Bill Elisha

Back in 2012 we showed one of two sketches drawn of Bill during World War 2. Today we look at the second of them. We can see that bill is the CQMS or Company Quartermaster Sergeant in the Wiltshire...

May and Bill on the run

May is Mrs Elisha, the lady who spent almost 60 years as teacher and supply teacher at Market Lavington School and on into St Barnabas, the new school built when the two village schools of Market Lavi...

Some of the loves of Bill Elisha

We’ll leave May, his wife, out on this occasion. As far as we know Bill and May had a long and happy marriage which lasted from 1929 until Bill died in 1984. We are not even going to talk about fo...

The Elisha Family by their shop

These days people know the name Elisha because a playing field up Drove Lane is named, ‘The Elisha Field’. This honours Bill Elisha who had been a stalwart of the local football team as player and...

Lavington and District Poultry Show

Time was when many a householder kept poultry who could be fed, to some degree on food waste and thus form a vital part of the cottage economy. And, as well as that, there were commercial poultry keep...