A Merritt float

Here we have another new image given to the museum this month and this is one we particularly like. It shows a carnival float, no doubt in a trade class, entered by Merritt Brothers. We don’t have a...

A wagon kit

John Davis was a coal merchant in Market Lavington at the time when coal was king. If you wanted to keep warm or cook things then the chances are you used coal. Huge quantities were moved around the c...

A Cider Press

We have a wonderful carnival picture today. It is utterly redolent of times past. Here we see carnival floats lining up on Easterton High Street. Of course, the leading float commands interest being ...

West Park Dairy tank wagon

Not all items in a museum are old and here is one that is brand new. Back in the 1930s West Park Dairy, based at West Park Farm in Market Lavington had six milk tanker wagons which ran milk from Wilts...

A High Street for Horses

These days Market Lavington High Street is dedicated to the motor vehicle but as we have seen it wasn’t always so. Back in the 1950s the car or van was there, but not in vast numbers. If we go back ...

Wagon and Horses at Knapp Farm

Today we feature a photo where, perhaps, we need more help than we can give. The photo shows a farm scene at Knapp Farm, which is on White Street, just above Broadwell. The impression one gets is t...

Jacob Bolter Cooper

Jacob Cooper – middle name Bolter – was born on 17th September 1839 and baptised at St Mary’s Market Lavington on 20th October. There is no surviving 1841 census for Market Lavington. In 1851 J...