Sudbury And Children's Museum

We headed north, planning on visiting a few more English sites before crossing into Scotland. First was the great house at Sudbury and its associated children's museum.

Sudbury frontal view

Another great grand staircase

Comfy comforts

China in the dining room

The insects painted on cover blemishes from the old firing
process

Beautiful great hall, particularly the ceiling

In the two-story library; note reading case
and spiral staircase in background

Embroidered jewelry box

Dorsal view

The children's museum is in one of the side
buildings; I would have enjoyed it more
had I not taken a wrong turn a visited the
large and very disturbing exhibit on child
labor in the 18th and 19th centuries...it's
hard to look at the toys of the few when so
many children never had childhoods; or
died young; I credit the Trust for thus telling
the whole story, which is not pretty

Hand-powered hobby-horse trike

Old-fashioned toys

New-fangled toys

The collection is particularly strong in 19th century
automata, machines really, which, I surmise, were less
for children than for adults and their inner children