From the Easterton Echoes

The Easterton Echoes is a long standing news sheet serving, as you’d expect, Easterton. Much of the content is about events in the village but from time to time little extras creep in. This little s...

The Fairy Tale remembered

It was the fairy tale of 1981 – the wedding of future King, The Prince Charles and his beautiful young bride, Diana. The wedding was a big national event – one for which the world came to a stop a...

The Volunteer Arms

Time was, and not so long ago, that Market Lavington had four pubs. At the time of writing it still has two and one of them is up for sale. Today we look at a newspaper ad for the old Volunteer Arms ...

The View from the Church

The title of this blog is also the title of a one year only display for 2013 at the museum. We are displaying fairly modern photos taken by Maurice Baker, a lifelong village resident who, sadly, die...

Another view from the church tower

Maurice Baker is a former bell ringer at St Mary’s Market Lavington. No doubt this gave him access to the tower which, of course, gives scope for semi-aerial views of the village. We have recently b...