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A computer generated image showing the way in which prefabricated frames were raised to assemble medieval houses. The house in the background on which this scene is based is in the Market Place.

Lavenham





		During the second world war the 487th Bomb Group of the American 8th Air Force was based here, and Lavenham is still a place of pilgrimage for many US ex-servicemen who served here.


	Lavenham is well worth a visit. It is a beautiful town in the east of England full of tudor half timbered buildings. The 16th century Guildhall in the main market square is a masterpiece, but there are many other fine buildings to see. For centuries time passed Lavenham by, leaving it in a sleepy backwater and spared the ‘improvements’ of developers, not unlike Rothenburg in Germany which you will also find on this site.