Various bit of news relating to Salisbury and Stonehenge…
I came across this interview with Arthur Pendragon – The Raving Outlaw Biker-Druids and Their 1575-Year-Old King | VICE
Michael Jagessar, moderator of the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church, visited Salisbury at the end of September. There’s a detailed account of his visit here – “A Long View” – a Dissenting Heritage, Salisbury URC | General Assembly Moderators’ Blog
If you were thinking of visiting Stourhead to see the autumn colours, the National Trust have a ‘leaf line’ with recorded updates on how the leaves are looking – Ring in seasonal change with “leaf line” ‹ National Trust’s South West Blog
Whites midfielder Chris McPhee is quoted on the BBC website complaining about underhand tactis in Blue Square Bet South – BBC Sport – Salisbury City’s Chris McPhee shocked by ‘dirty’ league
More happily, Saturday the 13th of October is ‘Non-League Day’. Salisbury FC are celebrating by giving everyone a free Mars bar – Salisbury City Football Club » Non League Day at Salisbury City FC
There’s a brief interview with Gary Reeve of Reeve the Baker at: South West Wiltshire Our Community Matters. I liked his last comment “Each day you start with raw materials and at the end of it you have created something beautiful.”
Stonehenge is featured in The Guardian’s interactive ‘Story of British art’ – The story of British art – interactive | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
There’s an article about Vespasian’s Camp is this months issue of Current Archaeology. There’s a scan of the front page on the Eternal Idol website.
The Telegraph has a review this week of a local-ish hotel – the Howards House Hotel in Teffont Evias – Howard’s House Hotel, Teffont Evias, Wiltshire: review – Telegraph
I finished reading Cornelia Funke’s Salisbury ghost story ‘Ghost Knight’ last week, and very much enjoyed it. Salisbury Cathedral have created an ‘activity sheet’ based on the book – ghostknightactivitytrail-3mb.pdf (application/pdf Object)
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