A brickyard hut

There were all sorts of buildings at the brick works, down on Broadway. Today we look at one of them which, when the photo was taken, began to look like a bit of a tumbledown hut. But it was a hut wit...

On display at Stonehenge

Market Lavington Museum has now closed for the winter (except by arrangement with the curator, of course) but we are delighted that some of our artefacts are now on display at the Stonehenge Visitor C...

A Market Lavington Photographer at Stonehenge

We’ve said before, on these pages, that Market Lavington was lucky to have a resident photographer from the 1880s and onwards. This was, Mr Alf Burgess, and later his sons took over the business. Af...

Stonehenge in the 1880s

No, Stonehenge is not in the parish of Market Lavington, but it is easily reached, and even in the 1880s local families went there for a day out. A picture we have at Market Lavington Museum shows mem...