Crossways

Crossways was a house sited at the crossroads where Drove Lane and Parham Lane met Kings Road up on Lavington Sands. The house was much loved by earlier owners. The Miss Chalmers had a poultry farm h...

Snow at St Mary’s

Photographers who entered the ‘Seasons’ category at Market Lavington show at the start of the month commented on how difficult it was to portray four seasons that looked different this year. Perh...

The White Stuff

Snow has barely fallen in Market Lavington during the winter of 2013/2014. Mind you, it is only March so there is still time. Our curator did manage to capture a flurry of snow on February 13th It...

Bad Winters

Every now and again we get a bad winter. People over 70 may recall that 1947 was particularly bad. Those over 60 will remember the ‘Long Winter’ of 1962/63 whilst those who are young may end up re...

The arrival of Winter

Winter is now on its way. Officially and astronomically, it may be Autumn until December 21st, but most people and meteorologists now seem to regard December as a winter month. We can expect cold, chi...

Hillside

Hillside is a cottage on White Street which was once the home of Mrs Elisha. May Elisha was a former Miss Potter and was the very long term infant teacher at Market Lavington School. Our photo today s...

Broadwell Snow

There is nothing unusual about snow as winter turns into spring. Even so, we felt a bit cheated by quite a lot of poor weather, including snow during March. But take heart. It wasn’t this bad. Ac...

Christmas Openings – 2012

Last year, for the first time, we had a couple of very successful Christmas openings. We are repeating this idea this year. We will be open on: Wednesday 26th December from 2pm to 4pm Saturday 29th De...

Beech Wood in 1960

Now here’s a Market Lavington photo which begs a question. But let’s start with what we know. The scene is Beech Wood, the year is 1960 and the photographer was the then teenaged Johnathan Gye. We...

Market Lavington Snow

Much of Britain has had more snow, this winter, than we have come to expect. Market Lavington may well have got away lightly but there was enough to cause school closures and allow the young (and youn...