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A Million Visitors a Year

A million visitors a year. Where are we?

If it’s Wiltshire, then it must be Stonehenge.


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Salisbury’s Forgotten Heroine: How Florence Nightingale’s Friend Built Our Catholic Community by Graham Brown

Recently we heard from Graham Brown about the Reverend Coope, who, in the 1840s, lived in the King’s House in the Close, now home to The Salisbury Museum.

Graham is ...


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From London, to Upton Lovell

Sheltering from the heat? Go to Footprints of London for a wonderful choice of Virtual (online) talks and ‘walk...


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Isla’s ‘Language of Tiles’

The Language of Tiles: A Tile from Clarendon Palace

My name is Isla, and as part of my work experience placement at The Salisbury Museum I chose to research a tile from Clarendon Palace. I was particularly interested in this object because of its use of the fleur-de-lis (or fleur-de-lys) motif and its connection to Henry III, one of the palace’s res...


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THE SAME BROOM? by Volunteer Alan Clarke

Who rememebers the ancient school broom?

The head replaced every year, the handle every five years and the screw every 20 years, but it’s the same broom! Similarly, the Cathedral Close wall goes back hundreds of years. Here is a photograph of work being carried out on a large section of it. During one of these sessions, stones with carvings on, were turned arou...


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