A Trowbridge Carnival? What has that got to do with Market Lavington? Well in this case, the vehicle in use was Market Lavington based.
Edwin Potter’s Market Lavington to Devizes bus in use at a Trowbridge Carnival
This was Edwin Potter’s bus, which had normally plied between Lavington and Devizes. We wonder if it is use to portray transport in times past. In fact we don’t know the date of the photo, but it may well have been towards the end of the Edwardian era. By then, Edwin had reduced his service to just three days a week, so the bus would have been available for other uses.
The give-away on this photo is the banner on the roof line of the bus.
The Lavington to Devizes legend can be seen under the added carnival banner
We can’t read the stuck on paper message – the last three words are ‘to the carnival’. But under it we can see the beginning of the word Lavington and the end of the word Devizes. This, we know, was Potter’s bus.
Of course, it would be grand to recognise the people. Then we’d know if they were Market Lavington folk or others from the Trowbridge area. Here are some of the folks enlarged. Maybe a reader will know them???
Tags: bus, carnival, horse, Market Lavington, Museum, Trowbridge
Market Lavington Museum 
October 7, 2013 at 9:46 am |
I think it might just say ‘This way to the carnival’ ?
October 8, 2013 at 12:18 pm |
Good thinking!
January 5, 2014 at 11:02 pm |
This photo was taken in the flower show field (Trinity Field) in Trowbridge. The railway is behind the bus. The building to the right is AH&S Bird Coal Merchants. The building is still in the railway car park and is now a pizza shop.