Tuesday 1st July 2014
Here’s a mystery photo you can maybe help with. This postcard picture was taken by a photographer called Fielder who was based in Warminster years ago. In the lower left corner is a cart signwritten “Radstock Coal”. Radstock coal was regularly delivered in Warminster and surrounding villages. The question is, where did Mr. Fielder take the photo? Is it in Warminster or elsewhere? Do you recognise the houses or the street? Of course, the scene may have changed a bit over the years, but do you know where it was taken? If you do, please contact dannyhowellnet@gmail.com
Andrew Davis was the first person to correctly identify the location of the picture as Emwell Street, Warminster.
Danny Howell writes that the lamp on the right side of the picture is attached to an exterior wall of the Weymouth Arms public house (the pub is off to the right of the picture). On the opposite side of the street to the pub, near where the cart is, was a weighbridge erected in 1848 but damaged in 1943. Fielder’s photographer above was probably taken in the early 1900s when Albert Dewey, a blacksmith who lived and worked opposite the Weymouth Arms, operated the weighbridge. Maybe the cart in the picture had just been weighed.