Grove Farm and Meadow Cottage

It ought to be able to date this photo with a degree of accuracy but actually our recent records are not as good as they could be. The photo was taken from the former recreation ground behind Chantry ...

Wessex Archaeology at Work

Back in 1990 a Saxon burial site was discovered on the Grove Farm estate. Building work was temporarily halted so that Wessex Archaeology could investigate. The dig uncovered people who lived in...

No Grove Farm! No Garage!

This photograph dates from 1999. What changes the new century brought! We are looking across the area where the buildings of Grove Farm had stood. The two houses we see are on the south side of the...

Grove Farm Plans

This plan has recently turned up at Market Lavington Museum. We do not know its origins, but it looks, perhaps, to have been part of some kind of school project display, produced by an adult. The plan...

Grove Farm , 1972 – Community Hall, 2014

Many older people will be horrified when it is pointed out to them that 1972 was more than forty years ago. Let’s face it, it feels like yesterday. But roughly half of our population were not alive ...

Before the Grove Farm Estate

Many people realised that the building of the Grove Farm estate was a big change for the village of Market Lavington. This was a big development of new housing. Quite a few folks were out with cameras...

West from the church in 1972

This is a very unassuming image yet it was taken with foresight or maybe foreknowledge of the future. It is a view from the churchyard in Market Lavington, looking in a westerly direction and taken in...

The day before they felled the limes

Our dateline today is 1987. Grove farm estate is under construction and a new road, Grove Road, needs driving through it. A line of lime trees is more or less on its route and they have to go. A quick...

A view from the church tower in 1990

Views from on high are always interesting. In Market Lavington to get the best vantage point you have to get to the top of the church tower. That’s something photographers have done for well over 10...

A view from Northbrook

Now here’s a confession. Our curator actually took this photo and, being a black and white image, he processed it himself. But he never captioned it and now he has no idea just when the photo was ta...