Whither now the Thatcher?

Albert Hiscock was a long term Market Lavington thatcher. We have read about him a couple of times on this blog. (Click here and here). Albert and his wife lived at Hillside at the bottom of Lavington...

An old Malthouse

Beer is made, in part, from malt. Malt is barley which has been allowed to germinate and sprout for just the right amount of time. Traditionally barley was first steeped in water, maybe for a couple ...

Mary Greening Embroidery

Mary Greening lived in Market Lavington for almost fifty years. She arrived in 1962, when her husband, Harry, became the first headmaster of the new Lavington School – which is celebrating its Golde...

Gye’s Yard in 1950

Today we feature a photograph which is redolent with olde worlde charm. Yet it was taken within the living memory of many people alive and kicking today. It shows a part of Gye’s Yard and it was tak...

A Handkerchief Case

This delightful piece of needlework is rather like an envelope in style. The decorated front flap lifts to reveal a pouch behind. The item is just under 20cm square and is made of cotton with the b...

Honeychurch Doll’s House

We are delighted to have a Honeychurch doll’s house at Market Lavington Museum. These houses were made in Market Lavington, achieving a very high reputation for quality and they sold all over the wo...

The Wheelwright at work – fitting a tyre.

We have seen Charlie Burnett before on these pages. He was born in Easterton and we know that in 1911 he was a young carpenter in the village. Later, he started to work for the Gye business in market ...

A knitted bedspread

We may be inclined to think that knitting big bedspreads was something done in Victorian days by ladies whose only permitted job was to look after their man. But today we feature a bedspread knitted i...

The Gye’s lathe

This is unusual. Normally this blog is about items in the Market Lavington Museum collection. Today we are looking at an item which is at the Museum of English Rural Life at Reading. But the object â€...

A Mullings Basket

Market Lavington Museum has several baskets made by the Mullings family. There were four generations of Mullings making baskets in the area, starting with  George who was working in Easterton in 1851...