History

The festival attracts visitors from all over the region (credit: Ash Mills)

Festival returns to Chalke Valley

With so much uncertainty in the world, history has never been more relevant. The Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival,…

Rihanna Harris and Chris Burdon welcome visitors to Stonehenge for special early morning and late evening visits

Stonehenge special access hosts shortlisted for tourism award

A fantastic team of English Heritage staff who welcome people to Stonehenge early every morning and late into the…

Stonemasons Dave Vanstone (l) and Matt Barton (r) with Clerk of Works Gary Price (centre) All photos credit: Finnbarr Webster

Memorial to the Secret Spitfire sets city’s wartime history in stone

Eighty-three years have passed since the Luftwaffe bombed the Spitfire factories in Southampton and drove production underground. [caption id=”attachment_1724″ align=”alignnone”…

Radio Odstock staff and helpers

Hospital radio celebrates 70 years of entertaining patients and staff

By Faith Eckersall. Most people remember 1953 for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the first ascent of Everest. But,…

New Canal History

Buses running on Dews Road, we have the evidence

from The Salisbury Museum Blog, by volunteer Alan Clarke. What fun it is looking through old photographs and finding the…

Construction crew at Salisbury District Hospital; moving vans at new site

Odstock anniversary marks 30 years since infirmary closed its doors

Salisbury District Hospital is celebrating a number of anniversaries over the next 12 months. The first is the 30th anniversary…

The scene captured in a photo from 1853

Plague, political plots and religious emancipation from the archives

Gems from The Salisbury Museum blog compiled by museum volunteer Jane Hanbidge. Religious intolerance In the St Edmund’s Churchwardens’ Accounts for…

Arthur Millie with his book, about the life of the Playhouse, pictured in the 1950s

Documenting the secret history of Salisbury’s much-loved Playhouse

HOW did a secret plan to convert a chapel into a cinema lead to the founding of the Salisbury…

Salisbury Museum History

Finding the stories behind the image

By Salisbury Museum Volunteer, Alan Clarke (all photos courtesy of The Salisbury Museum). THE Salisbury Museum image archive contains nearly…

Salisbury Museum Snow Day

Do you remember when it used to snow in Salisbury?

By Salisbury Museum Volunteer, Alan Clarke (all photos courtesy of The Salisbury Museum) The Salisbury Museum image archive has a…