The Kings Arms – 1915

Here we see the High Street at Market Lavington on a postcard that was posted in 1915. The prominent building and sign, on the right, is the Kings Arms. On the right, on the corner of The Market Pla...

St Mary’s Church to Imber

It’s easy to forget now that once upon a time and still within living memory, real people lived in Imber and carried on real and very normal lives. One of our postcards of St Mary’s Church was sen...

High Street East

This photo was one which Don allowed us to copy recently. It shows the far end of High Street in Market Lavington, away from the village centre and looking towards Easterton. We are looking down, p...

A tremendous place

Our tremendous place is Market Lavington Manor House. It was described as such in a postcard sent in 1917. This is another item given to the museum in the run up to Christmas and here is the picture. ...

The Grove in 1937

We have a postcard today which shows the Grove in 1937. As the card says, it is a rural scene and clearly a spring time one with lambs in the field. It is very hard to get a precise fix on just whe...

Tiny seeds of love from Market Lavington

Postcard producers had backed a winner in earlier times. In days of yore the post card was used where, later, people might have used the telephone and these days would use some form of electronic comm...

A Postcard from the recreation ground

This card is another recent acquisition at Market Lavington Museum. Market Lavington’s recreation ground used to be the field behind what is now Shires Close. It was clearly used heavily for foot...

The Co-op in times past

Today we have a postcard which shows a part of the High Street in times past. The card was posted in 1910. If we start on the left we can see what was then and still is the butcher’s shop. The bu...

Six of the best!

6 Peeps at Market Lavington Alf Burgess was nothing if not entrepreneurial. He was quick to see opportunities for additional trade and the arrival of Canadian soldiers in the area was clearly a chanc...

A Hopkins Post Card

Hopkins who was general builders and builders’ merchants in Market Lavington 100 years ago had their own postcards for quick and simple information transfer. Here is one posted on 18th August 1914 ...