An undated school photo.

We are fairly sure this is the 1960s but we have very limited information on this Market Lavington School photo. Mrs Elisha is at the back – right end. She retired in 1968. The only captions wit...

A dinner treat for the Congregational men

Here we have a photo of a group of men from the Congregational Church sitting down to a meal together. We think the photo dates to between 1963 and 1972 and we believe that the location is The Mans...

Along the High Street – 1960s

We have recently acquired this postcard which we believe was taken by Peter Francis, probably from his upstairs window which was above his Church Street shop. The picture, however, shows the crossroad...

Canada Rise construction

Today we look at a photo which shows houses on Canada Rise nearing completion. A group of workers chat about what the next task should be. The two vehicles nearest the camera both carry an F reg...

A Northbrook View

These days we think of Northbrook as a road to nowhere. It’s a road that goes out of the back of the Market Place, down to the stream also called Northbrook and then up to the sands where it just st...

From the goods yard

Lavington had a railway station. It was by the bridge which the A360 road uses to get under the line. The road has traffic lights to control the road traffic under that bridge. A station was more tha...

Arts and crafts

The Old School was built in the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign. No doubt its three classrooms seemed perfectly adequate then. Class sizes could be huge and pupils sat at their desks all day. ...

A view of the village in the 1960s

The presence of Lavington Hill and Salisbury Plain is a draw for photographers, keen to get what looks like an aerial view of Market Lavington. This one dates from the 1960s so is fifty years old now....

A view from 10 Parsonage Lane

The photo we see today was taken by former Market Lavington resident, John Brooke. John lived at 10 Parsonage Lane also known by its original purpose as the Racquets Court. It’s a tall building and...

The photographer’s shop

There was a photographer’s shop in Market Lavington for about 100 years. Originally Alf Burgess and then his sons had premises almost next to the co-op. When Peter and Bessie Francis set up their bu...