George Bottle was descended from a Warminster family. In his younger days he was employed as a farm worker at Norton Bavant but for most of his working life he ran a flourishing pork butchery business. His home at Turnpike Cottage, Henford Marsh, had a small slaughterhouse attached. Wearing his familiar blue and white apron, George delivered the meat by horse and trap direct to customers’ doors over a wide area in and around Warminster. Many people considered him an expert with regards the various cuts, types and grades of pigmeat. He retired during the 1940s, when he and his wife, Eliza Jane, moved to 4 Broadway Lane, Warminster. George died, aged 86, at Warminster Hospital on 17th April 1962. Eliza was in Warminster Hospital at the same time and was unable to attend her husband’s funeral at Christ Church. She also died in Warminster Hospital, a year later, on 12th April 1963. She was 85.