Exhibition: Milestones; rioters in drag and the grotesque
- Included with General Admission
- 07 Dec 24 - 27 Apr 25
- The Salisbury Museum, The King's House, 65 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EN
- 10:00 - 17:00 daily
Photographs by Jamie Hobson
There are possibly 9,000 milestones, mileposts or waymarkers still in existence in this country although the number is greatly diminished from their heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Jamie first became aware of them as a child when being driven slowly, as they did in the 1950’s, past these jewels of archaic information – roman numerals which had to be learned before they released their crucial information. This exhibition is a cursory look at the subject focused mainly on milestones, directional signs and boundary stones in and around Salisbury with occasional excursions into the weirdness of Cornish milestones. It focuses on typography, typology, numerals, manicules and the magnificent work of Kinneir and Calvert. As for rioters in drag and the grotesque…well you’ll have to visit the exhibition.
