Bobby McGregor

Bobby was an Easterton evacuee during World War Two and he was a recent visitor to Market Lavington Museum. It isn’t the first time he had returned to the area. In fact he had already had a mention ...

Easterton Evacuees

We were recently given a large number of Easterton Echoes – the newspaper for Easterton but our donor had not been a collector in the early days. However, Easterton Parish Council have loaned us the...

Red Riding Hood – cast photo.

We saw a programme for a wartime production of Red Riding Hood back in May (Click here). Today we look at a cast photograph. Here we have a wonderful example of the route items can take to reach Ma...

An Evacuee Remembers

Here we present extracts from the memories of  Fred, Albert, Tom, Dora and Poppy Emms. They were world war 2 evacuees from London. They spent a little while on a farm near Chippenham, then some time ...

An evacuee’s family seek help

Market Lavington Museum regularly receive (or offer) help tracing family. In this case the family was a temporary one which may not actually have lived in Market Lavington. The evacuee, who came to t...