Fisherton Informer

THE FISHERTON INFORMER

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We are in the process of compiling all the main contents of every Fisherton Informer magazine.

MAIN CONTENTS

ISSUE 4 (OCTOBER 2024) – OUT NOW!

Sarum Chronology

Fisherton History Society News

Salisbury History Festival 2024 Review

Historical Personalities – Major C G Bennett

Letters Page

The Camera Obscura At Old Sarum

All Against The Wall Who’s Playing

A Visit To A Convict Lunatic Asylum – Final Part

ISSUE 43 (AUGUST 2024)

Sarum Chronology 

Fisherton History Society 2024

Air Raid Precaution In Salisbury

St. Thomas’ Secondary Modern Boys School ‘Old Boys’ Get-Together

Historical Personalities No 6 – William Price Aylward

The End Of An Era – Salisbury Cycling Club 1885-2024

Lord Nelson And The Mystery Of The Nile Clumps

A Visit To A Convict Lunatic Asylum – Part 2

ISSUE 42 (JUNE 2024)

Sarum Chronology

Raf Old Sarum And The D-Day Involvement

Norman Parker 1926-2024

Historical Personalities No 5 – Howard Lapham

River Of No Return

Alderbury Workhouse And The
Benham Engine – Part 4

A Visit To A Convict Lunatic Asylum – Part 1

ISSUE 41 (APRIL 2024)

Sarum Chronology

Fisherton History Society 2024

James Eric Palmer of 115 Macklin Road

The Red River Group, Amesbury – 1956 to Early1960

Historical Personalities No 3 – Sir James Macklin

Natural or Man-Made  – In Search of the Middle Path

More on the Fisherton Friary

Salisbury History Crossword

The Early History of the Blackmore Museum

The Fisherton Street Improvement Proposal of 1995

ISSUE 40 (FEBRUARY 2024)

Sarum Chronology

Fisherton History Society 2024

Banishing the Myth – Salisbury Cathedral Spire

The Forth of a Series of Articles About Salisbury’s Schools

Fisherton Anger’s New Victorian Pubs and Hotels

Historical Personalities No 3 – Lady Edith Hulse

Quinton’s of Pennyfarthing Street

ISSUE 39 (DECEMBER 2023)

Sarum Chronology

A Look Back at the Year That Was – 2023

Natural or Man-Made – The Penbroke Road Causeway

Historical Personalities No 2 – Henry Fawcett

St. Thomas’ Old Boys Get-together

A Dopey Little Story

Alderburt Workhouse and the Benham Engine Part 3

Rosemay Squires MBE Obituary

The Pheasant Inn

Beating the Bounds

ISSUE 38 (OCTOBER 2023)

Sarum Chronology

The Salisbury History Festival 2023

James Wyatt – Destroyer or Visionary

St. Thomas’ Old Boys Get-together

Woodrow and Co – A Business Still Fondly Remembered

Gun End of Base – A Tale of Incredible 18^th Century Surveying

Historical Personalities No 1 – Seth Ward

Frank Ridd – The Bricklayer Who Became a Pilot

Andrew Golden Obituary

ISSUE 37 (AUGUST 2023)

Sarum Chronology

The Salisbury History Festival 2023 Details

With the Beatles Event Review

The Churchill Gardens – A Concise History

Spitfires – A Detective Story

The Canberra Memorial

Pop Pickings (Local Groups and Events 1970s and 1980s)

How the Snappy One-Liner Became a Railway Epic!

The Military Aeroplane Competition of 1912

More on ‘Mavro’

The Public Houses & Inns of Salisbury – Book Review

ISSUE 36 (JUNE 2023)

Sarum Chronology

The Salisbury Agricultural Show of 1857

A Full Circle – The Regal Cinema

The Black Friars of Fisherton

The Central Car-Park – Buried Treasure

The Third of a Series of Articles About Salisbury’s Schools

My First (proper) Job – Richard Nash

ISSUE 35 (APRIL 2023)

Sarum Chronology

St. Thomas’ Secondary Modern Boys School – A Letter From Alan Crooks

The Mavro Motorcycle Shop and Salisbury Motorcycle and Light Car Club

Book Review – Salisbury in Detail

The Second of a Series of Articles About Salisbury’s Schools

Alderburt Workhouse and the Benham Engine Part 2

Salisbury Literary and Scientific Society

The London Gazette1952 – ‘Bemerton Heath Air Crash Bravery’

Frederick Griffin – From The Timber Trades Journal

ISSUE 34 (FEBRUARY 2023)

Sarum Chronology

St. Thomas’ Old Boys Get-together

The A to Z of Salisbury History Festival – Part 3

A Rather Different Steam Engine – The Mylees Mystery

The first of a series of articles about Salisbury’s Schools

The Haunch of Venison Book Review

The Salisbury Turkish Baths

ISSUE 33 (DECEMBER 2022)

Sarum Chronology

The History of Salisbury Market Place – A Review of the Talk By Geoff Lang

The A to Z of Salisbury History Festival – Part 2

What is the Future of Salisbury City Hall

Further Memories of 65 Fisherton Street

The Bishop, the Doctor and the Mill

Little Known Salisburyans – Part 2

The Winterslow Hut – A Strange Story

ISSUE 32 (OCTOBER 2022)

Sarum Chronology

The A to Z of Salisbury History Festival – Part 1

Deplorable Destitution: Village Life in Winterslow in the 19^th Century

The Lakedown Mystery

Two Little Known Salisburyans – Part one

What Happened to Wilton House Model Railway?

ISSUE 31 (AUGUST 2022)

Charles Dickens, Tom Pinch and Salisbury Market

My Life With Horseshoes

Salisbury History Festival 2022

The Deserted Settlements of Gomeldon

Leonard Moody – Blacksmith

Salisbury Cathedral Screen

Florence Mildred White

ISSUE 30 (JUNE 2022)

Titanic Revisited: A Review of the April Meeting

A Novel Mystery – Daphne du Maurier

Track of all Trades

A Last Ditch Effort – A City of Canals

The Queen Visits Salisbury – 1974

Pop Pickings (Local Groups and Events 1970s and 1980s)

Thomas Pitts Potto

ISSUE 29 (APRIL 2022)

Fuzzy Dates and Sarsen Crates – The Tale of Stone 23

Teed Tools and DIY

Fisherton Street Memories

Case and Sons of Fisherton Street

Marconi and Salisbury Plain

A Ghost Story from Stonehenge

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Matt Tubbs)

Fisherton: An Early Suburb of Salisbury

Remembering the Star-Crossed Lovers

ISSUE 28 (FEBRUARY 2022)

What Did the German’s ever do for us

Bomb Tracks and Train Tracks – The Tale of R.F.C Stonehenge

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Dave Syrett)

The Salisbury Cattle Troughs

Remembering some of the Bygone Shops of Fisherton

St. Thomas’ Old Boys Get-together

Two Salisbury ‘Conchies’ and the Great War

ISSUE 27 (DECEMBER 2021)

Lakedown History Hike

My First Job – Michael Dobbs

Cucumber Rind, Broken Bottles and Picknics – The Tale of Stone 56

Winterbourne and the Thomas Becket Connection

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Walter Judd)

My Good Pal – Peter Johnson

The History of Salisbury Market House

ISSUE 26 (OCTOBER 2021)

Halloween Festival

How I Climbed the Highest Spire in England

Theodore Brown (1870 – 1938) Inventor & Photographer

What’s in a Name – Rampart Road

Fisherton: One of Salisbury’s Earliest Suburbs

Pricthett’s Family Butchers

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Harold Fleming)

Handel House – Fisherton Street

ISSUE 25 (AUGUST 2021)

Salisbury History Festival Details

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – The Spire Railway 1950

Remembering Silver Star

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Martin Foyle)

A Shopkeepers Tale – Rick Pickett

The Ashley Road Tip

ISSUE 24 (JUNE 2021)

Ethem Cetintas R.I.P

They Came to our City

The Death of Leonard Williams

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Alan Green)

My First Job – Ken Smith

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 13

Pop Pickings (Local Groups and Events 1970s and 1980s)

Frogg Moody Delves into the Fisherton Archive – Murder and Suicide

ISSUE 23 (APRIL 2021)

The Other Road to Nowhere

Shopping up on the London Road

My First Job – Hilary Topp

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 12

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Mick Channon)

Jim Smith Chapter IX

Pop Pickings (Local Groups and Events 1970s and 1980s)

ISSUE 22 (FEBRUARY 2021)

Jim Smith Chapter VII

The Porton Tractor

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Adrian Randall)

Pop Pickings (Local Groups and Events 1970s and 1980s)

The Porton Camp Light Military Railway

Les Pinner and Salisbury in the 1920s

My First Job – Anne Nash nee Jones

ISSUE 21 (DECEMBER 2020)

Salisbury Generating Station

A Day in the life of John Crowther

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Dudley Tyler)

Pop Pickings (Local Groups and Events 1970s and 1980s)

Jim Smith – Part VI

The Grand Deception (mathematical tiles)

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 11

ISSUE 20 (OCTOBER 2020)

The Early History of Macklin Road

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 10 – What’s in a Nameplate?

Jim Smith – Part V

Salisbury Cutlery Industry

The Ox Row Inn Fireplace

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Paul Raven)

Pop Pickings (Local Groups and Events 1970s and 1980s)

ISSUE 19 (AUGUST 2020)

Living In Macklin Road in the 30s And 40s (Stan Abbott)

The Salisbury Crest

Jim Smith Part IV

Salisbury – The Mecca for Roller Skating

Pop Pickings (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich; Mason)

Pen Pictures Of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (Frank Monk)

ISSUE 18 (JUNE 2020)

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (David Coleman)

The Invicta Leather Works

When Salisbury Qualified For Europe (It’s A Knockout)

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 9 – The Engine Sheds

Jim Smith Part II

ISSUE 17 (APRIL 2020)

Castle Street Railway Bridge 1927

The Arrival of Salisbury’s World War 2 Evacuees

More on the Fisherton Hermit

Pen Pictures of South Wiltshire Born Footballers (George Marks)

The Golden Age of Motorcycling

Jim Smith Part 1 – Growing up in 1930s Salisbury

Cholera in The 1700s

Famous Pilot Flys to Salisbury to face Manslaughter Charges

ISSUE 16 (FEBRUARY 2020)

Salisbury City in the FA Cup

Gary Nunn’s Musical Memories

Alec Hayter’s Musical Memories

A Forgotten Scandal in Victorian Salisbury

A Timeline to Disaster (1906 Rail Disaster)

ISSUE 15 (DECEMBER 2019)

Stan Abbott – Part 2 Wartime

The Frank Matcham Society Visit to Salisbury

Salisbury and the Mapping of Britain

Pop Pickings (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich in Ringwood)

Joe Smith’s Great War – and after Part 2

ISSUE 14 (OCTOBER 2019)

Don Cross Obituary

A-Z of Businesses Surrounding Salisbury Market Place from Around 1750 (V to Z)

Bunty, Ballet and a Slipper of Gammon: Childhood Memories of Salisbury in the Sixties

Memories of a Little Boy in Wartime Codford

Growing up in Bemerton and Macklin Road (Stan Abbott)

Pop Pickings (The Bostons’ Debut)

Joe Smith’s Great War – Part 1

ISSUE 13 (AUGUST 2019)

A-Z of Businesses Surrounding Salisbury Market Place from Around 1750 (R to U)

Thomas Chubb – The ‘Salisbury Sage’

Pop Pickings (The Days before Rock’n’Roll)

Railway Accident Salisbury GWR Station 6 October 1856 (Part Two)

Anderton And Rowland’s Great Organ

ISSUE 12 (JUNE 2019)

A-Z of Businesses Surrounding Salisbury Market Place from Around 1750 (M to P)

George Herbert’s Medlar Tree

Pop Pickings (The Rolling Stones at Stonehenge; Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich)

Railway Accident Salisbury GWR Station 6 October 1856 (Part One)

Boxing at the Fair

St Clement’s Church/The Secret Garden

ISSUE 11 (APRIL 2019)

Salisbury Railway Disaster 1906 Progress Report

A-Z of Businesses Surrounding Salisbury Market Place from Around 1750 (H to L)

Memories of My Early Life in Salisbury (Denis Brown)

Pop Pickings (Visiting Groups in the 1960s)

The Diary of Roy Nash, Aged 20 (1953)

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 8 – The Porton Military Railway

The Origins of Photography in Salisbury 1839-1919 (Critique of Museum Exhibition)

ISSUE 10 (FEBRUARY 2019)

A-Z of Businesses Surrounding Salisbury Market Place from Around 1750 (A to G)

Memories of the Butts Road Dump

Growing up in Clifton Road

The Diary of Roy Nash, Aged 20 (1953)

Pop Pickings (Local 1950s Groups)

The Salisbury Railway Disaster of 1906

ISSUE 9 (DECEMBER 2018)

Salisbury Market Place and The Crimean Peace Festival of 1856

With Murder in Mind (Salisbury Murders in Fact and Fiction)

The Diary Of Roy Nash, Aged 20 (1952)

Pop Pickings (Cliff Richard at The Gaumont and Other 1950s Shows)

Newspaper Trail (Our Early Railways)

Christmas at Lees

Salisbury’s Second World War Air Raids

ISSUE 8 (OCTOBER 2018)

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 7 – Bulford and Larkhill

Memories of Salisbury (Michael Clarke)

The Meadow Road Murder

Growing Up At Lees Stores

Water Dispute Judgement (1700)

ISSUE 7 (AUGUST 2018)

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 6 – RNAD Dean

The Passing of the Gas Holder

Salisbury and The Great War

The Highfield Pit Dwellings

Museum Exhibition Review (Henry Lamb: Out of the Shadows)

ISSUE 6 (JUNE 2018)

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 5 – RAF Chilmark

Where Did Salisbury Playhouse Really Start? (Part Two)

Five Minutes with…Ken Hawkins (Beatles’ Photographer)

The Wyatt Family in Salisbury

Harold Ira Couchman, RFC, RAF (1897-1961)

Schooldays in Salisbury in the Sixties

ISSUE 5 (APRIL 2018)

Buddy Holly Odeon Plaque

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 4 – The Western Military Lines at Dinton

Fisherton History Society Talk Review (The Early History of Cinema in Salisbury)

Where Did Salisbury Playhouse Really Start?

The Man Who Would Be Mayor…Eventually (Alfred Courtney)

Fisherton and Cholera in 1849

Sampson Payne

Andrew Bogle Middleton

Devizes Road Cemetery

ISSUE 4 (FEBRUARY 2018)

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 3 – The Salisbury Market House Library

Old Manor Hospital Memories

The Fisherton Floods

Caring for Salisbury’s Healthcare History

T E Lawrence Artefacts

Air Raid – Gasholder Hit!

Picturing Salisbury (Postcard Collecting)

ISSUE 3 (DECEMBER 2017)

Fire at Fisherton Working Men’s Club

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 2 – Salisbury & Dorset Junction Railway

Roy Remembers Lower Road

A Strange Fisherton House Tale From 1873

Execution at Fisherton

Fisherton and Bemerton Brickyards: Where The Bricks Come From

Elizabeth Kimberley Walker MB (Edin) ChB (1900-1974)

The Diary of the Reverend John Adams 1752-1804

ISSUE 2 (OCTOBER 2017)

Fisherton Bridge – Still Spanning The Ages

When The Top Was Lopped Off The Nestles Chimney

Salisbury’s Lost Railways – 1 – Milford Goods

Roy Remembers Church Fields

The Fisherton Neanderthal

Fred Griffin – Jubilee Mayor 1887

A City Church (United Reform Church)

ISSUE 1 (AUGUST 2017)

Secret Spitfires

The Bemerton Heath Plane Crash

Living Near the Gasworks

Memories of Growing Up in Old Fisherton

Roy’s Wartime Memories

The St Thomas Church Alchemist

Salisbury’s Lost Railways

Miss Beatrice Newman

PILOT ISSUE (JUNE 2017)

The First Fisherton Railway Disaster

Sir Cecil Chubb -The Man Who Bought Stonehenge

A Fisherton Soldier and Railwayman (Frank Nash)

The Mystery of Constable’s Wagon

Robberies at Mr Cole’s Shop

The Star of Hope, Fisherton Street