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Roadmakers and menders – part two
In Joy Spencer’s Highways and Byways section of her Easterton files, she reminds us of the obligation of local people to maintain the roads in their parish. This system was set up with the Highways...
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A white cotton nightdress
On the settle at Market Lavington Museum, we are putting together a bedtime display for our 2025 season. We have featured a few of these items recently. See A layered nightdress and A very short...
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Easter Day
This museum blog entry is being published on 20th April, Easter Day in 2025. We all know that, in the UK, Christmas Day is always on 25th December, but Easter Day is a moveable feast. This is because...
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Easterton street lighting – 1897 – 1946
Once again, we are very grateful to Joy Spencer for recording information about aspects of the history of Easterton. This time, we will look at her typed script about street lighting, which we find in...
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A lost ring
We have previously featured A half penny and A half groat found locally by members of Yeovil Metal Detecting Club and given to the museum with the consent of the field owner. We will now look at...
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An old buckle
We are aware that buckles have been in use over many centuries, as they often turn up in metal detectorists’ finds. Do look back at A collection of Medieval buckles, given to the museum by a local...
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Read all about it
Whilst we are very fond of the local history attached to our 1846 museum building, built as a school master’s house, we are rather cramped for space. We would love to have a reading room, so that we...
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Sydney Cooper
In our previous blog entry, we explained that there are many books stored on the workbox in the upstairs living room in Market Lavington Museum. These cover a wide range of topics of local interest....
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A 17th century shoe buckle
We recently featured An old buckle on our blog. Dating from the 13th century, it could be considered as one of A collection of Medieval buckles. We will now look at a much more modern buckle. It was...
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James Matthews
We have previously written about this man and his wife – James and Mary Ann Matthews. They were both born in Market Lavington, but lived in London, where James was in the police. Here we see a...
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