This week in Salisbury history: ‘The Picture House’ became ‘The Odeon’ in 1950 – it’s now the City Hall The Creatures played at Salisbury Arts Centre in 1999. The Creatures were Budgie and Siouxsie from the Banshees. George Herbert died in 1633 The film ‘Spinal Tap’ was released – it …Read the Rest
This week seems to have been a fairly quiet one in Salisbury’s past…. 12th February 1922 – Salisbury War Memorial …Read the Rest
This week in Salisbury’s recent and less recent history: prog-rockers Uriah Heep release a record called ‘Salisbury’ Doctor Who films …Read the Rest
This week in the mists of Salisbury’s past: 27th January 1847 – the first Salisbury Railway station opens at Milford …Read the Rest
This week in Salisbury’s history: the UK was declared free of foot-and-mouth Sir Cecil Beaton was born the Rolling Stones …Read the Rest
This week in Salisbury history…..a lot happened. Salisbury Cathedral was flooded. Bishop Poore died Sam Christer’s ‘Stonehenge Legacy’ was published. …Read the Rest
This week in local history, two Stonehenge trilithons fell (in 1900 and 1797 respectively). The last film was shown at …Read the Rest
Here’s some pictures from this morning’s ‘sunrise’ at Stonehenge. ‘Sunrise’ here is in quotes because we didn’t really see the …Read the Rest
I’m looking forward, as ever, winter solstice at Stonehenge. Although I’m not sure what the weather forecast is, and I’m …Read the Rest
During the course of this week (16th -23 December) in Salisbury’s history a non-conformist meeting was broken up in Castle …Read the Rest
The things that happened this week in Salisbury history were: 11th November – Saint Martins Day 12th November 1976 – …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
Fotherby Crescent on Bishopdown is named after Martin Fortherby, who was Bishop of Salisbury from April 1618 until his death …Read the Rest