A bell pull direction changer

We are, once again, back to that favourite of Market Lavington Museum – a found under the floorboards item. Like several other items this was found at 21 Church Street which was once the HQ of the H...

Unknown but lovely

These two photos are of a couple of unknown people – one of them with an unknown dog. Here’s the lad. The lad has been lifted off his background by shading out the edge. We have no idea who he is...

One that got away

Here we have a news item which has been sellotaped into an album (and thus damaged). This news item dates from 28th February 1952. The person who kept it hasn’t named the paper. It shows a wonder...

John Baker

John Baker was a fine, upstanding Victorian gentleman living in Market Lavington. His day job was as a dealer and worker in ‘light’ metals and enamelled goods. Sometimes such workers were called ...

Seed Pans

A couple of years ago we featured one seed pan on this blog. Today we look at three of them. They are all Victorian and all were made at the Lavington Brick, Tile and Pottery works on Broadway. They d...

Long and Loyal Service

Back in Victorian times, the Loyal Volunteers were ready to serve their country as armed soldiers if need arose. They practised regularly and certainly had skills as marksmen. We have seen a couple of...

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 permanent display

  Our kitchen range is a part of the structure of the museum.  As such it forms a permanent display. We believe it was installed when the cottage was built in the 1840s – and there it still i...

A new item of clothing at the museum

We have quite an extensive collection of clothing and accessories at the museum but it is quite rare for new items of historic clothing to be given to us. This blog post is, in part,  an appeal for ...

The Candle Lantern

These days we are 100% used to having light at the flick of a switch. Market Lavington has had mains electricity for long enough that the days before electric light are now before living memory here. ...