Some notes compiled by Danny Howell in 1996:
No one travelling along Woodcock Road, Warminster, today can fail to notice the pitch of the former Highbury Football Club – its green open space surrounded by residential development.
Situated on the south side of Woodcock Road, between Woodcock Gardens and Highbury Park, it was formerly part of the Highbury Estate. Prior to 1959 the land now occupied by the football pitch was let by the Teichman family during the summer months to farmer Bert Dowding of Smallbrook Farm. During the winter months Major Teichman allowed Highbury Football Club to use the field for playing football.
At the A.G.M. of Highbury Football Club, held in the Billeric Cafe, High Street, Warminster, on Monday 22 June 1959, Mr Terry Davies, the Club’s Honorary Secretary, referred to the fact that the Club had purchased the field which the Teichman family had allowed them to use as a pitch for a number of years.
Thanks to the careful budget policy of the Honorary Treasurer, Don Spratt; appeals for wise spending by Terry Davies, and Chairman Des Bishop; with “the backing of a fine committee,” Highbury Football Club managed to purchase the ground within two seasons. (Warminster Journal, 17 August 1962).
Having purchased the Woodcock ground, the Club turned their attention to the provision of a building containing dressing rooms. The cost was anticipated at about £300. The site chosen was in the north-west corner of the ground, parallel with Woodcock Road. In late July 1962 members of Highbury Football Club began work on their new 30 feet by 14 feet dressing room building. Working voluntarily on Sundays and weekday evenings, they dug the foundations and connected the drainage arrangements. John Wallis Titt & Co. loaned them a concrete mixer to put down the base. The work was supervised by Terry Davies. Among the volunteers who gave up their leisure time to do the work, including several members of the building trade, were Terry Davies, D. Bishop, D. Spratt, G. Marsh, R. Foreman, D. Clews, H. Foreman, D. Noble, G. Lapham, T. Lapham, I. Pearce, P. Goddard, K. McGuckian, T. Gooding, D. Hinton, R. Lees, B. Collier, Roy York, and Jim Randall. By mid-August 1962 the foundations were complete and work started on the erection of the building above ground level.