Being a Pixie

“I wanted to be a Fairy but I was a Pixie”. That’s what Lily told us when we showed her some Girl Guide and Brownie memorabilia recently. Amongst this collection of newly acquired Girl Guide and...

Mr Cooper washing

Some of the scenes we discover on photos, within living memory for the oldest folks, seem almost unbelievable now. Mains water came to Market Lavington as recently as 1936. Prior to that (and afterwa...

Easterton Shop – 1930s

We have recently gained a number of postcards of Easterton and this one has excited some interest. The scene is clear. The main focus of the photo is the shop – the one near the bottom of Easterton�...

A football team

A few days ago this postcard dropped through our curator's letter box in an envelope and with accompanying letter. The sender, a lovely chap who has suffered a stroke and is bedridden, thought, f...

Church Street in the 1930s

If an excuse was needed for showing this picture it is that it has a clear ‘Volunteer Arms’ pub sign on the right. This year we will have a display about pubs in Market Lavington and Easterton –...

A vegetable mill

If you speak French you’ll realise that the item we look at today is just that – a vegetable mill for it says so on the handle. And there we have it – Moulin – Legumes which must be French ...

A Charabanc trip

This photo is a tad careworn but we have enough information to make it interesting. It dates from about 1930 and shows an all-male charabanc party at a stopover, almost certainly in Salisbury. A go...

Butcher’s delivery

This is a still from a promotional film shot and edited by Peter Francis during the inter war years. The film shows the full process – and we really mean full – of getting meat from farm to door....

Picking flowers

We were recently sent a photo of a group of people – mostly women – picking flowers. The picture was sent to us by Margaret who is a direct descendant of Samuel Moore – the man who turned jam m...

On the clay pit

A few days ago we featured Tom George who was born at the brickworks in 1920. His father was the manager there. We have him again today, this time playing on a raft on the clay pit. These days we ...