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 scrap book of news photos.

Another item recently loaned to the museum to allow us to copy relevant items is a scrapbook of photos, published in local papers. The scrapbook starts in 1950. This cutting comes from 1953 by which t...

Northbrook in the 1970s

Our information on this photo centres on Tom Burden’s cottage and says it was demolished because it was past saving. The cottage referred to is the Tudor one at the left of this photo. Many peopl...

Big Brother watches over the Vanishing Past

An interesting title for an interesting photograph This photo shows a scene on Northbrook in the late 1970s. It was taken by our curator’s brother in law, Bill, on one of his visits to Market Lav...

Supporting Rochelle Court

This is certainly an unusual view of things – a photo which dates from 1993. It shows the building of a retaining wall and improvements to the footpath below Rochelle Court – alongside Northbrook...

A Northbrook View

These days we think of Northbrook as a road to nowhere. It’s a road that goes out of the back of the Market Place, down to the stream also called Northbrook and then up to the sands where it just st...

Reverend Mayow Wynell Mayow – artist?

We have met the Reverend Mayow Wynell Mayow before on this blog but the other day a most unexpected email arrived with some sketches. The sender was requesting information about this Market Lavington...

Thatching The Rest

The Rest is a pretty thatched cottage on Northbrook in Market Lavington. Towards the end of 2014 the house was re-thatched. House owner Dougald Ballardie became a photo journalist recording all he cou...

Northbrook Cottage

A recent gift to the museum is a watercolour painting depicting the former Tudor cottage on Northbrook. The cottage stood close by the bridge which carried the road called Northbrook over the stream o...

A World War Two kit bag

Sometimes the story of where an item comes from can add interest to the item. This recently donated item is a World War two RAF kit bag. This was found under the eaves in a loft. The house was on N...