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Damien Bradley and the Team Legacy UK 1992 Subaru Legacy race car attended Gurston Down Speed Hill Climb in Broad Chalke, England. The car is powered by a turbocharged 2.35 L flat-four built by Mike Latimer. The drivetrai...
One of the first live events of the summer will offer families the opportunity to travel through history... the perfect antidote to memories of the past year. Tickets go on sale today for the Chalke Valley History Festival, which is sponsored by the Daily Mail. As well as a stellar line-up of speakers, the event – starting on June 23, two days after the date when nearly all legal limits on social contact are due to end – offers glamping, live music, story-telling, food from fine dining to fish and chips and a bar, all in the idyllic English countryside. Young festival-goers can enjoy Tudo...
vintage fairground, with traditional funfair attractions Historical encampment that will take visitors bake through time from the Stone Age right through to the Second World War A new Speaker’s Corner for shorter talks, late evening story-telling by the fire, live music every day, a chance to view the country’s only working Soviet T-34 tank The History Tellers Picture by Elizabeth Perry For the first time, there will be a Second World War Soldier School where instructors will take young recruits from the parade ground to handling weapons Food, hygiene and the home will be themes a...
Hampshire Chronicle by the daughter of a former correspondent of this newspaper. They capture the autumn of days for steam travel in Hampshire in the 1950s. Within ten years steam had been replaced by diesel and electric. The photographs were sent to us by Di Jeans and were taken by her father, Dr. J.L. Farmer who was a railway enthusiast. He wrote articles ‘Railway Notes’ for the Hampshire Chronicle under the initials T.J. during the 1950s, before he died aged 46, in February 1960 when Di was 10 years old and her sister aged 15. Di told the Chronicle: “I do remember spending m...
Award-winning historian Tom Holland will give a virtual talk for the Devizes-based Wiltshire Museum this evening. Tom Holland, born in Broad Chalke near Salisbury, will give a lecture on both the ancient and modern aspects of his native county. The academic, who is currently in London, said the talk was a chance to re-visit the vast history of Wilthsire while also raising funds for the museum. 'What Goes Around Comes Around: Wiltshire, from Stone Circles to Corn Circles' kicks off at 7.30pm. “The Wiltshire Museum is the third oldest county museum in the country I believe, and of gre...