Church and Grove – 1920s

Some photos capture the quiet and rural nature of a place and we think this one did just that. We are looking at the west end and north side of St Mary’s church. We think this was taken in 1929. ...

Fred Sayer and Jess Trotter

Fred and Jess were both Market Lavington people when they married in the spring of 1929. A photo of the couple in their wedding finery has recently been given to the museum. (Thanks, Jim). Jessica He...

Harry Sanders again

A few days ago, in our blog called Matters Genealogical, we talked of the search for information about Harry Sanders. Our information was limited. We knew he died at Fiddington House in 1929 and had ...

Some of the loves of Bill Elisha

We’ll leave May, his wife, out on this occasion. As far as we know Bill and May had a long and happy marriage which lasted from 1929 until Bill died in 1984. We are not even going to talk about fo...

The Girls on the Plain

This photo of five young ladies and only one man is captioned as ‘The Group on Salisbury Plain. It comes from the recently acquired album which dates from around 1929. We never really expected to...

The Close

Today we take a look at another photo in that lovely little 1929 photo album we recently acquired. It shows a group of people standing on a bridge in The Close in Market Lavington. The Close is not...

On Ledge Hill

This is another photo from the little album we recently acquired. We assume, as with other photos in this collection that it dates from 1929 and it is clearly captioned. If we cut out the album pag...

Broadwell 1929

We are looking, today, at another photo from that rather interesting little photo album we recently acquired. Once again, the year 1929 is assumed from the date given on other pictures.   We ...

Northbrook – 1929

Here we have a recently acquired photograph. It is wonderful how these images of old continue to come to light. This photo is in a small album in which many of the photos are not local. Others are lab...

Mabel Sayer

Mabel was the wife of Fred who drove, ran and operated motor bus services in the Lavington area Mabel was born as Mabel Weston in Bath in the year 1880. She married Fred in the Kings Norton area which...