Thursday 22nd September 2011
An ‘EIIR” post box is built into a brickÂ
surround on thecorner of Boreham CloseÂ
and Boreham Road, Warminster,
near 21 Boreham Road (Scott’s Cottage).
Front view of the post box which faces south.
A more close-up view of the post box.
Collections:
Monday to Friday 5.15 p.m.
Saturday 12 Noon.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
at 1.28 p.m. onÂ
Thursday 22nd September 2011.
Tuesday 15th August 2000
Roy Grist, senior postman at Warminster Post Office, retired today (Tuesday 15th August 2000) after a 50 year career with the Royal Mail.
September 1998
For fast and friendly service
Sandra and Curt Eijvergard welcome you to
Boreham Post Office & Stores.
All your postal needs, green-groceries, groceries,
drinks, cards, small presents, fresh bread,
sandwiches, etc.
Just past Marsh & Chalfont.
Easy parking outside the shop.
Telephone 212161.
Monday 6th February 1995
Warminster Post Office transferred from the old Savings Bank building on the corner of Station Road and East Street to the premises of Martins the newsagents at the Three Horseshoes Mall, on Monday 6th February 1995.
Danny Howell writes:
During 1991 Warminster Post Office, in the old Savings Bank building, on the corner of Station Road and East Street, was closed for five months while extensive internal repair work was carried out. Access for the public was also changed, from the doorway facing the Market Place to a doorway on to East Street, where a ramp to allow access for the disabled had been added.
During the repair period, the post office was temporarily housed in a wooden outbuilding erected behind the Post Office, on the waste ground immediately to the east.
The main Post Office was re-opened by Warminster Mayor Peter Gough on Monday 7 October 1991. Branch Manager Keith Fletcher commented “Our customers have been very patient while this essential work was carried out. Now we look forward to welcoming them back.”
In December 1990 Mrs. Stephanie Chandler made the news, with her attempt to get the business rate for Corsley Sub-Post Office reduced. Mrs. Chandler, who rented her home from the Longleat Estate, said the Post Office and Shop was open five mornings a week, but in an effort to lessen the rate she was paying (£400) she had stopped selling grocery items during the previous two months. The District Valuer, Mr. D. Farris, was quoted in the press as saying: “If the size of the shop is reduced, the business rate will be reduced and back-dated to when the alterations were made.”
A note made by Danny Howell during August 1986:
August 1986
The main post office in Warminster is situated on the corner of Station Road and East Street.
There are three sub-post-offices . . . . at Boreham, Fore Street and Silver Street.
August 1986
The main post office in Warminster is situated at the eastern end of the Market Place, on the corner of Station Road and East Street.
There are sub-post offices at Boreham, Fore Street and Silver Street.
Danny Howell writes:
Ernest Warren’s successor as Postmaster at Warminster was Arthur James Bartholomew – a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Bartholomew of Carlton Villa, Portway, Warminster, and uncle of Freddie Bartholomew, the little boy who left Warminster for Hollywood and film star fame.
Arthur James Bartholomew’s appointment as Postmaster at Warminster in 1935 marked his return to the town after an absence of 23 years. He had been at one time a sorting clerk and telegraphist at Warminster Post Office but in 1912 left for the Central Telegraph Office in London. He held several subsequent appointments and prior to coming to Warminster was, from 1926, at the Highbridge Sub-Office, Bridgwater, Somerset.
Mr. Bartholomew resided at 11 Bath Road, Warminster. He left Warminster in July 1940 to be Head Postmaster at Blandford in Dorset. Mr. Read (Post Office Supervisor) continued the duties of Head Postmaster until a successor to Mr. Bartholomew was appointed (W. Smart).
