Wilfred Middlebrook in his newspaper serialisation ‘Highways And Byways In Warminster’ noted:
“Within the past year or so, a ‘banana factory’ has been erected by Van Geest Industries Ltd., [at Copheap Lane, Warminster] to process fruit. New [railway] sidings have been built to the building on land between Portway and the footpath leading up to Copheap from the railway.”
This part of the serialisation was published in the Wiltshire Times, Friday 22nd April 1960.