The Salisbury Museum Volunteer Blog

On Monday 15th April, 1776 The Salisbury and Winchester Chronicle advertised an impressive set of volumes, newly published and for sale in Salisbury.

Morris Marples* published a book in 1949  entitled “White Horses & Other Hill Figures”.  I have a copy.  On the first page of the last chapter, chapter eleven, he wrote of “… the serried assortment of military badges and other devices (including, though not cut in the turf, the words DRINK MORE MILK), which adorn the smooth escarpment of Fovant Down in Wilt...

Hello, I am Harry and I chose to write about a Wiltshire Volunteer Rifle Corps emblem. This emblem would have been worn by the 1st Wiltshire Volunteer Rifle Corps.

The corps was set up in 1859 because the govern...

Hello! I’m Connie and have been doing work experience here at the Salisbury Museum this week. One of our tasks was to choose an object that we found interesting. I chose a Victorian print block, showing the image of an old shop in Salisbury. I chose this object because of the intricate detail it displays, as well as its links to Salisbury’s history.

Printing blocks ...

This rather large house in The Close has had a varied history.

It was built in 1770 as a private dwelling. Prior to that there was a much smaller house belonging to the vicar’s choral and was occupied by lay vicars. But by ...