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Programme of Events

Members' Meetings

In accordance with its aims, the Society is committed to arranging activities for its members. There is normally one meeting a month, which may fall into one or more categories. Please refer to the current programme, and a listing of past lectures and visits to see the activities of the Society organised for members over the last five years.

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Programme for 2012

Past Lectures and Visits

1996-2010

LECTURES

2010

Feb: Planning Forum: Traffic issues in Salisbury
Mar: The Living River Project – Addressing the Threats Facing the River Avon
Jun: AGM & The Mary Rose – Past, Present and Future
Sep: "Salisbury in Detail"
Nov: Endless Beat – Popular Music in Salisbury 1945 to 1999

2009
Feb: Planning Forum: Wiltshire Council - Planning, Conservation & You’
Mar: History of Methodism in Salisbury
Apr/May: Five Spring Lectures: Georgian Salisbury
......A First Great Revolution: Agriculture & the Water Meadows
......The Romantic Villa & Salisbury
......Transport: Roads, Canals, Railways & Coaches
......Church Music & the Rise of Dissent
......Romanticism, Architecture, Landscape Gardens & Salisbury
Jun: AGM & The Studio Theatre: the Phoenix Rises
Sep: Cathedral Rocks
Nov: Colourful Characters of the Nadder Valley
Dec: Open Meeting - Housing Estates

2008
Jan: Planning Forum to discuss Conservation Areas
Feb:History of the Woodfalls Band
May: The Two Great Ladies of Wilton
Jun: The Development of Salisbury Market Place
Sep: Ponies & People of the New Forest
Nov: Ham Hill Stone in Salisbury

2007
Feb: Planning Forum to discuss the Salisbury Vision 
Feb/Mar: Five Spring Lectures: Aspects of Heritage
......Cathedral Vault Paintings
......Chantry Chapels in Salisbury
......Harold Peto and his Gardens
......Wandering Architects
......The Sarum Use
Apr: We mustn’t frighten the readers: Salisbury in the age of Cholera
Jun: Palaces, Patronage & Pills
Sep: Women’s Suffrage in South Wilts
Nov: Where was Old Sarum?
Nov: Open Meeting: World Heritage Sites                      

2006
Jan: Launch of Society's Streetscape Survey
Feb: The Longford Estates
Mar/Apr: Five Spring Lectures : Aspects of Heritage
.....Too Many Churches in Salisbury?
.....The Cathedral Choir Stalls
.....Conservation of the West Front
.....Licensed to Sell
.....The Cathedral Stained Glass
Jun: Music & Entertainment throughout the Ages
Sep: The Issues of providing a Rural Bus Service
Oct: Sewerage
Nov: Open Meeting: Saving the Planet without Costing the Earth

2005
Feb: Beyond the Playhouse Footlights
Mar: Planning Forum - Vision for Salisbury
Apr: The Fovant Badges
Jun: AGM & Talk: Plague, Pestilence & Poverty
Oct: The Economic Benefits of Restoring Historic Buildings
Nov: Open Meeting: Water, Water, Everywhere?

2004
Feb: Wyatt, Pugin, and the Gothic Revival
Mar: Planning Forum - "A Vision for the Future" – Magna Carta Centre, Salisbury Cathedral
Apr: Thatch and Thatching
Jun: AGM & Talk: Ghosts in Salisbury
Oct: The Work of the Historic Houses Association
Nov: Open meeting - "Streets for All"

2003
Feb: Landscape Design
June: Mompesson House
October: Waste and Waste Management
November: Oxford Traffic Forum

2002
Feb: Palladian Architecture Around Salisbury
May: Salisbury Markets
June: Policing Wiltshire
October: Trees in Salisbury

2001
Feb: Salisbury /Saintes Twinning Association
March: A Stone Mason's 23 years of repairing Historic Buildings
May: Flood Protection Schemes
June: Redundant Churches in the Salisbury Area and Beyond
October: Managing Salisbury. City Centre Management Board

2000
Feb: Editing the Salisbury Journal
May: Stonehenge World Heritage Site management Plans
June: Barrows Pits and Ancestors - Martin Green
A History of Almshouses

1999
March: Members' Planning Forum: Salisbury City Centre - the Future
April: Talking with Music. Music in Salisbury
May: History and Topography of the Water meadows at Harnham
June: AGM + History and Restoration of the Kennet and Avon Canal

1998
Jan: Use of Lime in Historic Buildings
Feb: The Future of National Trust
March: The Hazards of managing Household Waste
May: AGM + The Theatre in Salisbury
Oct: Financial Management of the Cathedral
Nov: The Civil War in Wiltshire

1997
Jan: Wren hall - past and present
Feb: Rural Development Commission
March: Restoration of Wilton House
April: Farming Around Salisbury for the last Forty Years
December: Salisbury Industrial Heritage

1996
Jan: Running the Salisbury Festival
Feb: Textile Conservation - Sharon Manitta
March: Excavations of medieval Salisbury
April: History of the Post Office
Oct: Updating Pevsner in New Forest, Romsey and Avon valley
Nov: Old and New Buildings in Salisbury

VISITS

2010
Apr: Housing Development & Airfield at Old Sarum
May: Visit to Guildford
Jul: Charles Villiers Myster Visit and Supper
Sep: Liminality Exhibition Salisbury Cathedral
Oct: Embley Park, childhood home of Florence Nightingale & East Wellow Church

2009
Mar: Studio Theatre "Afterwards"
Jun: Special Access Visit to Stonehenge plus breakfast
Jul: Walk "Turner in Salisbury"
Jul: Don & Judi Cross Mystery Visit & Supper
Aug: Higher Stavordale Farm
Sep: Society Open Days

2008
Apr: Visit to Devizes
Jun, Jul & Aug: Themed Walks in the Close Area - Artists, Literature, Architecture
Jun:  Visit to Cathedral Flower Festival
Jul: Chairman General Purposes Committee’s Mystery Visit to Milton Abbey
Aug: Stonehenge Project Excavations

2007
May: Weald & Downland Museum
Jun: Ginger Piggery at Boyton Farm,
Jul: Chairman’s Mystery Visit to Norrington Manor & St Mary Church Alvediston
Aug: Wilton House - parts of Gardens not normally open to the public
Oct: Royal Holloway, University of London (cancelled)

2006

Apr: Kennet & Avon Canal
May: Longford Castle
Jun: Poole as Guests of Poole Men's Society
Jul: Vice-Chairman's Mystery Visit to Langford Church & Manor
Sep: Behind the Scenes at the Museum

2005
Apr: Downton Moot
Apr: Behind the Scenes Salisbury Playhouse
May: Kennet & Avon Canal
Jun: Southampton
Jul: Secretary's visit to Roche Court
Sep: Solstice Park

2004
Apr: Portsmouth
May: Christchurch (postponed)
Jun: Farley Village
Jul: President's visit to the Chalke Valley
Sep: Rockbourne Roman Villa

2003
March: Waitrose Supermarket
April: Dorchester – guests of Dorchester Civic Society
June: Breamore Village
July: Tollard Royal
Sept: Old Manor Hospital
October: Wessex Archaeology
Chapel Night Club / former Elim Church

2002
May: Ebbleswade Courtyard and Harpsichord Workshop
June: Salisbury Racecourse
July: 11 Redundant Churches in the Wylye Valley.
Sept: Medieval and 17th Century Frome

2001
May: Winchester
June: Salisbury Close
July: Whitchurch Silk Mill and Wooldings Vineyard

2000
May: Poundbury Village, Dorchester
June: Houses of the Cathedral Close - four
July: Martin Green's Museum - archaeological and geological
Sept: Romsey - guests of Romsey and District Civic Society

1999
March: BBC Radio Solent in Southampton
June: Defence Evaluation and Research Agency - Boscombe Down
July: Kennet and Avon Canal
Oct: Salisbury College

1998
April: Trafalgar Park on St George's Day
May: Downton Tannery and the Moot
June: Porton Down - archaeological sites
July: Bryanston School and Blandford with Blandford Civic Society

1997
May: Ordnance Survey Headquarters
June: Cathedral's West Front and Workshops
July: Walk in Broad Chalke
Oct: Marks and Spencer - behind the scenes

1996
May: Sherbourne Abbey, Almshouse and Castle
July: Wilton Carpet Factory and Lord Congleton's garden
July: Nature Walk in New forest
August: Longford Castle
Sept: Houses in St Ann Street - four private houses opened

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HERITAGE OPEN DAYS

September 2010
Hidden Salisbury

September 2009
Unseen buildings in The Close

September 2008
1258.......and all that!

September 2007
Salisbury`s Industrial Heritage

September 2006
Any Body There? - Historical Cemeteries, Churches and ChurchyardS

September 2005
Almshouses and Places of Care were open for vistis and there were also walks.

September 2004
For 3 days the Society hosted visits to school buildings in the Close. They were Leaden Hall, the Cathdral School, Wren Hall, Bishop Wordsworth School & Sarum College.

September 2003
The society organised a tour around six hostelries in the city, where visitors were able to visit the parts of these hostelries not normally available to public view.