Back to Stratford

We bid goodbye to Patrick and Margaret and caught the train back towards London.

Train travel is so expensive. It cost around $46 to travel the distance equivalent to Gosford to Central which we do for about $16.

We stopped off at Hackney to see a National Trust house, Sutton House.

Sutton House was built in 1535 by Sir Ralph Sadleir, Principal Secretary of State to Henry VIII, and is the oldest residential building in Hackney. It is a rare example of a red brick building from the Tudor period. Sutton House became home to a succession of merchants, sea captains, Huguenot silk-weavers, Victorian schoolmistresses and Edwardian clergy. The frontage was modified in the Georgian period, but the core remains an essentially Tudor building. Oak panelled rooms, including a rare 'linen fold' room, Tudor windows and carved fireplaces survive intact, and an exhibition tells the history of the house and its former occupants.

Afterwards we caught the bus back to Stratford and relaxed for the remainder of the afternoon.