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...

The Cooper Family Egg Basket

This little basket is of trug style. We do not know who made it  but we know that the Cooper family, of Parsonage Lane, used it for collecting and carrying eggs during the 1890s. Current tradition...

The Mullings’s Willow Hook

The Mullings family have featured before on these pages. They made baskets in the village from the 1870s through to the 1950s. In fact the first Mr Mullings, (George by name) was a basket maker inthe ...

Basket Making Tools

Market Lavington had its very own family of basket makers for more than 100 years. Four generations of the Mullings family lived and worked in Market Lavington or Easterton from the 1850s until the 19...

Alfred Mullings and Family

The Mullings family lived in Market Lavington and Easterton for at least four generations. They earned their living making baskets which, in those pre plastic-bag days, were such an essential part of ...