Granny Cooper

Florence Cooper was known by a wide family as Granny Cooper – even to people for whom she was not, strictly, the grandmother. Our photo shows her near her home which was one of the old houses in the...

Wedding of Mary Ethel Cooper and William Blake

We have recently been given copies of three photos of the wedding of William and Ethel (as she was known). The wedding took place in 1920. One of the pictures, with the largest group of guests we have...

A lunch basket

What we look at today is an elegant little basket, designed to carry lunch for one person who may have been working out in the fields. Our basket shows some of the ravages of time, but apart from havi...

Another fine wedding photo

Weddings are well photographed these days and many were in times past. This photo, a particularly lovely one, was recently sent to us by Virginia in Australia. The photo shows a bridegroom who was a r...

A Croze Plane at Market Lavington Museum

We have many tools, associated with all sorts of crafts at Market Lavington Museum. Once upon a time, Market Lavington was a small market town, but even had it been a small village it would have neede...