Tim Gye’s christening

This photo lets us see two of the better known families in Market Lavington. These are the Gye and the Welch families who were joined in holy matrimony when Tom Gye married Peggy Welch in 1940. Wha...

Peggy and Tom

Today we recall two stalwarts of village and museum – Tom and Peggy Gye. This photo needs little in the way of explanation. It is clear we have two young people with hearts beating as one. Tom is...

Betty James

Betty, or Elizabeth, was the wife of a Market Lavington baker, Walter James. This is a good point to remind readers of our Museum Miscellany on 4th October in Market Lavington Community Hall. We alwa...

A dog licence

Time was when you needed a licence for many things. Keeping a dog was one of them, and some might say that would still be a good thing. In fact, if you happen to live in Northern Ireland then you stil...

Peggy Gye remembered

It doesn’t seem possible that it is now more than four years since our museum founder and, for many years the curator, died. But it was back in 2010 that Peggy left us. We, at the museum, do not for...

A long case clock

The old song tells us that,  My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor. Well that wouldn’t be the situation with our long case, for it is in miniatu...

Another advert the Gyes kept

We all should be delighted with the Gyes who managed to hang on to some items which can’t actually have been that useful to them. Take this double page of adverts they had removed from a magazine. ...

Late 19th century cart adverts

At Gye’s the builders they kept everything. When, eventually, the firm ceased trading some things which seem like oddities today came to the museum. These were adverts that had been kept, more than ...