Basket making

Whilst searching for information about Charles Hitchcock, for yesterday’s blog post, we came upon an extract from the WI book. This now dates from more than 60 years ago and was produced as part of ...

A willow hook

Baskets used to be used for many purposes and many a village had its resident basket maker. In Easterton and Market Lavington we had four generations of the Mullings family fulfilling the role and mak...

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 ...

The Basket Maker

This is another article from that 1949 Market Lavington School Magazine which is called Lavington Forum. It is about Sid Mullings, the last in a long line of basket makers in the village. It was writ...