Thursday 11th September 2025
Danny Howell writes:
The Job Centre, at 28 Station Road, Warminster, photographed by me in July 1986. The windows feature adverts for the ‘Restart’ programme. To the left is the Kwik Save car park. The car parked by the Job Centre entrance to the left, is an Austin Metro (registration number B327 DHR). Behind the car can be seen a gap between the walls of the Kwik Save supermarket and the Job Centre, along which, if you were lean enough, you could get through to the Gateway supermarket customer car park behind the Job Centre.
The building which was the Job Centre, in more recent years, has been in the hands of the Avenue Surgery. Warminster folks, older than me, will recall that back in the 1940s and 1950s this building was Ossie Coward’s furniture shop. My parents, when they first set up home together, got their furniture from Ossie Coward. I’ve got a feeling that he lived in or was from Sutton Veny, but not sure about that. And I am pleased to say I have a photograph (a black and white one of course) of Ossie Coward’s furniture shop in my archive of collected old photographs.