The things that happened this week in Salisbury history were: 11th November – Saint Martins Day 12th November 1976 – ‘Green monkey disease’ quarantine 13th November 1981 – Wasted Youth play Salisbury Tech 14th November 1676 – birth date of Bishop Hoadly 15th November 1940 – the bombing of Coventry …Read the Rest
I’ve written this post in support of Blog Action Day which this year is focussing on Human Rights[1]. The struggle …Read the Rest
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Fotherby Crescent on Bishopdown is named after Martin Fortherby, who was Bishop of Salisbury from April 1618 until his death …Read the Rest
This looks really interesting – an evening of old film of daily life in Salisbury and South Wiltshire next Friday …Read the Rest
Fowler’s Hill is on the eastern edge of Salisbury It runs more or less parallel with Milford Hill, from Tollgate …Read the Rest
Summer Solstice is celebrated at Stonehenge this year on Friday the 21st June. The sun is due to rise at …Read the Rest
As far as I’m aware there isn’t a road called ‘Fugglestone’ in the Salisbury area. There’s not a ‘Fugglestone Close’ …Read the Rest
Some very shoddy mobile phone photos from yesterday’s match. I didn’t think to take a ‘proper’ camera, so these are …Read the Rest
As far as I’m aware Fulford Place no longer exists. It was a small ‘court’ off of Castle Street. Salisbury’s …Read the Rest
I’ve set up an experimental twitter account to accompany this website called @sarum_matt. The ‘sarum_matt’ account tweets notable or interesting[1] …Read the Rest
I’ve finished posting about the origins of all the Salisbury road names beginning with ‘G’ Gainsborough Close, Salisbury – probably …Read the Rest
This post is about a sad letter that I found from the writer Rudyard Kipling[1] to Lady Edith Hulse, of …Read the Rest