Our museum at Market Lavington is now officially closed for the winter. We’ll be dismantling 2014 displays and preparing those for 2015. But if you are coming to the area and want to visit then please contact us and we’ll try to arrange it but the visit will be on an ‘as you find it’ basis.
And frequent visits with careful looking always seem to reveal something different. Take this brick, for example, which has been on display in our trades room for years, without really being noticed although it is a lovely item.
Market Lavington made plinth brick from the 1860s
What a great item and here’s an end view to make the cross section clear.
How do you make a brick with a hollow section?
This brick dates from the building of Market Lavington Manor in the 1860s. The brick was made by Edward Box’s company – the brickworks in Market Lavington and has the Box name several times on the underside.
The brick was made by Edward Box’s company
We wonder if there is a brick expert out there who could explain how a brick like this is actually made.
Market Lavington Museum 
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