Some of the loves of Bill Elisha

We’ll leave May, his wife, out on this occasion. As far as we know Bill and May had a long and happy marriage which lasted from 1929 until Bill died in 1984. We are not even going to talk about fo...

Lavington and District Poultry Show

Time was when many a householder kept poultry who could be fed, to some degree on food waste and thus form a vital part of the cottage economy. And, as well as that, there were commercial poultry keep...

Crossways Poultry Farm

  Recently we looked at a memo from Mr Walton about the Wiltshire Down Poultry Farm. Today we have a strangely similar letter from another Market Lavington Poultry farm, this one at Crossways. ...

Arthur Walton – Poultry Farmer

Much can be discovered from bill heads and letter heads and here is something we only knew about when we were given the opportunity to copy a collection of such bill and letter heads recently. It conc...

On the Third Day of Christmas…

According to the song, my true love sent to me three French hens. We have hens on offer today. We doubt they had much direct connection with France. They were probably English hens, bred and hatched....

Death of George O’Reilly

From the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald – 7th October 1948 Fought in Two Wars Mr George O’Reilly Dies at Market Lavington The death of Mr George Watson O’Reilly, resident of Market Lavington fo...

Lavington and District Poultry Club

First can we thank our readers for the 1571 views this blog received in February. It may be the shortest month, but it now holds the record for the best month for the blog. --000-- And now that poultr...

Fred Phillips

Today we look at Fred Phillips who ran a poultry farm on Spin Hill. Fred was born around 1888. We think he was born in Devizes where his father, William worked in the tobacco business. In 1891 youn...