The Elisha Family by their shop

These days people know the name Elisha because a playing field up Drove Lane is named, ‘The Elisha Field’. This honours Bill Elisha who had been a stalwart of the local football team as player and...

Easterton Shop in the 1930s

This photo was sent to us by a descendant of the man in the photo. She writes, ‘Easterton Post Office and stores with my father, as a young man, standing outside the shop door. Sometime in 1930â€...

When Mr Walton’s Empire spread

Mr Walton was once well known in Market Lavington for having a department store which spread from High Street, round the corner onto White Street, across to the other side of that road and round the c...

The photographer’s shop

There was a photographer’s shop in Market Lavington for about 100 years. Originally Alf Burgess and then his sons had premises almost next to the co-op. When Peter and Bessie Francis set up their bu...

Knitters Paradise

All sorts of shops have been tried in Market Lavington. Sadly, many didn’t survive and this is one of them. This was a shop for all things knitting whether it was wool, needles, patterns or ready-ma...

Advertise in the Wiltshire Times.

Or Mr and Mrs Thomas Whitchurch This flyer was an attempt to solicit adverts to go into one of the local newspapers – The Wiltshire Times. It isn’t dated, but the list of agents with the avera...

A bill from Mr Pomroy

Charles Pomroy was a draper who operated from premises on High Street pretty well on the corner of the Market Place where the chemist’s shop now stands. He had been born in Market Lavington in 1829 ...

Butcher’s vans

Time was when shopkeepers delivered the goods. Yes, they do it again now as though it is some wonderful new idea but back in the day before nearly everybody had a car it was entirely the norm for the ...

Mr Dempsey’s shop

Mr Dempsey had a shop on Church Street into the 1980s – and here it is. Let’s position this shop, for it is no longer there as a shop. Actually, it is quite hard to define its place. People who...

The Newsagent

Sadly, our village newsagent shut up shop for the final time recently. The Davis family had been selling papers and magazines in the village for forty or more years. For much of that time Keith ran th...