From Warminster And District Archive magazine, No.2, Spring 1989:
Cafe Makes Way For New C.A.B.
Another change in Warminster’s Central Car Park has been the removal of the cafe west of the northern entrance to the Anchor Yard. Run until recently by Trevor Chappell, it served, amongst others, the needs of the motoring public and coach parties who used the Central Car Park as a stopping place on their journeys through Warminster.
In the past couple of years application was made to use the pre-fabricated building for other purposes, including carpet sales, but was met with refusal. Tenders were invited for the cafe’s demolition and in late January/early February 1989, Oakferry Ltd., the local demolition and building materials’ reclaimers, dismantled it and cleared the site. Soon afterwards, West Wiltshire District Council’s environmental committee announced that they had allocated £150,000 towards a brick building on the site of the old cafe. This is to be purpose designed for joint use by the town’s Citizen Advice Bureau and the Warminster Tourist Information Centre, who will have the premises rent free. Both are currently operating in cramped conditions: the C.A.B. is in Curfew Cottage, behind St. Laurence’s Church, and the T.I.C. is just off the foyer of Warminster Library.
The building will give the C.A.B. a new office, three interview rooms for dealing with enquiries, a waiting room with space for those with pushchairs and prams, plus office accommodation for the manager and the financial adviser. The T.I.C. will benefit from a bigger display area than they have at the moment and more freedom with regards when they want to offer their services to the public. In their present base they have to adhere to the opening hours of the Library which is not open on Wednesdays and Sundays.