A cooking class

Today we look at a photo where we need help. The photo shows girls cooking. We have it recorded that this is ‘girls in a cookery class in 1920/21. Attached to the back of the photo is this capti...

A Trivet

These days most people would have no idea on how to cook on a kitchen range. It was a work of skill getting things to the right temperature with judicious addition of fuel and control of dampers. And ...

A Bottle Jack

This item was used, probably in a well to do home, to assist with roasting a joint in front of a fire. Poorer families, if they ever had a roast joint of meat, used children to keep the joint turning....

The Museum stall at the fete

Answers (1) Well done to all those who took part in our ‘What is it?’ competition at the Market Lavington Village Fete. Particular congratulations to Mr M Morrison, a comparitive newcomer to the v...