Wiltshire Agricultural Engineering

We are looking, today, at an aerial photo which shows the area where Rochelle Court now stands. We think this photo dates from the mid-1960s. Let’s try to get our bearings here – for the area w...

Wordley’s Advertise

It is no wonder we feature the agricultural engineers quite frequently. For many years Wordley’s and their successors were big local employers and very much vital to the local economy. Today we loo...

A. S. Wordley and Co

A recent gift to the museum is of some photographs of our local agricultural engineers and their stand at an agricultural show. A. S. Wordley had premises in The Market Place at Market Lavington. Th...

‘Wilts Ag’

People who were in Market Lavington in the 1970s and 80s will certainly remember ‘Wilts Ag’ or, to give it more like its full name, Wiltshire Agricultural Engineering. The company had a substantia...

Remember triangular pens?

At Market Lavington Museum, We remember those slightly uncomfortable three sided ball point pens. They were all the rage some thirty to forty years ago, particularly as company advertising pens. They ...

Four more tractors

Yesterday we saw four tractors sold by Wordley’s, the agricultural engineers in Market Lavington way back in 1951. Today we bring the story forward almost thirty years and find that the Wiltshire A...

Wordley’s tractors

Wordley’s were the forerunners of the Wiltshire Agricultural Engineering Company. They had premises in The Market Place – a site which had formerly been Fred Sayer’s bus depot. This area can be ...

Railway engineering works at Lavington in 1957

Some people think that railway line closures on Sundays and replacement bus services is a modern phenomenon. It probably is more prevalent today than it once was because railway closures in the 1960s ...

Whites of Market Lavington

The market place area of Market Lavington was used for many years by agricultural engineers. Today we feature a photo which dates from the 1890s and it shows White’s Yard. White’s bought the prem...

An old stapler

These days there are items of office equipment which are just about universal. We are all familiar with paper fasteners including the staple. We expect our staples to come in lengths of about 50 with ...