Friday, August 16, 2013

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















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