Fisherton Informer

THE FISHERTON INFORMER

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We welcome local history contributions to our magazine including articles, photographs, postcards etc.

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

The complete list will appear here shortly.

MAIN CONTENTS OF PILOT AND ISSUES 1 TO 20

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 17 (APRIL 2020)

Castle Street Railway Bridge 1927

The Arrival of Salisbury’s World War 2 Evacuees

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