10 black and white photographs. Market Lavington, Wiltshire. (photograph)

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Identification note: All photographs are annotated on the reverse with details including contents, source and date.

Summary: 10 black and white photographs of Market Lavington, Wiltshire. 1 – photograph of a painting of The High Street, 1830. 2 – phhotograph of a painting of Church Street and the entrance to White Street, 1850. 3 – The High Street, 1960. 4 – The Terrace (Market Place), 1960. 5 – The High Street, c. 1920? featuring a shop which is now the Co-Op store. 6 – The Market Square, 1915. 7 – The High Street, 1865 featuring the Workman’s Hall and The Bell Inn. 8 – Clyffe Hall, c. 1960. 9 – photograph of an 1803 newspaper cutting “Mr H (Hunt) makes of to the continent with the wife of Major V (Vince) of Clyffe Hall. 10 – photograph of an account in the name of Henry Chivers Vince of Clyffe Hall, 1837.

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