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Woodbridge Tide Mill celebrates 850 years on the quayside site in 2021.
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As lockdown restrictions ease Suffolk s museums are opening their doors to visitors so why not put them on your list of things to do this summer?
They re a great way to get to know more about the county and what makes it tick. Many are staffed by knowledgeable volunteers who will tell you about the collections in their care, bringing your visit alive.
Many Suffolk towns and villages have museums dedicated to their heritage but there are also specialist collections such as the Museum of East Anglian Life, East Anglia Transport Museum and Ipswich Transport Museum. Here are some to whet your appetite.
Sunday 25 April 2021
Sitting down to write a 1,000-word guide to Mayfair is like sitting down to write the number six while simultaneously rotating your left foot in a clockwise direction. Not impossible but trickier than you might imagine. To keep it short, what follows is selective and subjective, reflecting the wide-eyed enthusiasms of its author, a bumpkin from the sticks, easily impressed by superficial big-city glamour.
A busy street in Mayfair
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SOME BACKGROUND ON MAYFAIR
Much of Mayfair – bounded by Oxford Street to the north, Piccadilly to the south, Regent Street to the east and Park Lane to the west – belongs to the Grosvenor family. It came into their possession in 1677, when Sir Thomas Grosvenor married Mary Davies, a 12-year-old heiress whose dowry included some marshy, undeveloped land north of the Thames. The couple had three daughters and five sons, but things took an awkward turn following Thomas’s death. The boys had Mary committed to a lunat