Wednesday 4th May 1988
The book Remember Warminster, Volume Two, edited by Danny Howell, published by Bedeguar Books, October 1994, includes the edited transcript of a tape-recorded interview Danny Howell made with Albert Elloway (born 19th May 1907 – died 4th January 1994).
In that interview, Albert Elloway said:
“When I was about 18 months old, a babe in arms, my family left Lower Bread Street and moved to 37a Chapel Street. Actually, it was a lane off Chapel Street, called Trowese Lane or Shovese Lane. Some people called it Trowbridge Lane. It wasn’t signposted and don’t ask me where the name Trowbridge Lane comes from. Us locals knew it as Trowese Lane.”
“Trowese Lane connected Chapel Street with the allotments [the Tynings Allotments] at the top. We lived in one of two houses at the top of the lane. The lane petered out at the allotments, about 20 yards past the houses. Those two houses are still there. I’ll tell you who used to have them – Ted Gooch. He lives up Portway now.”
“I lived at Trowese Lane with my family until I was 14 or 15. The owner of the cottages when we lived there was Oliver Cundick, the baker. When we moved out, Bert Turner, I think his name was Bert, moved into there. He was a relation of Cundick’s. We moved from Trowbridge Lane to Lyme Avenue in the early 1920s, about 1923.”