George Pike advertises

George Pike was one of Market Lavington’s butchers and he placed an advert which appeared on the front page of the same paper we featured, with a Lavington and Devizes Motor Services advert, earlier...

Clover Leaf Ice Cream

We have recently been given another advert from Harry Hobbs’ shop which stood more or less opposite the Green Dragon on Market Lavington High Street. This one is a metal sign on legs which could hav...

Memorabilia from Ken Mundy’s shop

Whenever our curator gives a talk to a group, particularly within Market Lavington, he always likes to include a photo of Ken Mundy. Ken was a village character – the local cobbler and shoe shop kee...

Weetabix

We have another advert from Harry Hobbs’ shop today and we think this one may date from the 1930s or 40s It’s a simple sheet of card which could fold and it is for Weetabix. This is a product whic...

A Persil Advert

This is yet another advert from Harry Hobbs’ High Street shop. This one was designed to be used with its product – a giant sized box of Persil. Persil is a laundry detergent and when it was i...

Water Biscuits

What do many of us like at the end of a meal? Well, for some of us a bit of cheese goes down well – with a crispy biscuit to hold it. Harry Hobbs obviously sold water biscuits in his Market Lavingto...

Round the Bend

We have had many new items in the museum this year and that’s fantastic both in the museum and for this blog. We do like to make this blog a bit random – rather like our Museum Miscellany which wi...

It’s a breeze

We love our old adverts from Harry Hobbs’s High Street Shop. We love them even if we are not 100% sure what the product advertised actually was. This one is for a product called Breeze.This card ad,...

Pat-a-Fish

We are looking at another advert from Harry Hobbs' shop today. Most of these adverts date back to the 1950s. We wonder if this one is from the 1960s. This is an advert for breadcrumbs. Our curator ...

Say McVitie’s!

This is another of our adverts which came from Harry Hobbs shop which used to be just opposite the Green Dragon on High Street. This one is different from all the others in being made of thin sheet m...