Notes penned by Danny Howell during 1991.
Bleeck’s Field
For many years the Bleeck family owned a piece of pasture between the Avenue and the railway line, immediately south west of Warminster Railway Station. It was appropriately known as Bleeck’s Field.
The Warminster Rose Show was held on this field in July 1881.
At about the beginning of the First World War Mr and Mrs Sam Smart, who moved to Warminster from Trowbridge, acquired the field and used it as a place to buy and sell scrap metal. The Smart family sold the scrap metal business and the site to Drinkwater’s, metal merchants of Trowbridge, in the early 1970s.
Drinkwater’s continued to run a scrap business here until the mid-1980s when they sold out, and a three or four storey block of retirement flats for the elderly has since been built here. These are named Homeminster House and overlook the Railway Station.