition of glass art, entitled Art in Glass, showing the work of a local group of glass artists centred on the studios of Rosella Chester in Colchester. Their work was distributed around the house and garden, and the garden in particular provided a stunning back drop for the
2011 – 08 Art in Glass – Wed 24 August to Mon 29 August 2011 Read More »
