Salisbury on Camera: 50 years of the Salisbury Journal Archive

In 2015 Salisbury Museum acquired the Salisbury Journal photo archive. The collection contains in excess of 450,000 images – stored as negatives, prints and digital files. Over the past seven years a dedicated team of museum volunteers have been steadily digitising the negative collection. More than 200,000 images have been scanned to date.

This exhibition is a celebration of the first fifty years of the archive which starts in 1953. 244 images have been selected by museum volunteer Ken Smith which have been arranged according to the decade they come from. Overall the collection provides a unique record of the city and surrounding area. Themes include major events, fashion, sport, music, environment, buildings, famous visitors and everyday life.