Category: About Warminster: Station Road

Signs Up And Lights On At Barnardo’s Collection Centre

Sunday 17th November 2013

The signs are up and the lights are on
at the Barnado’s Donation Centre and shop
adjacent the Waitrose supermarket
at Station Road, Warminster.

Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Sunday 17th November 2013.

The signage is up.

Fixtures and fittings inside.

Books on the shelves.

It will not be long before this donation
centre is open for business.

Cats In Care Spring Sale

Saturday 21st April 2012

Cats In Care held a Spring Sale/Bazaar on the
morning of Saturday 21st April 2012.
Danny Howell went along with his camera
to capture a few moments.

The venue was the Red Cross Hut,
at Station Road, Warminster.

Marian Newman, seated right,
ran the bric-a-brac stall.

Taking donations at the door:
Jennifer Butt and Philip Alford.

The scene inside the Red Cross Hut.

Daphne Perkins made some superb cakes.

Betty Read jokes that the cakes
are so good she should eat them
before the customers buy them all.

Betty Read having a laugh for the
benefit of Danny Howell’s camera.

Peter Gillbanks was selling raffle tickets.

Phyllis Hutchings and Joyce Ingram
have their raffle tickets ready.

Maureen Nix, of Chapel Street, Warminster,
with the cheque for the £72.50 she raised
for Cats In Care previous to the Spring Sale.
She also gathered the same amount for the
dogs’ charity Waggy Tails.

There may have been a cold nip in the air
but the sun shone on the bric-a-brac stalls outside.

Retail Unit To Let Adjacent Waitrose, Warminster

Sunday 15th April 2012


Retail unit space measuring 3,830 square feet
(which can be subdivided)
is to let adjacent the new Waitrose
store at Station Road, Warminster.

All enquiries should be made to 
Henry Boot Developments,
telephone 01454 275261
or CBRE, telephone 0117 943 5757.

The retail unit to let adjacent the 
Waitrose store at Station Road, Warminster.

Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Sunday 15th April 2012.

Accessing The New Waitrose, Warminster

Thursday 29th March 2012

The vehicular access to the new Waitrose supermarket
in Warminster is off Station Road and partly occupies
what was once a narrower road
to the former Dents glove factory (the factory was demolished
to make way for Waitrose) and also what were the premises of
Warminster Press (printing works)
which were also demolished to open up the location.

Pedestrians can also access the store this way too,
using the new pavement, and there is another access
(for pedestrians only) at Fairfield Road.

These photographs taken by Danny Howell, at lunchtime on
Thursday 29th March 2012 (the day Waitrose in Warminster
first opened for trading) show customers arriving and leaving
in cars and on foot. The pavement at the Station Road junction
has been widened, and landscaping with shrubs enhances the entrance.
There’s even a splendid new seat for weary shoppers
to rest awhile before heading home with their shopping bags.

Scott & Smith’s Corn Store, Warminster

Adrian Phillips, in the book The Warminster Trail, compiled for the Warminster Festival 1989, and published by Aris & Phillips Ltd., wrote:

The . . . semi-circular building, No.69, on the north side of the Market Place [Warminster], was Scott & Smith’s corn and seed store.

On the side of the building, in Station Road, you can see bricked-up openings. These were the entrances for the sacks of grain being handled from carts straight into the building.

Since 1935 it has been the Masonic Hall.

Daniella George, Children’s Wear And Maternity Wear, 1 Station Road, Warminster, In 1987

1 Station Road, Warminster, pictured in 1987 when it was the shop of Daniella George, children’s wear and maternity wear.

The photograph was taken by Danny Howell.

The red brick building partially seen on the far left is Warminster Press (printers), later demolished to make the vehicular access road to the Waitrose supermarket car park.

In the background, on the right, can be seen part of Dents glove factory, later demolished to also make way for the building of Waitrose.

No.1 Station Road, Warminster, is now (2017) the premises of Wylye Valley Dentistry.