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A quick post to celebrate the anniversary of the writer’s birth. Despite having had 200 years notice of the anniversary, I only just thought it might be worth cobbling together a piece on Dickens’ Salisbury connections. Salisbury in Martin Chuzzlewit The most significant thing to point out about Dickens and Salisbury is the . . . → Read More: Dickens and Salisbury 
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 
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 
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 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 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 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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