The Bishop Tanner Christmas Coal Charity

Amongst documents recently passed to the museum are papers concerning a number of charities. Here we see the accounts of one charity for 1907 – the Christmas Coal Charity funded by Bishop Tanner. Th...

Jack Merritt – reservist soldier

We have often featured photos of soldiers from elsewhere in the UK who were on training camps at Pond Farm. Today we are looking at a card sent by a Market Lavington man from his summer training camp ...

Paying James Neate

Today we look at another of the bills paid by Holloways of West Lavington. This time the recipient of money was James Neate. We can see that James Neate established his business in Market Lavington...

A mystery football team

How we’d love to be able to tell you more about this group of young men who formed a football team. Our records just say, ‘Postcard: Market Lavington Football Club’ Well we can do better tha...

A Memo from Robert Wadman

Robert Wadman was a farmer in Market Lavington. The 1881 census records Robert with his wife Sarah and 17 year old son, William as living on White Street where Robert farmed 750 acres employing fiftee...

A Much Travelled Leaf

We have featured items which belonged to the Baker family before. John Baker was a tin smith and trader, living and working in the property opposite the Co-op and next to Woodland Yard. He and his wif...