Friday 16th August 1991
Women up to the age of 40 are to be invited to take part in this year’s Warminster Carnival Queen competition, and a holiday for two in Paris awaits the winner.
The wider age range is to encourage more entrants to the competition, and was the idea of a new working party set up to revamp the annual event. The working party is made up of Mrs. Cathy Day, Mr. Danny Howell, and Mrs. Jane Owens.
Competition organiser Mrs. Owens said: “We have opened the competition up to girls and ladies aged 16 to 40. We are looking for someone with a good personality to represent carnival throughout the year.”
Another change to previous years is to open the competition to a wider catchment area, including the surrounding parishes of: Warminster, Bapton, Bishopstrow, Boyton, Brixton Deverill, Chapmanslade, Chitterne, Codford, Corsley, Corton, Crockerton, Fisherton Delamere, Heytesbury, Hill Deverill, Horningsham, Kilmington, Kingston Deverill, Knook, Longbridge Deverill, Maiden Bradley, Monkton Deverill, Norton Bavant, Norton Ferris, Sherrington, Stockton, Sutton Veny, Tytherington, Upton Lovell, Upton Scudamore and Wylye.
The carnival queen crowning ceremony will form a half-hour interlude in a dance to be held at Kingdown School, Warminster, on Friday 27th September 1991.
The holiday prize is courtesy of Baker Dolphin and C&M Travel of Warminster.
The new queen’s first official engagement will be the town’s annual carnival procession on Saturday 26th October 1991.