George Pike advertises

George Pike was one of Market Lavington’s butchers and he placed an advert which appeared on the front page of the same paper we featured, with a Lavington and Devizes Motor Services advert, earlier...

Devizes and Wiltshire Advertiser – September 18th 1924

The front page of this paper certainly lives up to its name. It advertises all sorts. But the big advert is for the Lavington and Devizes Motor Services Ltd. The trips out for the coming week are...

Church choir outing

Let’s start by looking at the back of a postcard for that has the caption. We can see the postcard is battered but we can also read that this is St Mary’s Church choir outing 1923 or 24 And ...

A prize draw ticket

We have published this ticket before on the museum blog. We are grateful that somebody thought to save such a thing just over 90 years ago. We make sure we still do the same today so here we presen...

The Guides of 1924

Yes, there were guides in the area more than 90 years ago. In fact they were the West Lavington Guides, but we believe Market Lavington girls will be in these photos. Amongst Market Lavington girls we...

A Tombola Ticket

It was back in 2011 that we published a list of tombola winners for the Market Lavington and Easterton Hospital Effort of 1923. The first prize was a fat lamb offered by Mr Watts. The same event was ...

A bill for bricks

Bricks were made in Market Lavington for at least 200 years and were made up until the Second World War. In the twentieth century, the ownership of the brickworks had passed to the Holloway family at ...

Doctor Donald Hood

We were recently asked if we knew anything of Dr Hood, born Market Lavington, who featured in a book about the Duke of Rutland. We had to find out more, so here is what we now know. We started by fin...

Merritt Brothers – Farriers

Today we show another of our receipts kept by Holloways of West Lavington and now findable at Market Lavington Museum. Today we look at a receipt issued by Merritt Brothers who were farriers and gener...

Peggy Gye remembered

It doesn’t seem possible that it is now more than four years since our museum founder and, for many years the curator, died. But it was back in 2010 that Peggy left us. We, at the museum, do not for...