This is not a place to rush through or tick off a bucket list. It is a place that rewards patience, a place to linger when others hurry past. To be here is to step into a world where time folds in on itself, where the genius loci appears to those willing to invest their time.
Each and every building in Lavenham has a story to tell, either within the pattern of the dragon post or writ large within a wall.
Who’d have thought a humble phone call might be so significant? That literacy, language and poetry might be key to underpinning our common humanity? Every English teacher and lecturer should shout it from the rooftops.
A nod to Banister Fletcher: Timber Framed Buildings
"Could the essence of a place hold a palpable and manifest memory of the past through the process of quantum entanglement? "
Masterpieces of Medieval Open Timber Roofs: Raphael Brandon and J. Arthur Brandon, Dover Publications 2005. Original - David Bogue, London 1849
Hidden Gems: Joiner's Hall, Salisbury