Salisbury's Story - 50 - Railway Disaster

Salisbury - 800 Years of History- Part 50 The Boat-Train Disaster
Salisbury 800 is a celebration of the history of this historic City and its World-Famous and Celebrated Cathedral. Written to mark the 800th Anniversary of the founding of the Cathedral and City in 1220, we hope you will enjoy the films which chart the ups and downs in 800 years of history.
As it happens, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, this was the only project to actually run for the marking of this Anniversary.
© Poetry, Text, Reading, Imagery copyright Alan Doel 2020.
Chapters
01 On the Peak of Sarum - A Key Fortress After the Conquest
02 Decline of Sarum - Diminished Role and Clash of Importance
03 An Organising Spirit - Bishop Hubert Walter's designs for Sarum
04 The Great Offence - Barred from their own Cathedral
05 Fault Lines - A Petition to the Pope
06 The Gothic Crusade - Birth of the Pointed Arch Architecture
07 Bishop Richard and the Arrow - Legends of the Founding of Salisbury
08 Foundation Day - An April Day for the laying of Foundation Stones
09 The Master Elias - An Extraordinary Man, Elias de Dereham
10 Stones and Timbers - Sourcing the Building Materials
11 Monies, Gifts and Sins - How to Fund Such a Huge Building Project
12 Trinity Chapel - How the Cathedral Would Look
13 Walls That Rise - How the Cathedral Grew in the Valley
14 Petrified Perfection - Secrets of the Salisbury Cathedral
15 New Shoots - Design of a New Medieval City
16 Rites of Sarum - Rules of Sarum Cathedral Spread Our Fame
17 Aegel's Fording - Bridge-Building Secures Sarum's Future
19 Consecration - The Completion of the Cathedral, more or less..
20 Heaven and Earth - The Design and Effect of the Architecture
21 Building On - Adding to the Cathedral and City
22 Momentous Decision - Why Did They Wait So Long to Raise the Spire?
23 Tower and Spire - The Challenges to Building the Tower and Spire
24 Arrow in the Sky - The Spire Changed all Approaches to the City
25 Rat and Clock - An Ancient Clock and a Medieval Murder
26 The Close Wall - How to Protect the Sacred Community
27 Years of Death - The coming of the Black Death in 1349
28 A Late Saint - The Delayed Canonisation of Osmund
29 Last Judgement - The Doom Painting at St Thomas's Church, Salisbury
30 Henry Stafford - Beheading of the Duke of Buckingham
31 Reformation and Martyrdom - Revolution and the Three Salisbury Martyrs
32 A Salisbury Hero - Mayor John Ivie - The Plague in Salisbury
33 George Herbert - A Thoughtful Religious Man of Bemerton St Andrew
34 Civil War - Father vs Son, Neighbour vs Neighbour
35 Rights of Worship - How the Chapels Survived Persecution
36 The Great Wren - Sir Christopher Wren, the Wiltshire-born Genius
37 John Wesley - Salisbury's Wesleyan Heritage
38 An Infirmary - Founding of Salisbury Infirmary
39 James “Destroyer” Wyatt - The Architect who Destroyed So Much
40 A Precocious Wanderer - Accidental Death of a Child?
41 Victory! - News of the Battle of Trafalgar
42 The Accursed Hill - William Cobbett's Rant on Old Sarum
43 Green the Aeronaut - An Early Balloon Trip
44 The Great Western - The First Salisbury Railway Disaster of 1856
45 Poverty and Disease - Slum Housing and disastrous Cholera Outbreak
46 Victorian Shopping - The Wealth and Variety of Salisbury Shops
47 Statuesque Reminders - Henry Fawcett, Sidney Herbert & Florence Nightingale
48 Military Manoeuvres - The First War Games on Salisbury Plain 1898/1907
49 Gothic Revival - Augustus Pugin and Gothic Restorations.
50 Railway Disaster - The Boat Train Disaster of 1906
51 Wondrous Novelties - Developments on Salisbury Plain, and Stonehenge.
52 Empiric War - The First World War
53 Remembrance - Memorialising the Fallen of the Great War
54 Needful Expansion - Residential expansion in Salisbury, and the 1930 Carnival for the Infirmary.
55 The Fight for Freedoms - Second World War and the Secret Spitfires
56 State of Welfare - Cinema in Salisbury, Odstock and Harvard Hospitals.
57 Save Our Spire - The 1950 Campaign to Repair the Spire-tip.
58 A Growing City - New Council Housing, Roads, Car-Parks and Shopping.
59 Amnesty - The Prisoners of Conscience Windows.
60 An Inspired Symphony - The Campaign to Rescue and Restore the Cathedral.
61 Timeless Crafts - A Lifetime's Project to Restore the Cathedral.
62 Birds Nest Spire - Floodlighting and Guided Tours of the Tower.
63 Holy Waters - A Wonderful Font by William Pye.
64 2020 A Year of Trial - The Year of Coronavirus.
65 Journeys End.