Grove Farm, the church and village

Here we have a period postcard of Market Lavington. We date this by TV aerial to about 1960. All of the TV masts we see are of the old 405 lines type. This is a view of the village from the lower s...

An undated school photo.

We are fairly sure this is the 1960s but we have very limited information on this Market Lavington School photo. Mrs Elisha is at the back – right end. She retired in 1968. The only captions wit...

The Fire Brigade

Today we have another article from an issue of Lavington Forum – the Market Lavington School magazine issued for a while in the late 1940s. This one is about the fire brigade which used to keep an a...

A builder’s day book

Amongst items given to the museum from the estate of Tom Gye we have a number of the day books used in the building trade. In these books each customer was recorded and indexed and the labour and mate...

Lavington Forum

Cherry Orchard Poultry Farm We were given one copy of Lavington Forum some time ago and recently we have been given a couple more. They miss out on one crucial detail – the date of publication but ...

An infant class

Here we have another photo with no information except that the original was a Kodachrome slide. It’s a school photo with a class of infants. There’s no doubt about the teacher. This is Mrs Elis...

Thimbles

We have featured ‘lost and found’ thimbles before on this blog but today’s collection were never lost so didn’t have to be found. They were essential items at Market Lavington School. This ...

A School photo

School photos usually arouse interest – particularly those recent enough for those photographed to be recognised as friends, relatives or even, perhaps the person looking at this blog. Here is such...

The class of 1905

School photos and class photos have always been popular. It was always a good way of remembering classmates and now, with photos of this age, it just may be possible to identify some of the youngsters...

Lavington Area Schools’ Sports

David Bratchell recently visited the museum. He lived in Market Lavington as a youngster and attended the local school until he reached leaving age in 1957. The family moved away in 1959. His ‘Grann...