We have more information on Wordleys Engineering this week, thanks to Market Lavington Museum curator Rog Frost.

The museum has several photographs of Wordleys and their successors, Wiltshire Agricultural Engineering, which had premises in the Market Place.

The museum’s website http://marketlavingtonmuseum.wordpress.com/ describes the Market Place as “probably the most changed part of the centre of Market Lavington.”

It says the Market Place was a rather derelict area back in the 1950s.

“Men who are now in their 60s or 70s recall playing in the tumbledown buildings around the area,” it says.

“Gang warfare was on the cards as the lads from one part of the village encountered those from another.

“One can imagine older folk saying: ‘Something’s got to be done’.

“What was done completely changed the face of this part of the village.

“It is hard to see this as anything like the same Market Place we have now. In fact huge changes had already been made.

“For a rather nice house had once stood on the edge of Northbrook, facing into the Market Place. Many years ago, that became the bus garage and by the time of this photo, Wordleys, the agricultural engineers had those premises.”

Mr Frost would like to contact Nigel Bown, who gave the Gazette the original photograph of Wordleys. Mr Frost’s email address is curator@marketlavingtonmuseum.org.uk.

If you have any memories to share, contact Diana Deal at ddeal@gazetteandherald.co.uk or write to her at 14 Market Place, Devizes SN10 1HT.