Stonehenge
Following the nerve agent attack almost two months ago, the city of Salisbury has been shortlisted as a potential host of the Armed Forces Day National Event 2019. A bid was submitted by Wiltshire Council and Salisbury City Council as a fitting event to thank the military personnel and emergency services that have supported the […]
On 4 March 2018, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a public bench in Salisbury, poisoned by a nerve agent.
Although this exhibit is now over, on Twitter @terryandrob said: “Now that #HisWorld @PaulKidby has closed its doors for the last time we’ll answer a few of your questions; 1. We couldn’t extend our stay @SalisburyMuseum as a new exhibition is already moving in. 2. No. We won’t be touring. 3. Yes. We have […]
One of the two peregrine chicks that hatched on Salisbury Cathedral Tower last year has been spotted 81 miles (as the crow flies) away from home. The female peregrine, named Aveline by Cathedral staff, was caught on camera in Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve, Old Wolverton near Milton Keynes, by wildlife photographer and blogger Ashley Beolens, […]
Salisbury Cathedral has launched its new Christmas art installation, Star of Bethlehem, created by coding artist Jayson Haebich. The Star, made by projecting light onto a transparent screen, appears as a morphing geometrical shape, moving slowly and gracefully above the Cathedral’s Spire crossing. Viewers can interact with it, changing its shape and colour via an […]
This summer Reflection, a spectacular exhibition of art created using glass, explores the theme of reflection; both as a visual response to the Cathedral’s beautiful medieval building and as a stimulus for meditative reflection. The exhibition, featuring specially made pieces by nine internationally known artists, opens on 1 August and runs until November. Salisbury Cathedral has long […]
After more than 10 years away from the mainline, the world’s most famous locomotive, Flying Scotsman, which returned to action earlier this year, visited Salisbury twice this summer, hauling The Cathedrals Express. The train arrived from London Paddington via Westbury. Departing from Salisbury in the afternoon on Saturday 21 and Saturday 28 May, those lucky enough to […]
The Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival has unveiled a taster of the 2016 Festival (now in its 44th year) with a characteristically diverse cultural programme celebrating the very best of music, theatre, dance, circus, film, visual arts, literature and family events. Continuing a four-year journey inspired by Stonehenge and tracing the cardinal points of the […]
Salisbury Cathedral’s Magna Carta Celebrations reach a floral crescendo with up to 500 flower arrangers and an expected 20,000 visitors creating a grand scale flower festival themed around Magna Carta. Amongst the astounding floral art works visitors will encounter are a series of giant, 6ft x 3ft fantasy flowers and an ambitious central display, which […]
A spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime pageant brought the streets of Salisbury to life with a carnival of colour as Wiltshire celebrated the birth of our nation’s present day liberties 800 years on from the sealing of the Magna Carta. The celebrations took place on the evening of Monday 15 June, eight centuries to the day since King John […]
