Kentwell Hall (www.kentwell.co.uk) is a large manor house in Long Melford, Suffolk. As a way to keep the manor house going, in the seventies they started to do Tudor reenactments - volunteers dress up in as close to authentic Tudor dress as possible, and live in a Tudor style. These continue today, 3 weeks in the Spring, over the summer bank holiday and a week at Michaelmas. http.//www.kentwell.co.uk/events/tudor During the week there are school visits and at the weekends the general public may visit. We (well some of us) hope to join them in 2013. In this album is all our visits in 2012 - we went 4 times in total. You can find previous years' visits elsewhere in our albums.
	First visit of the year, 23rd June 1556/2012. Here we see some Tudors dancing on the great sward.
	Heather and her hat.
	Our friend, Mistress Julian, is a spinner in the weaving shed. She's using a Great Wheel.
	Alex and Heather love the space to run.
	Another friend, Mirabel Honeypot, is showing us how to make butter.
	Mistress Julian's son is pretending to sleep but the light isn't good.
	Now we jump to the 7th July. Wearing garlands for a competition.
	Getting some tips on kit. This is not a good style of bowl.
	These are good bowls and spoons.
	These are good mugs.
	We've got baskets from the fair.
	Now we jump to 24th August. This man is cutting fresh branches to make drumsticks.
	The sutlers are making pottage for the masses.
	Here the dyers are drying their wool.
	In the Smithy
	The gentry having dinner
	The kitchen where it is cooked
	Alex and Heather at the carved old tree, corridor side
	Door knocker side
	Ladder side
	Stairwell side
	Heather and Poppet Annie.
	Now it's the 29th September. This man is a solider, modelling a doublet for Alex's poppet.
	Hatband