Tractors: Market Lavington leads the way.

Today we are looking at an article published in the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald on April 19th 1973. But it is about an event which took place in 1916 – the first use of a tractor in South West Engl...

Work at Homestead Farm in the 1950s

Homestead Farm was just beyond where St Barnabas School now stands up Drove Lane which was once called Cemetery Lane because there is a cemetery just below the school. It was never a big farm but in ...

Four more tractors

Yesterday we saw four tractors sold by Wordley’s, the agricultural engineers in Market Lavington way back in 1951. Today we bring the story forward almost thirty years and find that the Wiltshire A...

Modern harvesting in the 1930s

The harvesting of corn crops has changed out of all recognition in the space of a couple of generations. Our curator remembers, in the 1950s, rushing to see combine harvesters at work for mostly the w...

The Market Place – Then and Now

The Market Place is probably the most entirely changed part of the centre of Market Lavington. Back in the 1950s it was a rather derelict area. Men who are now in their 60s or 70s recall playing in th...