A birthday mug

Ethel Mary Gye was the first born child of Joseph and Lucretia (née Redstone). Her birth was marked by the purchase of a specially decorated mug and this mug is now in Market Lavington Museum. Ethel...

Pond Farm Camp kitchen

Pond Farm Camp was used by Commonwealth men during World War One but before that it was used as summer training camps, often for territorial soldiers. Many of the postcards of the camp show row after ...

Pond Farm Camp – 1909

In the Edwardian era – the start of the 20th century – Pond Farm, on Salisbury Plain above Easterton, was a working farm but it was owned by the War Department and used by them for summer camps f...

The Cooper Family at New Farm

New Farm is, or rather was, one of the farms on Salisbury Plain, in the parish of Market Lavington. To reach New Farm now you’d have to go to the top of Lavington Hill and then, if the flags werenâ€...

Pond Farm Camp – 1909

There are many different views of army camps at Pond Hill in about 1909. These summer camps for territorial soldiers had been a part of life for some time. But by 1909 there was an awareness that the ...

Before World War One

This year, and quite rightly, there has been much talk about World War One – and we’ve done our share of that. But of course, parts of our area were militarised before the Great War – that war w...

A Souvenir of Market Lavington

Today we have a postcard sent home by a soldier visiting a camp on Salisbury Plain. It is a multi-view card. The five views shown are of the church, exterior and interior at the top, the church fro...

The Pond Farm Camp Ambulance

Pond Farm Camp was used for ‘summer holiday’ exercise camps by many different regiments. Huge quantities of men spent weeks or fortnights ‘enjoying’ the uncertain delights of Salisbury Plain. ...

Church Parade

Today we look at another recently given photo of Pond Farm Camp. This time the men are all in uniform and the photo is captioned ‘Church Parade’. Our guess is that this was in 1909. It was in t...

The Man in White

Pictures of Pond Farm Camp have featured from time to time on the blog. This was the military encampment up on Salisbury Plain above Easterton. Market Lavington Museum has recently received further ph...