From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 20th August 1910:
Warminster. Proposal to erect an Obelisk.
A meeting of subscribers to the John Hall Memorial Fund was held at the Town Hall on Friday, with 16 persons present. There was discussion on the form to be taken by a proposed memorial to Mr. Hall, who was a strong advocate of Free Trade principles. One suggestion was a portrait to hang in the Town Hall, the other, favoured by his family, was an obelisk outside Mr. Hall’s house at the top of High Street Hill . . . . It was agreed that Mr. Strong be asked to prepare a design for an obelisk, and the U.D.C. be asked for permission to erect it.