Fixing the Road

It is tempting to say that both Northbrook and Drove Lane are roads to nowhere. Northbrook starts at the Market Place and makes its way down and over the Northbrook stream and then up on the sandstone...

The Great Storm of October 28th 2013

Market Lavington appears to have escaped fairly lightly from the storm which swept across the south of England. People who were up reported that at about 5:15 in the morning truly astonishingly stron...

Pink Windows

October is breast cancer awareness month. Our local Post Office in Market Lavington has supported this event and as part of that they have created a pink window display. This is modern stuff – Oc...

Recent wildlife sightings

We haven’t featured our wildlife book for some time so here are a couple of recent photos we have received. They all help to build a picture of 21st century wildlife in our parish. We’ll start wi...

The Ironmongers – then and now

Some twenty years ago the owner of what, by then, was called Lavington Hardware Shop was visited by a group of people who gave him a couple of photos of the shop. The photos dated from the mid 1960s. ...

Miscellany 2013

The Museum Miscellany, now in its fourth year, has become a part of the social scene in Market Lavington. It seems to be a case of ‘be there or be square’. OK, perhaps it’s the opposite for by a...

Rolling and Drilling

The Miscellany, a look back at our parish past, was yesterday. Today we’ll look to the present and remind people of the need to record what happens now so that, in the future, people can know how we...

Lavington Flower Show – 2013

At Market Lavington Museum we do like to record the here and now so that future people can have an understanding of how we lived in the early years of the 21st century. An annual event in Market Lavi...

Easterton Show

Yesterday, August 26th 2013, was Easterton Show day. It is always a pleasure for us, at Market Lavington Museum, to have a stand at Easterton Show. We don’t aim to raise money but we do aim to rais...

Canada Rise then and now

Canada Woods and the 1970s housing on a road called Canada Rise were so named because Canadian soldiers occupied the area whilst training, during World War I. Today we are looking at a wintry photo o...