Salisbury

About Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately 20 miles from Southampton and 30 miles from Bath.
On the show — 20 mentions total
We had one case: there was a couple at a dinner party in the 1970s, and over the dinner table the wife said, 'Oh, I was building Spitfires in Salisbury during the war.'
from 483: No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone, 2023-06-16 at 00:33:19 · read transcript
Other times Salisbury came up
Micro factories around the place which are all hidden so they used all sorts of little offices or garages a laundry an old glove factory they just divide it was amazing they just divided it up and lots of them were in salisbury and redding and trobridge and just like all over the place basically and this came out decades after the war that this is how it had been done basically and um there was an engineer who worked on them called norman parker.
No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone, 2023-06-15 · listen
You used to even be able to chip bits off them, I think we but um yeah. How do they feel when you scratch that swastika on here? I love that story, in 1915 a wealthy barrister called Sir Cecil Chubb he went to an auction in Salisbury intending to buy a pair of curtains at a knock-down price and ended up buying Stonehenge. and ended up buying Stonehenge. Yeah.
522: No Such Thing As Monet's Bog Cottons, 2024-03-14 · listen
One of the things it describes is a raid in 1994. and this was by the RSPB, the investigator of the RSPB, who was specifically out-catch egg thieves, and he raided this hotel in Salisbury in 1994, and there was this, because he knew that there was this Jordan Society dinner taking place, and the RSPB actually planted an attractive female employee at the bar at the meeting of the egg thieves to try and get secrets.
No Such Thing As A Female Egg Thief, 2018-03-23 · listen
How did they feel when you scratch that swastika on here? I love that story. In 1915, a wealthy barrister called Sir Cecil Chubb. He went to an auction in Salisbury intending to buy a pair of curtains at a knock-down price and ended up buying Stonehenge. Darling, don't be angry. It reminds me, John, of that time that you bought the life-size Barbie ball. The Christmas tree Barbie for my daughters, yeah.
No Such Thing As Monet's Bog Cottons, 2024-03-14 · listen
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