May 1981, if you remember it you weren't there.

Brian on FullTone Festival Our regular historian and Visiting Research Fellow of The Regional History Centre, UWE Bristol, Brian Edwards takes some time to sketch the FullTone Orchestra ahead of next weekend's festival.... I was blown away when attending one of the Fulltone Orchestra's practice…

Sketching at the Fulltone Orchestra's practice session today - they are fantastic. Two day festival next weekend - do please order tickets. share.google/8dmpFiHVLauA...

My sketches of the musicians have been combined to create a poster. Their music is so amazing, please buy tickets and support this festival.

Whilst I was researching Morris dancing at Stonehenge since 1939, English Heritage sought to stage a reenactment of this photo from 1953. Sarum Morris had already been invited when I pointed out the side in the photo was White Horse Morris. Only just got round to writing this up...

1860.

Sketching at the Fulltone Orchestra's practice session today - they are fantastic. Two day festival next weekend - do please order tickets. share.google/8dmpFiHVLauA...

Want to live within the Avebury henge? I found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

Quite why the Sussex Heritage Community wants to ban men wearing headphones whilst urinating is anyone's guess.

Paul Drury (1903-1987), 'Stonehenge - Three Witches from Macbeth', dated 24 Sept 1961, 29 x 38cm.

British Brodie 2nd pattern helmet shell with remains of the large painted insignia in the form of a Hanoverian white horse on red oval.

Oppunism from Matt in tomorrow's Telegraph.

185,000 views... In contrast very few will have read ‘Silbury Hill: Edward Drax and the Excavations of 1776’, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Magazine 103, 2010, pp. 257-268. See also: pp. 323-325. archive.org/details/wilt... See also: pp. 89-92. archive.org/details/wilt...

Some images from the 'Ways of Seeing Wiltshire' exhibition I curated for Wiltshire Museum in 2021. share.google/Qz9qLwLSjtTm...

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was born on this day in 1903. He lived for a while in this cottage in Wallington where he and Eileen were married, and they held a wedding reception of sorts in The Plough.

This detail from a late 18th century engraving has long been explained as visitors trying to chip off souvenirs at Stonehenge, but in sketching the characters, the figure on the right appears to be remonstrating with the figure holding the mallet and chisel.

Painted when he was just 17 at the site now dominated by the Clifton Suspension Bridge: JMW Turner's The Rising Squall, Hot Wells House, from St. Vincent's Rock, Bristol, 1792.

The Westbury White Horse at Bratton this day in 2016.

Wiltshire County Cricket cap, by New & Lingwood Ltd of Eton, London & Cambridge, awarded to Richard James Gulliver, Wiltshire & Minor Counties 1969-1983, captain 1981-3.

The Order of Druids, silver award medal by Ottley: Bro. John King P.A., as an Acknowledgement of His praiseworthy efforts in obtaining new Members to the Lodge, by the Loyal Queen of the Tees Lodge No 62, Stockton on Tees Eqd District, Jan. 1 1879.

Daddy will explain about these stones.

I have probably mentioned before that from the few examples in museum collections, it seems Stonehenge was rarely painted by women before the interwar period. Ellen Josephine Philips, nee Langton, 1836-1919: Stonehenge Oct 21 1890.

An excellent start to Father's Day.

Stonehenge drawn and etched before 1791 by Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817).

Soon to be published - 'Forever Changing Avebury'.

Hillary Paynter (b. 1943), 'Stones over Avebury.'

William Giles (1872-1939), Stonehenge, woodcut, 48 x 58cms.

In view of the somewhat negative responses to the Stonehenge news today; I offer evidence of Matt Leivers pointing when on site. 😃

My grandson was tackling William Blake at school today. I asked him which of these was created by Blake? He said "Only you would make trilithons out of Lego Granddad!"

Hope you are feeling better @reblambert.bsky.social As you are stuck indoors, here is a picture guide to the creation of a Wiltshire seaside 😉 The crab is a favourite, it is the size of a tea plate.

FIFA takes away Iranian flags at the US stadiums

David Humphreys 1901-1970, Sarsens, Avebury, oil on board, 31.5 x 31.5cm.

Art on a postcard to raise money for The Hepatitus C Trust: Ben Edge, Silbury Hill, 2021, Oil on Canvas Paper, 15 x 10cm. Ben Edge is a visual artist and songwriter who lives and works in North London.

Had the pleasure of swimming in Westbury baths today, one of the oldest still operating in the country - the baths that is not me.

A chance encounter in the street - Rodney giving the thumbs up - culture is everywhere.

Avebury by Mark Cheverton (1952-1991) - think this was probably created when Mark was an art teacher at Marlborough College. The joint founder, with his wife Lottie (Charlotte Mary Rose Ramsden 1960 – 1991), of the Leith School of Art in Edinburgh, Mark and Lottie tragically died in a car crash.

Night of the Demon (1957), featured locations that included Stonehenge and the British Museum; also featuring were lines later sampled by Kate Bush in 1985 in the 'Hounds of Love' - "It's in the trees! It's coming!"

Peter Wickham, Avebury, 1981, 29cm x 40cm.

This in Avebury.

At first light on this day in 2018, I was lost in my own thoughts when CND turned up with a big statement.