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Frog face
A few days ago we featured a piece of crested commemorative ware in the shape of an old arm chair. Its friend, which arrived with it, is in the shape of a frog with a big gaping mouth. This is the...
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Six of the best!
6 Peeps at Market Lavington Alf Burgess was nothing if not entrepreneurial. He was quick to see opportunities for additional trade and the arrival of Canadian soldiers in the area was clearly a chanc...
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A Burgess Photo
This is one of those photos where we’d love to identify the person photographed. This is CDV sizes (carte de visite) and we think it is late 19th century. A rather dapper young man has had his li...
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Linking families in Easterton and Market Lavington
Although Easterton always seems to have had a separate identity from Market Lavington, up until 1874 they were one and the same parish. By 1921, when Robert (known as Robin) Burgess married Elizabeth ...