A builder’s day book

Amongst items given to the museum from the estate of Tom Gye we have a number of the day books used in the building trade. In these books each customer was recorded and indexed and the labour and mate...

Bills, bills, bills!

The Honourable Mrs Louisa Hay was a member of the Pleydell Bouverie family. She lived for virtually all of the second half of the nineteenth century as a widow at Clyffe Hall. The Gye family were bui...

The Grove Farm Estate

It’s a couple of dozen years since buildings were going up in Beechwood, Roman Way and Saxon Close – new areas for buildings as far as modern Market Lavington was concerned.  The building works a...

Building George Mews

  George Mews was built in the yard between 58 to 60 High Street, Market Lavington back in 1994. The old sheds there were demolished.   Building materials arrived and ground work beg...