I like this plaque – it recalls a time when banks were local rather than national or international institutions. The plaque is on the Lloyds TSB building in the Market Square in Salisbury. It’s to the right of the door.

The Wilts and Dorset was merged into the Lloyds Bank in 19141. The Wilts and Dorset had . . . → Read More: Wilts and Dorset Banking Company]]>

I like this plaque – it recalls a time when banks were local rather than national or international institutions. The plaque is on the Lloyds TSB building in the Market Square in Salisbury. It’s to the right of the door.

The Wilts and Dorset was merged into the Lloyds Bank in 1914¹. The Wilts and Dorset had itself taken over the Salisbury Bank in 1897².

The Salisbury Bank was connected with the Pinckney family who owned Milford Hill House

Footnotes

1. Lloyds TSB – Lloyds Bank
2. The Pinckney Family Tree – Pinckneys in Banking

The picture below shows the Green Man in context. The foliage on the opposite corner of the . . . → Read More: Green Man at Wetherspoons]]> This is the Green Man which appears on the cover of Salisbury Civic Society’s ‘Salisbury in Detail‘ book. It is on the north-facing side of the Kings Arms pub – otherwise known as either ‘Spoonies’ or, formerly, the County Hotel.

The picture below shows the Green Man in context. The foliage on the opposite corner of the window is just foliage – there is no Jack o’ the Green hiding there as far as I can see.

There are seven other Green Men in Salisbury (out of more than 100 across Wiltshire) photographed on the rather wonderful Wiltshire Green Men website.

Incidentally, either there’s another version of the same Green Man at the Kings Arms or the picture was reversed for the cover of the book (which I would highly recommend).

As with the Lloyds TSB ‘green man’, the Barclays man is not as verdant as some versions. Perhaps a pale green man?

This is as good a close . . . → Read More: The Green Man at Barclays]]> This is the last in a series of three bath stone ‘Green Men’. The buildings Barclays, the Kings Arms and Lloyds Bank were all built at around the same time.

As with the Lloyds TSB ‘green man’, the Barclays man is not as verdant as some versions. Perhaps a pale green man?

This is as good a close up as I could take:

This shows the green man in his context:

There are more Salisbury green men at the wonderful Wiltshire Green Men Image Bank

I like the view of the Cathedral from Castle Street, although I’ve never managed to get photograph that captures it.

I lived away from Salisbury for nearly 20 years and when I came back, it was a surprise that the spire has the windows that you can just about make out in this photo. You can . . . → Read More: The Cathedral from Castle Street]]>

I like the view of the Cathedral from Castle Street, although I’ve never managed to get photograph that captures it.

I lived away from Salisbury for nearly 20 years and when I came back, it was a surprise that the spire has the windows that you can just about make out in this photo. You can only see the windows from certain angles – I’m not sure whether I hadn’t noticed them before, or whether I’d just forgotten.

Anyway, it’s a nice little sculpture above the door of Lloyds TSB in Blue Boar Row.

A couple of good . . . → Read More: Green Man over the door of Lloyds TSB]]>
To celebrate the first day of spring, I think this is a representation of the Green Man. I could be wrong here – he’s not quite as verdant and covered in plant life as other Green Men.

Anyway, it’s a nice little sculpture above the door of Lloyds TSB in Blue Boar Row.

A couple of good websites on the Green Man:

• The Green Man – Mike Harding’s website
• Wiltshire Green Men – a wonderful collection of 102 photos of Green Men in Wiltshire

Update: I had a really interesting exchange of emails with Katy, one of the people who runs the Wiltshire Green Men website on whether or not the Lloyds TSB man is atually a ‘Green Man’. Katy says that:

I think we could say the carving you have photographed is a kind of green man, a woodland king of some kind…The website update contains a page ‘Who is the green man?’ with my attempt to classify the different variants, and I think we could put him into the ‘non-standard form’ group along with foliate skulls, double-heads with saplings growing from them, and – ahem – tombstones to Mr Greenman. What has become clear since Chris and I began this project many moons ago is that the form is very variable, in Wiltshire at least, and while some scholars no doubt would want to be very strict and confine the group solely to foliate heads and foliage-spewers, we tend to be more easy-going and include those with foliate eyebrows, peepers, green animals, accidentals, and the other non-standard forms.

Katy also noticed something which I hadn’t – the cover of the book below, Salisbury in Detail, is actually a Green Man. I’ve had the book for some time, and a photo appeared as an advert on the sidebar of the website for a few months, but I’d totally overlooked it.

This Green Man is on the Wetherspoon’s pub in Bridge Street. I’ll post a photo of him in context shortly.

This shows the head as part of it’s pair supporting . . . → Read More: Antique shop in Castle Street]]> This head is one of a pair supporting what I think is called an ‘oriel window’ above the Castle Galleries antique shop in Castle Street.

This shows the head as part of it’s pair supporting the window:

I quite like this view of the back of Saint Paul’s Church, taken from the Spire View roundabout. It’s not a great photo, but it’s an interesting view.

I wrote about how Saint Paul’s church was built to replace the older Saint Clement’s church, which gives “Churchfields” its name on my post on St . . . → Read More: Saint Paul’s Church from behind]]>

I quite like this view of the back of Saint Paul’s Church, taken from the Spire View roundabout. It’s not a great photo, but it’s an interesting view.

I wrote about how Saint Paul’s church was built to replace the older Saint Clement’s church, which gives “Churchfields” its name on my post on St Clements Way

There have been a series of posters at the railway stations which have been a bit odd, especially one promoting the new ticket machines saying something like ‘Dont fear machines – except for the terminator’. Anyhow, I quite like this one, advertising daytrips to Stonehenge.

If you came to this page looking for how to get to . . . → Read More: Stonehenge – How did they get there?]]>

There have been a series of posters at the railway stations which have been a bit odd, especially one promoting the new ticket machines saying something like ‘Dont fear machines – except for the terminator’. Anyhow, I quite like this one, advertising daytrips to Stonehenge.

If you came to this page looking for how to get to Stonehenge then it might be worth looking at my page on getting from Salisbury to Stonehenge

I like this purple dragon from the Saint George stained glass window in St Thomas’ Church. He looks as if he’s just biding his time to me, believing that he’s going to get the last laugh in . . . → Read More: Dragon from Saint Thomas’ Church]]>

I like this purple dragon from the Saint George stained glass window in St Thomas’ Church. He looks as if he’s just biding his time to me, believing that he’s going to get the last laugh in the end.