Latest Little Hall and Lavenham News
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Craft Demonstration Day on Sunday 25th August
Local craftspeople will be in the house and garden from 11am until 4pm explaining how they produce their wares using age old techniques. Lavenham itself has been a centre for making and creating throughout its
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Object of the Month: Praying Child
As visitors to Little Hall leave the library, they see mounted on the chimney of the inner hall fireplace a semi-circular relief of a girl kneeling in prayer. This was rescued from a demolition site
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Artisan Market Came Again, Spring Bank Holiday
We’ve just had our Little Hall Artisan Market, a selling exhibition featuring ceramics, blacksmithing, woodturning, woollen rugs and throws, willow work and much more besides. This took place over the late Spring Bank Holiday weekend
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Spring at Little Hall
As Spring rolls in, the Little Hall is opening its doors and welcoming visitors again. We will be open every afternoon this season, from 1pm-4pm, with group visits available in the mornings. This season will
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Meet for Art
We open for our 2024 season on 23rd March but organised groups can book at any time of the year. On a Saturday in early March The Society of East Anglian Watercolourists enjoyed a full
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Little Hall’s Window Glass, Old and New
The Gayer-Anderson twins moved into the Great House in 1923 but had to wait until 1931 when the tenants vacated no.20 in the North wing of Litle Hall before they could start to restore it.
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The Changing Face of Little Hall
Since the Gayer-Anderson brothers arrived in Lavenham, Little Hall has been through a succession of changes, and especially in the face it presents to the Market Place. We can see how it looked in 1929
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70 Years Ago
What was happening at Little Hall nearly 70 years ago? Little Hall has appeared in film on a number of occasions over the years but this one is the earliest yet discovered. This newspaper cutting
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100 years ago – the first official party to enter Tutankhamun’s tomb
Major Gayer-Anderson was a member of the official party at the private opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun on 17th February 1923. At that time he was Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner and had
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Is volunteering on your to-do list this year?
Step inside Little Hall to discover a house which mirrors the changing fortunes of Lavenham. Positioned in a prime location on the market place and built in the 14th century for wealthy clothiers its history
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Little Hall Shop
There are several different collections which reflect some of the works in the house. The Panel Collection uses an image taken from the “room with eleven doors” and has been used on several items, for
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Little Hall on Screen
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