AN ANNUAL publication featuring historic research highlighting the people, places and events that has shaped Salisbury’s history is available in bookshops.
In the current issue, it reveals how Scot-born American industrialist Andrew Carnegie funded the public library in Chipper Lane and tells the story of Augustus Pugin who moved to Alderbury where he designed the modern Houses of Parliament and St Osmund’s Catholic church in Salisbury.
Pugin was also involved in renovating the medieval hall of John Halle which is the entrance to the Odeon Cinema in New Canal.
Sarum Chronicle editorial board member Ruth Butler said: “SC23 has more than 180 pages of original historical research in 12 articles covering such topics as Salisbury’s churches and pubs, the 1923 general election when Salisbury last elected an MP who was not Conservative, and Salisbury Cathedral’s first woman sculptor.
“There are also articles on an 18th century Salisbury mapmaker, the Downton Band and history as told through embroidery and much more. It really is a good read.”
Sarum Chronicle was first published in 2000 and is available from The History Bookshop at Fisherton Mill, the Rocketship Bookshop, Waterstones, The Salisbury Museum, Salisbury Cathedral and Waitrose.
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