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A good place to live
My mum & dad along with my brother & me came to live in Fovant in 1952. Mum & dad owned the butchers shop in the village. My brother Brian & me went to the school, we both made lots of friends. It was a good school, the teachers were nice. Every Sunday my dad played the organ at Fovant church. There was lots of things to do in Fovant. We played football in the street, went for bike rides around the other villages. I had lots of pets. I had a lamb called Larry, I used to take him for a walk on a lead. One day the Bishop of Salisbury came to see my dad & because dad was ...read more here
A memory of Fovant contributed by sheila guilfoyle
Years Ago.
My grandparents lived in the old rectory which was a few hundred yards from the Beckford Arms. I spent many happy holidays there with my cousins. We had wonderful Christmases, lots of snow and in the better weather long bike rides. Idyllic days. Shopping in Tisbury, and going to Wardour Castle, also my grandfather liked to go to Scats.
A memory of Fonthill Gifford contributed by Rosemary Davies
Chipperfield's Circus
In fact these are not Lotmore Cottages, which were along the road that leads to the River Wylye, immediately left in the photograph past the front of the Royal Oak pub on the left, about 50 metres down on the right. I know this because I lived in Lotmore as a small boy, in the first of two semi detached cottages. There was a hilly field opposite that led up towards Grovely Wood. Chipperfield's Circus used to rest in this field when not on the road. Sometimes there were elephants there. Old Mr Chipperfield made me a wooden dog on wheels which we called Chipperdog. Lotmore was demolished many years ago and some late 50's council houses now stand on the ...read more here
A memory of Great Wishford contributed by chris rawlence
Granny's home
I have never visited Druid's lodge, but have been brought up with stories of it.
It was for some years the home of my Grandmother. She was the daughter of Thomas lewis the Irish Race horse trainer.
Thomas was installed in Druids Lodge about 1907 by Lord Cunliffe who owned the 1913 Derby winner Aboyeur. Thomas was his trainer.
Granny went to school at the Gadolphin school for girls in salisbury. She was about 16 at this time.
Stephen Donaghue was one of the young jockeys there at the time. According to my granny, she taught him to write his name so as to be able to sign cheques !
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A memory of Druids Lodge contributed by Hilary Coombes
Extracts From Teffont & Wiltshire books
Teffont, 10 miles west of Salisbury,
is the combination of the villages
of Teffont Evias and Teffont
Magna; both have small churches
maintained and still in use by
the whole combined parish of
about 250 villagers. St Edward’s
is in Teffont Magna. It is mostly
late 13th-century, and has Saxon
origins. An Anglo-Saxon cross
shaft with interlacing is probably
9th century. The tiny nave and
chancel have no arch; the plaster
ceiling probably dates to the early
19th century. A bell from the time
of the church’s completion is kept
on a window-sill.
An extract from from"Wiltshire Churches Photographic Memories".
The importance of Salisbury to the military establishment
after the war can be seen in this picture of Fish Row, just
behind the Guildhall. A Pickfords lorry is fighting its way
along the narrow street, possibly heading for the Military
Tailors in the left foreground, or to the Servicemen’s Hostel
next door.
An extract from from"Salisbury Pocket Album".
The Cathedral viewed from the south has been a favourite subject for
artists—including, of course, Constable. This particular view is from the
Old Mill at Harnham, and shows the Mill itself, the river and the water
meadows as well as the Cathedral. Harnham Mill is a very old building,
dating from around 1500. Like the first photograph in this book, the
timeless beauty of this scene has remained unchanged for more than half
a millennium.
An extract from from"Salisbury Pocket Album".
On the Salisbury side of Harnham Bridge, De Vaux Place leads to The
Close—the Harnham Gate is at the far end of the wall. Most of the old
houses here were built in the 18th and 19th centuries using stone from
the remains of the De Vaux College, which was established here by the
Bishop to train clergy as early as 1262—probably the first university
college in the century.
An extract from from"Salisbury Pocket Album".
The bridge was built by the Bishop of Salisbury around 1240
to facilitate trade between the new city and the south: the
Cathedral spire can be seen in the background. Nearly seven
hundred years later, the bridge was still carrying all south-
bound traffic around the city and across the Avon, but a new
bridge was built just downstream in 1931.
An extract from from"Salisbury Pocket Album".