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Home Sweet Home
The house on the right of the photo was my childhood home. My family lived there until 1991.
Contributed by Ian Norris
Wiltshire memories
Home Sweet Home
The house on the right of the photo was my childhood home. My family lived there until 1991.
A memory of Mere contributed by Ian Norris
Zeals House
I was evacuated to Zeals during the war from London, to I think, Zeals House. I recall the airfield, and I remember a local pub, which I think had a yew tree outside. My folks and military members would drink and dance outside under the tree. I recall a aircraft crashing at the airfield and burning. I don't know if the pilot escaped. That was my first contact with aeroplanes, and my interest in aviation grew from there. I became a pilot, and am still flying in Africa at the age of 68. Would love to hear some history of Zeals and the airfield, and perhaps correspond with someone who remembers the war years .
A memory of Zeals contributed by Peter Benniman
Sixties Longleat
Many fond memories of Longleat over the last 46 years: the freedom we all enjoyed as villagers to roam across the estate - the sixth Marquess was always very generous in this respect. The remains of the American hospital were still much in evidence then; dad would drive the car to one of the old stone ramps so that he could work underneath it! We'd walk across the park from Corsley before the reserve was built, and when it was finished and the lions introduced, we all worried that one might escape, but to our knowledge, they never did! Mum worked part time for the catering company J.G. Boyes who originally set up a cafe marquee near the house; this later ...read more here
A memory of Longleat contributed by Geoff Pridmore
Extracts From Mere & Wiltshire books
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".
The Victorian Church of All Saints in Harnham was built in 1854
and dedicated to the memory of a former Dean of Salisbury Cathedral.
Today, heavy traffic thunders close by on the road in the foreground (the
A3094), but drivers do not see the church because of the screen of trees
which has grown up along the wall in front of it.
An extract from from"Salisbury Pocket Album".