Broadwell playground again

A fortnight ago we showed a picture of the old playground at Broadwell. This featured the rocket shaped ‘rocking horse’ and a climbing frame shaped like a Gemini space capsule. You can click here ...

Broadwell Playground 1980 style

Sometimes it can pay to look at what may seem to some of us like fairly recent photos. The one we look at today was taken just as a family snapshot by our curator back in 1980. It shows his son at the...

White Street in the 1970s

A word about White Street first. Chalk, the rock of Salisbury Plain, is white in colour and we find almost every village had a white coloured street before the days of tarmac. Easterton, Market Laving...