A shopping basket

Baskets are something of a speciality at our museum. Market Lavington’s Mullings family were in place making baskets of all sorts and sizes for three generations. There had been an earlier generatio...

A lunch basket

What we look at today is an elegant little basket, designed to carry lunch for one person who may have been working out in the fields. Our basket shows some of the ravages of time, but apart from havi...

A Bill from Alf Mullings

The Mullings family came from Devizes. William settled in Market Lavington in around 1870 and set up his basket making business which his son, Alf, continued and then Sid, Alf’s son also carried it ...

Sid Mullings

Sid Mullings was the last in a line of basket makers in Market Lavington in Easterton. His father and grandfather both made baskets in Market Lavington and a member of the previous generation worked a...

James Mullings – 1811 – 1860

We doubt whether James Mullings ever lived in Market Lavington. He was born in Devizes in 1911 and the records for 1841 and 1851 say that was where he lived. People who know of the Mullings family i...

When The Spring was a country lane.

The road through Market Lavington is a ministry classified B road – the B3098. But this road has various different names as it crosses the parish. At the end nearest to Easterton, it is called High ...

A Mullings Basket

Market Lavington Museum has several baskets made by the Mullings family. There were four generations of Mullings making baskets in the area, starting with  George who was working in Easterton in 1851...

A Basket Case

A basket with a history This basket tells something of the story of Market Lavington for it is a story of the craftsman who made it, the gentlewoman who owned it and the employees daughter who was gi...