An unverified rumour

Just over a month ago we published a sales brochure for a house in Easterton, now known as Willougbys. (click here) The brochure refers to a story that Oliver Cromwell stayed at this house. A single,...

The Old Vicarage

Actually this sketch shows what was then the brand new vicarage in 1848. Most of our sketches by Philip Wynell Mayow were drawn in about 1837. This one came from the same sketchbook so we think it is ...

The Nursing Home – Then and Now

Actually, our then photo is not from so very long ago. The Nursing home, in the old Vicarage building, was well established and in 1996 it was expanding. The old Parish Room had been demolished to imp...

Market Lavington Vicarage

Market Lavington had had a number of houses used by the parson. Once there was a parsonage on Parsonage Lane but this was demolished in the nineteenth century and replaced with numbers 6 and 8 on Pars...

Ivydene Discovered

Oh to have records which were perfect in every detail. The photo below is described as one of nine photos dating from 1957-60 of the Market Place and surrounding areas during demolition of old buildin...

Another view from the Racquets Court

When the Racquets Court was shrouded in scaffolding in 1972, the opportunity was taken to shoot some different views over the village and we look at another of those photos today. It can be hard to...

A Market Lavington Wedding in 1900

A few days ago we looked at Wilsons at the Vicarage and in particular the life of Violet Wilson who spent virtually her entire childhood under the guardianship of her uncle and aunt, The Reverend Edwa...

Wilsons at the Vicarage

We have already learned of the Wilson family who lived with the Reverend Frith and his wife at Market Lavington vicarage. Mrs Frith was the Wilson family aunt and she took care of the children followi...

At the Vicarage in the 19th Century

It is so good when things come together and you can start to get a bit more understanding. This story had better begin in 1983 although it concerns the Vicarage in Market Lavington 100 years or so be...