A charabanc at Salisbury

Charabancs at Salisbury are a frequent theme. Photographers saw a golden opportunity to turn a profit since photographed passengers were likely to buy a print. We do not always know much about them an...

RAOB outing to Bournemouth

Just over a week ago we published a photo of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos in a charabanc on the edge of the Market Place in Market Lavington. It was captioned with the title given to this ...

Devizes and Wiltshire Advertiser – September 18th 1924

The front page of this paper certainly lives up to its name. It advertises all sorts. But the big advert is for the Lavington and Devizes Motor Services Ltd. The trips out for the coming week are...

Another Charabanc Outing

In some cases it can be hard to identify old charabanc pictures. To most of us fairly uninitiated folks we can’t look at a 1920s bus and say what company it belonged to. And many of the photos were ...

Church choir outing

Let’s start by looking at the back of a postcard for that has the caption. We can see the postcard is battered but we can also read that this is St Mary’s Church choir outing 1923 or 24 And ...

The Guides of 1926

According to the records, the Lavington guides held a camp at Paignton in 1925 and 1926. This must have been an enormous adventure for the young ladies. The journey is more than 100 miles and probably...

A Charabanc trip

This photo is a tad careworn but we have enough information to make it interesting. It dates from about 1930 and shows an all-male charabanc party at a stopover, almost certainly in Salisbury. A go...

A trip out

  There has been some lovely weather this May and thoughts turn to trips out. These days we all go off in our private cars, but back in the 20s – 90 years ago - trips were occasional and prob...

Another Charabanc

Yes, we have many charabanc photos at Market Lavington Museum. This one doesn’t have enough information to let us know the location. Such photos were often taken in Salisbury. We believe this photo ...

Another charabanc in Salisbury

Today we look at another of the many charabanc photos we have at Market Lavington Museum. Fred Sayer had a substantial fleet of vehicles, based in Market Lavington and he ran trips to all sorts of to...