AMERICANS EXPLORING LAVENHAM IN ENGLAND

[@andrea22213]

The houses are timber framed, and the wood has twisted and distorted over time. These buildings are older than the USA, by several hundred years.

[@Shybuyer]

That village is intact because it was once a very rich wool town but declined when the wool and cotton industries moved north due to the damp weather up there was better for machine spinning and weaving as the moisture made it less likely for the twine to snap. The population went with the work. The place was then so poor and irrelevant that it was almost abandoned for many many years and it was not even worth pulling the old houses down and building new ones. As you can imagine, it has been considerably refurbished since its post-war re-discovery.

[@RJS4287]

Houses built with Oak Frames. Could only be worked on when greenish. As they dried out over the years they bent. Wattle infill flexible enough to cope. Thirty years ago lived in Lavenham. Big USAAF bomber base in WW2.

[@juniordunkley2751]

My god I've always said UK is an amazing country so much variety in such a small place we should appreciate that oh and the the girls look wonderful in their shorts

[@nosnoj]

The church was also featured in the film Witch Finder General.

[@eaglebeagle1408]

Hi Lovely video, my family have lived here since 1700. It’s most definitely pronounced and said quickly “Lanham” in the Suffolk dialect. De Vere house is a bed and breakfast. We remember the 48th Bombardment Group 8th USAAF here. The Airman’s bar at The Swan is a must.

[@markhorton8578]

The frames twisted because they were built before high quality steel was around. English Oak is incredibly hard once cured, so the tools would have to be re-sharpened very frequently every day. That was what they did with ships, making them so expensive. However for houses they worked the timber whilst it was still "green" and freshly cut. Much easier to work, but the downside was that it would twist and sag under load as it cured. It would also split so you will see "shakes" or splits in the surface.

[@stevetheduck1425]

In some parts of the UK, wooden houses were built using old ship's timbers, which can explain some of the curving beams, but inland, most houses were built from local wood, usually unseasoned, so over many years they split and distort. In some places you can see repairs, or new pieces pegged into the old. If the family was successful, they often built new rooms or wings on the house, or even a new house across the front of the old, leading to a courtyard or covered space in the middle of the house. Even Buckingham House became Buckingham Palace by this process.

[@anghinetti]

The queen mentioned was Elizabeth I. Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 until 1603. Born 1533, she was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Queen Anne Boleyn. Saint Peter and Saint Paul is the parish church of Lavenham rather than a cathedral. Construction began about the year 1340. A notable wool church, it replaced a wooden structure dating from Anglo-Saxon times.

[@travelingfamilyoffive]

Thank you for all the information 😊 England has so much history.

[@JC0023]

Oh my god! Best KZbin video ever. I'm a big fan of KZbin. Joe Rogan, my football fan channels, and jus cool stuff. But OMG travelling family of five, that was the most relaxing beautiful heavenly video ever. Firstly what a beautiful town. And on a summers day. That's what I love most about England, historic places with a nice meal out, souviner shop etc. To me heaven. And your tour is sooo good, Michelle. I said before a to network are missing a trick! You'd be great tv presenter. and your calm soft manner, soo relaxing! And I've watched every video of yours and yet you still make me think what a beautiful family you are. Your young man is soo well behaved and sweet. Your girls are now beautiful young women, and also soo lovely and sweet. Your just such a lovely family to spend time with! USA is soo lucky to have you!! Also this was filmed before move back to states? Thankyou travelling family of five feeling sooo relaxed and happy. After stressful day at work the energy you guys give off is completely differnt! Awesome thankyou!!!!! 👌😀

[@travelingfamilyoffive]

Thank you for always having such kind words. I truly enjoy my time with my family as I know you do. Also thank you for your continued support. I like making these videos. We traveled to so many great places in England/UK. I hope others will visit after watching my videos 😊

[@JC0023]

Yes I’m a family guy too! It’s beautiful! And really lovely to follow you guys! My pleasure to have kind words, as you deserve. And yes I will visit that town I never knew existed looked beautiful 😁

[@striplow3011]

Good vlog keep em coming 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸 hope your settling in us 🇺🇸 ✌👍

[@leecal5774]

Really enjoyable video. Always interesting following you exploring stuff for the first time. Great to watch. You must have a big backload of videos. Because I remember your Instagram photos from there back in the summer. It must be odd for you re-watching this now though?

[@travelingfamilyoffive]

Thank you 😊 I am so behind in posting, I apologize. I do enjoy editing them though. Takes me back to that moment ❤️

[@marksip01234]

We owned a Grade 2 listed cottage (Built approx 1760s) for 5 years, called Little Thatch , but had a tiled roof ! That removed in the 60s. It had sloping floors and wooden beams rescued from old Royal navy ships . Cute but no offroad parking, so absolute pain to live in as in a very populare village

[@susanletissier9729]

The houses remind of an old nursery rhyme 'the house that Jack built', and GPS can get you into trouble . Its known as wool church, the town made its wealth through the wool trade so the churches of such towns were rather grand. With GPS it can get vehicles stuck under bridges and narrow roads also killed!!!!!!!

[@travelingfamilyoffive]

This is very true! Once my GPS had me down some old dirt road, telling me to continue straight- there was water straight ahead 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@shaunwild8797]

Lovely vid. I only live 15 miles from there.

[@marksip01234]

The builder of the crooked house had been down the pub for a few hours before hand - but probably subsidence

[@travelingfamilyoffive]

🤣👍

[@anghinetti]

The structure settling rather than subsidence. Wooden-framed buildings of old had a tendency to settle.

[@charlottecarlton-moss1045]

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

[@simonpowell2559]

Love it!

[@samanthaobertelle4966]

The houses are Tudor houses they were all built in this style in the 15 hundreds.....The queen was Elizabeth 1st who rained in that period. X

[@derektaylor6389]

reigned not rained did you go to school

[@samanthaobertelle4966]

@@derektaylor6389 yes I did ! ...but did you grow up learning to have kindness ! .?..please go back in to your pathetic hole that you climbed out from ...have you got nothing better to do in your sad life than to be nasty about a spelling mistake ? Just jog on and have a lovely evening ...!

[@anghinetti]

Quite a number of the buildings in Lavenham are much older than the 16th century. Construction of the Little Hall, for instance, began in the 1390s.

[@anghinetti]

@@derektaylor6389: 'Reigned rather than rained. Did you go to school?' That is how your comment should have appeared...

[@samanthaobertelle4966]

@@anghinetti 😊😊

[@paulfarrar8846]

Hi, watched a lot of your UK stuff. Mild rebuff coming, most (if not all) place names that end in "ham" are not pronounced with the "ham" sound more "um" or "em" so Birmingham becomes "Birmingum" - and Suffolk will be Suffuk, we tend to downplay the last syllable and shorten it. Stay here for another 5 years and you will get the hang of it

[@torbenjohansen6955]

the house is build with a wooden frame. the filling Inbetween the beams was mostly made of dryed unburned briks. laters it was filled with burned briks.

[@Split10uk]

I don't doubt many of those houses have subsided, but they worked with what they had. The spirit level was invented in 1661, but was not used by carpenter as a hand tool until much later..1777 at earliest. It wasn't like they had much in the way of hoses or glass tubes either.

[@simonpowell2559]

I think they used green wood, bound to shrink and twist. Kind of crazy with "wattle and daub" walls it just moved over the years and is still here.

[@brochestedbs]

Lavenham looks like that because it became wealthy from the wool trade but, after that collapsed due to cheaper imports, the village became very poor and there was no money to build newer houses. My mother was born just a couple of miles away. Some houses are crooked due to subsidence or drying and warping of the timber frames.

[@juliebrooke6099]

Suffolk is pronounced sufuc

[@annewillis6100]

And lavenum not lavernham

[@derektaylor6389]

those nails are handmade by blacksmiths

[@SiGr10614]

THOSE HOUSES ARE OLDER THAN THE US DECLARATION.

[@SiGr10614]

@@sillybilly1662 I know right! this family is so brainwashed into only seeing what is so commercially driven in the US that they see very little good elsewhere in the world. It's moron like these who make the US look terrible. They are Trump supporters, so it makes sense because he has made the country an entire laughing stock.

[@simonpowell2559]

That's right, but mum and dad England will help you to grow up. Just joking. We love our kids.

[@juliebrooke6099]

And Lavenham is pronounced lavenum.

[@charlestaylor9424]

Cockhorse means a toy or fake horse.

[@Andy_U]

Hiya. The stuffed 'toys' you were looking at were very expensive because they were made by Steiff, a German quality toymaker founded in the late 19th Century. Over time they become very collectable and can command high prices at auction. Some have fetched 6-figures. Looking forward to your US vids. Stay safe. All the best to you.

[@davemunro6380]

Have you guys been to Scotland yet? Loch Ness might be good fun :D

[@travelingfamilyoffive]

We have been to Scotland, beautiful place full of lovely people. Unfortunately we did not find the Loch Ness monster 😂

[@davemunro6380]

@@travelingfamilyoffive I'll need to look up that video thank you ❤️

[@stephenhulme6583]

They did not build them like that. It happen over time. O come on are you for real.

[@JLuke2oo7]

What are you actually trying to say here..? Your comment could be taken both ways lol

[@gray3553]

Check out the film "The Witch finder General" starring Vincent Price.

[@Creativecoverz]

Sowfowlk? Or suffolk?

[@annewillis6100]

Or in the UK suffuk or norfuk

[@L70PRY]

Oh I live in lavenham

[@michellee7465]

That’s a church and it was completed in 1525. You only get cathedral’s in a city. 😁

[@annewillis6100]

Probably pronounced. Lavenum rather then Lavernham. E.g. stratfud, not Stratford

[@brochestedbs]

Pronounced Lavnum - in Sufferk

[@immogenclark]

0:26 seconds in and I'm already triggered, she pronounced Suffolk wrong which is pronounced suff-ok and Lavenham, lav-en-oom/n

[@rpmillam]

Also crooked, the houses was built with green wood.

[@bobmoulton3319]

Sad to see you go.

[@liukin95]

1586 would've been the time Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne, our current Queen's name stake!

[@derektaylor6389]

it is sake nor stake

[@baylessnow]

@@derektaylor6389 it is sake not stake. FTFY ;¬)

[@dantaylor7344]

£800 for a teddy? How is that shop open? Crazy.

[@shaunwild8797]

It must of belonged to Jesus.😃

[@samanthaobertelle4966]

It was a Steiff bear ...They are extremely expensive but very high quality and something that holds its price ...an invest piece ..some of the older Steiff bears can fetch thousands of pounds ! ...x

[@dantaylor7344]

@@samanthaobertelle4966 It's a toy.

[@samanthaobertelle4966]

@@dantaylor7344 I would never spend that amount on a bear ! ....some people do ! ...but that's their preference...but like I said these steiff bears are an investment piece so not really a toy ...I suppose you would not give it to a child ! You would purchase a much cheaper one to play with ...😊

[@dantaylor7344]

@@samanthaobertelle4966 Seems a silly place to sell a teddy that expensive in an old shop not behind a safety counter or glass cabinet. Agreed?

[@Brookspirit]

Ouch! Her pronunciation of Lavenham and Suffolk was painful.

[@TurtlePower99]

And this was filmed when?

[@juliebrooke6099]

Well you keep watching don’t you Lord Lucan? No one is forcing you to.

[@juniordunkley2751]

That includes Michelle when I say girls

[@paulc2689]

.... There's Queen One and Queen Two .....

[@jackbee204]

Sadly the channel just doesn't feel the same now you are back in the USA

[@rpmillam]

Nail no a Trenail.

[@trevormillar2755]

It's pronounced "Suffuk"; on second thoughts stick to "Suff-folk"

[@johnjohn6486]

your funny.

[@RogerB747]

Pronounced Lavenem

[@MegaBoilermaker]

God help you if you move out to explore the rest of the UNITED KINGDOM AS SOME OF US DO NOT SPEAK eNGLISH as a first language ! and we have been here for a long time.

[@rikward6955]

who cares lol

[@Howiedewitt123]

My grandparents live there. Grown up like a second home. Lovely place

[@Howiedewitt123]

My grandpa is the parish council chairman 😂👊🏻

[@melspring8555]

I just found out I'm a decedent of Thomas spring which helped pay for the church and is buried their

[@Howiedewitt123]

It’s the wrong house oh no !!