Church organ repairs

St Mary's Church in Market Lavington has an organ, which needs maintenance and repair from time to time. At the museum, we have a publicity leaflet explaining what needed doing towards the end of th...

Home made alcoholic drinks

Lucretia E Gye’s recipe book contains several sets of instructions for making alcoholic beverages. These would have been seasonal recipes for use when various fruits were available. So we can fin...

Knitted knickers

We have already discovered that Lucretia E Gye’s recipe book, dating from the 1920s and beyond, contained both handwritten food recipes and knitting instructions. On the K pages, we find the patte...

More from Ethel Gye’s recipe book

In Ethel Gye's recipes, we noted that her Christmas cake recipe came from 'The People'. Perchance, we have in Market Lavington Museum An enamel sign advertising this very publication. However, we wi...

When a death occurred

We are most grateful to Sybil Perry for handwriting out a large file of Sybil Perry’s Memories for Market Lavington Museum. These are mostly about her childhood in the village in the 1920s and 1930...

Ethel Gye’s recipes

In our previous blog entry we met Ethel Gye and her recipe book. Our records suggest this dates from the early 1920s, but it must have been added to over the years as 'Mum's Cake' recipe is dated 194...

Lucretia E Gye’s recipe book

At Market Lavington Museum we have many recipe books, which have been used in the village over the years. Some are out on display whilst others, more fragile, are used for reference from time to tim...

The Robber Baron of Bedford Castle

We have already met William Moore, first rate scholar, who was A Resident of New Farm on Salisbury Plain. We know that, as a 15 year old, he attended Market Lavington Evening School and was awarded...

Ladies football

We tend to think of ladies playing football to be a modern phenomenon, but a couple of photos in Market Lavington Museum show that not to be the case. This undated picture shows the teams for a mat...

Knapp Farm in 1915

By the latter part of the 20th century, Knapp House had been divided into two dwellings, one on the ground floor and the other above. It was no longer a farm, just a pair of private residences. Havi...