Harnham Water Meadows
Twice a year, in January and February, the public are invited to watch the Drowning of the Water Meadows – organised by Harnham Water Meadows Trust. The whole event lasts around 1hr 15min. It’s a centuries old technique which brings water and nutrients to the land which speeds up the growth of grass which is […]
The Coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort was screened at Salisbury Cathedral, followed by festivities.
Watch the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort live on the big screen at Salisbury Cathedral and party with Swing Unlimited Big Band afterwards. Salisbury Cathedral is screening the Coronation and the Coronation Procession live from 09.30 on Saturday 6 May. This most historic of Anglican services, which dates back to […]
Flo the Falcon, one of the peregrine chicks that fledged from the Cathedral Tower in 2021, has been spotted 90 miles away from home as the crow flies, in Hertford, Hertfordshire. British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) ringer, Nigel Jones contacted the Cathedral peregrine team to let them know that Flo (named for Florence Nightingale to […]
Salisbury-based national charity Horatio’s Garden, which creates and nurtures beautiful, accessible gardens in NHS spinal injury centres, will create its first Main Avenue garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023. Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg of award-winning landscape designers Harris Bugg Studio will design the garden, which is sponsored by Project Giving Back. The vision […]
The Vanity of Small Differences, an exhibition of six huge tapestries by the celebrated contemporary artist Grayson Perry, is now open at Salisbury Cathedral. Each of the 2m x 4m tapestries, inspired by William Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress, charts a stage in the ‘class journey’ made by young Tim Rakewell (a wry reference to Tom […]
In pictures – filming of Great Expectations in Salisbury
A new fashion gallery was opened at Salisbury Museum on 7 August 2021 by Dame Zandra Rhodes. Look Again tells the story of the fabrics, the dyes and threads and the wear and tear. It’s the result of a project to look again at the museum’s collection of over 3,500 fashion items.
Gallery – photos of Festival of Archaeology 2021 at Salisbury Museum
Light of Hope by Peter Walker is now on for the duration of this lockdown
