A Photo Tour of Market Lavington - Year 2000
The Year 2000 was celebrated in Market Lavington, as elsewhere around the world with fireworks. Below, we welcome in the new year with a rocket exploding over Salisbury Plain as the church clock of St Mary's strikes the midnight hour.
But for me, the new year is welcomed in by snowdrops. Of course, this is not the calendar new year, but the year of new growth but this year the first blooms were out in January. This drift of snowdrops was taken in the sunken, sandstone, Windmill Lane on February 20th.
The photo of the Prutour cycle race, elsewhere in these pages must have been about the last photograph of the Green Dragon pub, before the portico was knocked down by traffic. It is good to report that it is now back, albeit in reduced form. This picture was taken on 1st April 2000
And now a picture of 16 High Street. I include this because I was contacted by Richard Matthews of Vancouver, Canada. His great great grandfather, James Matthews lived there, the middle of the terrace. James was a blacksmith as was his son, George.
Peggy Gye's plant sale usually takes place at the beginning of April. It is one of the ever present events that mark the calendar in Market Lavington. I describe Peggy as the village historian and she now uses her gardening skills to raise money to help fund the museum. Here she is, on April 8th, hard at work selling plants from the stall in her front garden.
Midsummer Millennium Celebrations
Perhaps my next photo should have been put with the millennium celebrations. As part of the continuing history of the village it was hoped to get a photo of every person, on their doorstep. Our photographer called on July 17th (a rare lovely evening in this early summer) and is seen filling in the paper work outside our house.
Autumn 2000 saw all kinds of weather. Here's a misty view of the village in October
The year ended, more or less, with snow. Here's the church taken from Northbrook with Salisbury Plain beyond
