The Salisbury Museum Volunteer Blog

Thanks to Volunteer Alan Crooks who sent this. And indisputable proof that it can be found in the Salisbury Journal!

Rare footage from the BBC of last Somerset and Dorset Railway trains. Click here.

When I lived in a Dorset village just 20 or so miles south of Salisbury , the older residents in the area would talk about ‘The Sooty and Dirty’. It was the nicknam...

One day in the middle distant past, someone at the Museum must have said “What about having a day when we invite little children in, with their parents or carers, and offer them something new to do?”

The right people must have agreed, and Volunteers volunteered, and now there are the very popular Family Discovery Days or ‘Discovery Tuesday’ events.

Mary, o...

68 The Close , Myles Place.

Myles Place

This rather impressive building has been lived in by many interesting people. I am focussing on Sir Arthur Bryant who was there from 1946-1985, a famous historian and writer. His books, ...

A million visitors a year. Where are we?

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