The Grange – Easterton

The Grange is a hidden building in Easterton. It is along the main street but is hidden behind a high, evergreen hedge. Those chimneys are what you see these days but it wasn’t always so. In time...

Texting language in 1910

We have seen this postcard before on the blog but it certainly warrants another look – just for the sheer size of the crowd at a village event. The card is captioned ‘Lavington Flower Show. The...

A party at Paxtons

Paxtons is an interesting Edwardian built house on the edge of the former jam factory site. It was built in the earliest years of the twentieth century so perhaps this photo show a celebratory get tog...

Tiny seeds of love from Market Lavington

Postcard producers had backed a winner in earlier times. In days of yore the post card was used where, later, people might have used the telephone and these days would use some form of electronic comm...

A pleasing glass jar

We are not absolutely certain what this jar’s original use was. From its style we think it dates from the Edwardian era – roughly the first ten years of the twentieth century. On display, it se...

A much dug landscape

The strip of land alongside the road up Lavington Hill has been much dug in the past. Perhaps a clue as to the reason came in the name of a vanished farm just at the top of the hill. It was called Lim...

Advertise in the Wiltshire Times.

Or Mr and Mrs Thomas Whitchurch This flyer was an attempt to solicit adverts to go into one of the local newspapers – The Wiltshire Times. It isn’t dated, but the list of agents with the avera...

A Postcard from the recreation ground

This card is another recent acquisition at Market Lavington Museum. Market Lavington’s recreation ground used to be the field behind what is now Shires Close. It was clearly used heavily for foot...

Pond Farm again

We looked at Pond Farm back in 2013 and you can click here to see that post. Pond Farm was one of the hill farms up on Salisbury Plain. It was up above Easterton and the area remains in the Easterton...

The Corner of White Street

Recently, visitors to museum, and indeed fetes and elsewhere, have been surprised that Market Lavington had a department store. ‘Where was it?’ they ask and presumably they expect one large build...