A public weigh-in

Brave or what? Standing outside a pub on a pair of scales to see how much weight you have lost. But that is what Mrs Ann Withers, landlady of the old Volunteer Arms, was doing back in September 1976. ...

Threshing in 1976

We have seen something of this occasion in a blog post in September 2012 but this colour snap catches the dust and grime of the threshing process. Now let’s be clear. This was not normal back in ...

Freddy Chapman

  For many years Freddy (sometimes Fred and sometimes Freddie and sometimes Frederick) Chapman was the manager of Walton’s store in the middle of Market Lavington. Freddy, as we see here, w...