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on Jun 19, 2009
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In the foyer of the History Centre we have displayed images of some of the favourite places in Wiltshire and Swindon voted for by the people of the county and the borough in an online poll conducted a few years ago by the Windows on Wiltshire Project. The winner, with over 20% of the vote was Avebury, with North Meadow Cricklade and the Westbury White Horse coming second and third respectively. Other places high up on the list include Malmesbury Abbey and Salisbury Cathedral, the GWR Works in Swindon and the Box Railway Tunnel, the Caen Hill Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal near Devizes and, of course, Stonehenge. Read on to find out about my own personal favourite - will it be yours?......
Do You Recognise This Wiltshire Landscape?
Posted by: Blog Administrator
on Jun 18, 2009
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Posted by: Blog Administrator
on Jun 18, 2009
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Posted by: Blog Administrator
on Jun 16, 2009
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Conservators in the Objects labs are currently working on a glass goblet (pictured above) dating to the Medieval period. The goblet was found at Ludgershall Castle which comes under the collecting remit of Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes.
The vessel is in several pieces at the moment and will require careful cleaning before it can be reconstructed. Glass is notoriously fragile and can deteriorate very quickly in a burial environment so it is not often that whole objects are found. Conservators are hoping that analysis can be done to discover what the goblet may have been used for. Organic residues can sometimes be detected on the surface of objects which can indicate that they may have been used for eating and drinking in the past. This goblet is quite ornate so it may in fact have been a decorative piece with no other use.
Posted by: Blog Administrator
on Jun 4, 2009
Hello, my name is Clare and I'm the Modern Records Officer at the History centre. My job is to collect together all of the records of the four District councils that have been combined with the County council to make the new Wiltshire Council.
Although the majority of the records I am dealing with are from after 1974 (when the District Councils were set up), whilst trawling through the boxes and filing cabinets I also sometimes find earlier items.
Posted by: Blog Administrator
on Jun 3, 2009
We are pleased to be able to report that Wiltshire Council Museums Advisory Service has been successful in obtaining £15,000 from the South West Hub Museum Development Fund.
The money is for a project which we have entitled 'Photographing Wiltshire's Treasures'. This will be a partnership between New College Swindon, The Museums Advisory Service and a number of museums in the county. Photography students from the college will come to the partner museums on pre-arranged visits with equipment to take high quality photographs of objects from museum collections.
Photographing objects at Dewey Museum in Warminster
