By mattypenny, on December 30th, 2011%
As much for my own benefit as anything else, this is a review of what I’ve done with Salisbury and Stonehenge over the last year
Salisburys road names
The core of the website is about trying to work out the meanings of Salisbury’s road names. I still find this fascinating. Over the course of 2011, . . . → Read More: salisburyandstonehenge.net in 2011
By mattypenny, on September 19th, 2011%
John Constable’s ‘Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows’ is a lovely painting. I like it very much, but I’ve always been puzzled by the river that flows left to right.
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows – the Puzzle
The viewpoint of the painting is next to the ‘Long Bridge’, at the western end of what . . . → Read More: Salisbury Cathedral from the Water Meadows – A Puzzle
By mattypenny, on August 20th, 2011%
This is good. My friend Fred Feiber, who was the lead artist on the Milford Bridge mural, has done a pastel drawing of Stonehenge.
Fred is planning to create a series of cards from the drawing. As soon as they’re available I’ll include a link here.
In the meantime, Fred has two wesbsites:
the . . . → Read More: Stonehenge by Fred Fieber
By mattypenny, on March 18th, 2011% I have created a Salisbury and Stonehenge Facebook page for this website at:
Salisbury and Stonehenge on Facebook
I’ve never been a very active personal user of Facebook, but the Facebook page functionality provides a quick way to share and store interesting links. Recently, I’ve posted links about:
the new pavilion at Salisbury . . . → Read More: Salisbury and Stonehenge on Facebook
By mattypenny, on September 26th, 2010% I thought it might be worth occasionally collecting together some of my Twitter updates and re-publishing them here. Some of the stuff might be interesting to readers of the website.
I tweet as salisbury_matt, sometimes about Salisbury and Stonehenge, sometimes about what I’m slowly reading at the time, sometimes about other stuff. Anyhow, these are . . . → Read More: Recent tweets
By mattypenny, on July 27th, 2010% I thought it might be worth occasionally collecting together some of my Twitter updates and re-publishing them here. Some of the stuff might be interesting to readers of this website.
I tweet as salisbury_matt, often about local things. Since this is the first time I’ve copied the tweets onto the website, I’m going to . . . → Read More: Twitter updates
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This is currently my favourite book on Stonehenge. It covers the influence of the Stones on art, architecture and such
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