The McKinnon boys

This tiny photo, not in good condition, shows two lads.   Now that’s not too bad for an original image measuring 5.5 by 4 cms. The back has a hand written caption. We’ll amend the spe...

A wedding in 1946

Back in 1946 Laurie Cooper married Renee Baker in Market Lavington. The photographer – at a guess it would have been Mr Burgess but that isn’t definite, lined up the guests for a group photo and h...

RAOB outing to Bournemouth

Just over a week ago we published a photo of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos in a charabanc on the edge of the Market Place in Market Lavington. It was captioned with the title given to this ...

Pages from a Gillman’s Devizes Directory

Our wonderful president keeps his eyes open and he found these pages on sale in a Devizes Market. The seller had suggested the directory dated from the 1890s. We think it dates from the Edwardian era....

Church choir outing

Let’s start by looking at the back of a postcard for that has the caption. We can see the postcard is battered but we can also read that this is St Mary’s Church choir outing 1923 or 24 And ...

Merging Market Lavington and Easterton

The two church parishes of Market Lavington and Easterton have separate identities but in 1962 they were merged into one benefice. This document, published by HMSO, explains. It looks as though th...

Northbrook view – 1910

We love this picture. It just oozes past times when elderly gents had time to stand and stare. As the poet William Henry Davis says: What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and s...

A garden party/fete in 1932

There are times when we rely on the judgement of others at a museum. This postcard has two captions on the back, both in different hands. The large writing which says garden Party & Fete Aug 17...

Mr Cooper washing

Some of the scenes we discover on photos, within living memory for the oldest folks, seem almost unbelievable now. Mains water came to Market Lavington as recently as 1936. Prior to that (and afterwa...

George Meech

George Meech was born on Feb 26th 1846 in the area of Stoke Abbot in West Dorset. In 1851 young George was living with his parents at Stoke Abbot. His father, Samuel was a dairyman and his mother was...