Wednesday 10th September 2025
Danny Howell writes:
The Joint Social Club at Weymouth Street, Warminster. Pictured in 1987, a year before it closed down. It was demolished and the goods loading and delivery lorries’ parking area for the Safeway supermarket (later Morrisons) was built on the site.
In this photo can be seen signs on the front of the building advertising Ushers Brewery. There are beer barrels by the door. It looks like the top part of the flag pole on the building has broken off and is missing. The tower and spire of the Chapel of St. Lawrence can just be glimpsed behind the trees. The blue Bedford van, registration B390 FHR, on the right of the photo is sign-written ‘Car Mart’ below its windscreen.
I’m sure that those of you of a certain age will recall many of the entertainments that went on at the Joint Social Club, whether it was playing skittles, discos, wedding receptions, variety shows, Carnival Queen competitions, and so on. An abiding memory of mine was a music night held at the Joint Social Club, during which Maurice Gibbs got up and sang High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling). It’s funny what things remain in my mind for years afterwards.