Samuel Moore

Samuel must rank as one of the famous sons of Easterton. He didn’t start the jam making business in the area – credit for that probably goes to Sam Saunders. But Samuel Moore was the one who reall...

Woodbine Cottage

We are happy to receive digital copies of photos, but it can be good to get originals for then we have the ability to scan at a much higher resolution than is often used. So we were delighted to get a...

A Moore family group

This year we have been given quite a few photos with a Samuel Moore/jam factory connection. It is pure coincidence that these have arrived just as the old factory was being demolished. One of the nice...

A Difficulty for Samuel Moore

The jam factory in Easterton has feature fairly often on this blog since the end of August when we were able to copy photos in an album which had belonged to William who was old Samuel’s younger son...

A Jam Factory Lorry

We feel so lucky that Karen got in touch with us. She and her brother, great grandchildren of Samuel Moore, came to see us at Easterton’s rain soaked show on August Bank Holiday. This was one of the...

More Jam Factory Girls

Today we have another photo from Karen, the great granddaughter of Samuel Moore. It shows more workers at the jam factory. On the left we have Jackie Danton. In the middle is Mrs Kittle – or shou...

Jam Factory Workers

Karen recently let us copy a collection of photos in the Easterton area that included many jam factory workers. Karen and her brother visited us at Easterton Country Show. They are great grandchildren...

Easterton Country Show and the Moore family

Bank Holiday Monday was as wet as wet could be. There’s a kind of tradition, which actually most of us there thought wrong, that it always rains on bank holidays. 2014 August bank holiday will surel...

Fruit Pickers

We are so very lucky at Market Lavington Museum. Donations of items and photos come from all sorts of places with modern technology making it easy to email copies of photos to us. This one, however, a...

The Jam Factory at a carnival

Time was when carnival in Easterton and Market Lavington meant raising money for health care. If you are aged 66 or more then you entered this world before the UK had a National Health Service. If you...