The Church and the Cottage

Today we feature another of the wonderful sketches by Philip Wynell Mayow. This one, like many of them, was drawn in 1837. We are looking at the northwest corner in this image. Our artist was stand...

Northbrook Cottage

A recent gift to the museum is a watercolour painting depicting the former Tudor cottage on Northbrook. The cottage stood close by the bridge which carried the road called Northbrook over the stream o...

From the old rec

Once upon a time, the recreation field in Market Lavington was behind what is now Shires Close. This view is taken from that field. Our caption tells us that this was before the garage was built. B...

Flo Burbidge

Here we present a lovely portrait photo of Flo Burbidge. Flo, as has been mentioned before on this blog, was born in 1908 at our museum building and it was there that she was brought up. As far as ...

Brick workers’ cottages

This is not the best photo in terms of sharpness, but our records of the old cottages which stood near the brickworks on Broadway are limited. It is good to have something which shows these cottages. ...

Hillside

Hillside is a cottage on White Street which was once the home of Mrs Elisha. May Elisha was a former Miss Potter and was the very long term infant teacher at Market Lavington School. Our photo today s...

Ernest and Arthur Oram

This isn’t the first time, and it probably won’t be the last time that Market Lavington’s Jubilee Cottage occupies a slot on the Market Lavington Museum blog. The cottage was built at the time o...

The Tudor Cottage on Northbrook

As Frank Sinatra said, ‘regrets, I’ve had a few’. And it is regrettable that this little cottage failed to survive. Mind you, you won’t think that if you live in the decent modern house that n...

Down Lavington Hill

Today we have a lovely shot down Lavington Hill and on to White Street with St Mary’s Church as a backdrop. We do not have a date for this photo but electricity wires clearly cross the scene and ...

Where cottages once stood

Broadway, Market Lavington was once the home of the Lavington Brick, Tile and Pottery Company. That ceased production around the time of World War II and local cottages, which had once housed workers ...