Knapp Farm barns – a watercolour

Our stock of artistic interpretations of the local scene has increased considerably in recent times. Today we are looking at the Knapp Farm barns before their conversion to dwellings. Sadly this is un...

The barn at Lime Kiln

There have been many farms up on Salisbury Plain. Those in Market Lavington were taken over as part of the military range in about 1910. Farmers, their families and workers all had to go. There was no...

Knapp Farm Barns

People who live in what is now called White Horse Barns may like to see this photo of their homes, before conversion. This photo, obviously not taken in ideal conditions, dates from about 1997, soo...

Knapp Farm Barn

The second half of the 1950s was a time when wartime austerity was ending, we’d ‘never had it so good’ and it was time to get rid of old fashioned things and replace them with new. And that is p...

The bridge in Easterton

At Easterton Country Show, last month, we were visited by great grandchildren of Samuel Moore of the jam factory. Samuel had two sons, Wilfred and William. The two younger men continued to run the ...

Knapp Farm barn fire

On the night of 16th/17th September 1989 fire broke out at a barn at Knapp Farm. It was soon a raging inferno. Our curator, who lived on the opposite side of the village, recalls not just the sight...

The Old Barn

Not many barns can claim to be major community buildings but the old barn on Parsonage Lane certainly has been. The barn was in Manorial ownership at one time, being in the grounds of The Old House. ...