Not a very news-y selection of Salisbury links this week.
New Gargoyle at Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral stonemasons Matt Barton is going to be carving a new gargoyle for the Chapter House. An old one is ‘no longer fit for service’.
Salisbury School of Nursing 1980-1983 Reunion
There is going to be a reunion of student nurses of the early 1980s.
Salisbury Cathedral in Literature
Salisbury Cathedral features twice in the Guardians list of ‘Cathedrals in Literature’ – once for Hardy and once for Golding.
The Guardian piece has a lovely photo of ‘the Big Church’
Springtime Day at Ancient Technology Centre
This is a day of traditional activities, including ploughing, seed sowing, building walls, making Suffolk hurdles and nets and building a hayrick, at the Ancient Technology Centre at Cranborne on Saturday March 10th
Salisbury Country Way
A 60 mile route around Salisbury:
Salisbury writer Mandy Baggot video
Local writer and twitterer Mandy Baggot has a new video here:
Wiltshire Libraries e-books service
There are 1500-odd books on in the library’s ebooks service. You can download with your library card number and a PIN number.
The e-book self destructs when it reaches its due date.
Phil Harding opens the new Old Sarum Primary School
I don’t think I posted this before. You can buy Phil Harding Pop-Art style T-shirt and mugs:
Durrington Archaelogy Lecture
The Seven Year Itch at Salisbury Playhouse
I’m particularly looking forward to the ‘Seven Year Itch’. There a blog post from rehearsals here
More local websites
I maintaining a list local websites in and around Salisbury, and I’ve found some new ones to go on it:
Salisbury Big Business Event
Salisbury Council is running a ‘Big Business’ event from 23 – 25 April 2012
No more council funds for Wiltshire Heritage Museum
Tisbury gets nearly £1m from housing developer
The Salisbury Vision for The Friary
Breamore House and Countryside Museum
Breamore Houses series of events starts on the 9th April with a Specialist Plant Sale. The full list of events is here:
Previous Salisbury News
- South Wiltshire Core Strategy Development Plan
- Salisbury News: Arundells, Fairtrade, Whites DVD, TUC Book and Amnesty Garden
- Salisbury News: Eco-park grant, Easter, Tubbs, Walk for Wards and Arundells
- Salisbury News: Plain English, Salisbury ‘Oyster’, Ted Heath and Lost Railways of Wiltshire
- Salisbury, England News: Museum grant, Race for Life, Coward at the Playhouse and Desert Island Salisbury
- Salisbury, UK News: Medieval tents, Magna Carta, Shine 4 Wiltshire and Songs of Praise
- Salisbury News: Switchover, Civic Awards, the Moon and ‘Spoons
- Salisbury news: big beasts, Blades, and the art of Cranborne Chase
- Sheffield United vs. Salisbury City
- Salisbury, Wiltshire News: Falcons, bustards, salmon, sewers and the Druids Lodge Confederacy
- Salisbury News: Insulation, TV, Art in Wiltshire and the Jubilee
- Salisbury, UK news: Giant-killing, Hardy’s Wessex, Dads Army
- Salisbury news: Civic Society, the Boy Bishop and more on Stonehenge
- Stonehenge news: cursus pits, floodlights, and the Solstice procession
- Salisbury, England News: parking, panto, Mayors Prize Draw
- Dorothy L Sayers in Salisbury
- Whats on in Salisbury