Shopping Lists Part 04 QUIZ

A stray bit of paper found in the bottom of a supermarket trolley can be very revealing, but what does it reveal.  Turn detective in the latest Quiz of Quizzes.  

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go to the SHOPPING LIST page on the right.

CLATFORD & STUKELEY

Many have thought that the 18th Century Antiquarian of Avebury and Stonehenge fame William Stukely to be unreliable in some of his recordings of Ancient sites around Wiltshire.  


A group of archaeologists are currently looking at one of his drawings in reference to a site at water meadows, Barrow Farm,  near Marlborough that might change some of that opinion.  A few metres away from where Mike Parker Pearson (Sheffield University) and his colleagues (from other Universities including Leicester, Southampton and Bristol) are working, is the site which Stukeley recorded below.  The large Sarsen stones are no longer there, but there is evidence to support their existence and of the roadways marked.

The team of archaeologists are hoping to find evidence of more Sarsens which would form a causeway across the ford for the crossing of large stones on their way to Stonehenge.  In the picture below holes are being bored to find evidence of Sarsens that would have been used to make the causeway.

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GUERILLAS

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Wiltshire M4

The Wiltshire M4 from Burderop Bridge

Reading from 'Botanical Interest Created by the Construction of the M4 Motorway in Wiltshire'

by Philip Horton, Joan Swanborough, Stephanie Tyler.  1972

Taken from the Wiltshire Archaelogical and Natural History Magazine 

Volume 67, 1972, Part A; Natural History

FIGHT

A Sparrowhawk assaults a Magpie in the apple tree of a Wiltshire garden, the noise that follows is loud as the Magpie fights in an effort to escape, but it seems to be in vain.  Quietly the Sparrowhawk takes his prey to ground and grinds it to the floor, he takes an occasional rest and looks in the distance.  20 minutes of fighting are interrupted by a cat who runs towards the birds, as the Sparrowhawk flies off with the Magpie in his claws they separate and the squawking stops.  The Magpie has escaped.

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What are the 7 wonders of Swindon?

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Shopping Lists Part 03 QUIZ

A stray bit of paper found in the bottom of a supermarket trolley can be very revealing, but what does it reveal.  Turn detective in the Quiz of Quizzes.  

To see the Wiltshire Pop Up collection and play
go to the SHOPPING LIST page on the right.

A Field near Fosbury

03.00 pm Wednesday 10.08.11

PARADISE STREET, WILTSHIRE

HOW DO YOU GET TO PARADISE STREET?

Paradise Street can be wherever you want it to be

and many people know how to get there

for directions go to the 'PARADISE WILTSHIRE' page on the right.

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I knew Dave pretty well, thought I did anyway, we got on and even though I stopped speaking to him it was more out of my embarrassment and disappointment in his behaviour. 

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RONNIE COX

Ronnie Cox was a farm worker from Wexcombe near Ludgershall.  In 1995 he appeared on the BBC Wiltshire programme 'Down Wiltshire Way' with Gerry Hughes to hear him use the video panel below.

Shopping Lists Part 02

A stray bit of paper found in the bottom of a supermarket trolley, bag, on the street or crumpled up in the bottom of your pocket can be very revealing.  

To see the Wiltshire Pop Up collection 
go to the SHOPPING LIST page on the right.

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Not a story but a limerick from an octogenarian cricket lover.

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AERATED WATER BOTTLES

These two aerated water bottles were found in a garden in South Wiltshire, one is marked 'Swindon, Wiltshire', the other 'Lowestoft, Beccles, Yarmouth'.

This painting shows aerated water being bottled.

THE BASSETT BUNNIES

Royal Wootton Bassett is known for many things and now we can put the discovery of The Bassett Bunnies to the list.  An unassuming house contains an extensive collection of rabbit like creatures constructed in a variety of methods, the collection is fascinating as you don't really know where to look as there are so many bunnies on display but we managed to pick a few gems.

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Swindon could beat Arsenal they’d done it before, the last time was in the League Cup and this time it’s the FA cup so why not?  It makes sense; Swindon will beat Arsenal in all the cups, obviously.

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PARADISE STREET, WILTSHIRE

HOW DO YOU GET TO PARADISE STREET?

Paradise Street can be wherever you want it to be

and many people know how to get there

for directions go to the 'PARADISE WILTSHIRE' page on the right.

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The Closing of the Swindon Works 1986

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NOT SHOPPING LISTS

This is not a shopping list and more not shopping lists can be seen from the Shopping List page to the right.

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Surveys are carried out by a flotilla of various types who litter the streets of every town especially Swindon.

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