Saturday 14th September 2013
The Flog It programme on BBC1 tomorrow afternoon (Sunday 15th September 2013), which is presented by Paul Martin of Seend, is a repeat of the programme filmed at Warminster, when people took along their antiques and valuables to the Civic Centre, to have them valued by experts Kate Bliss and David Fletcher. The selected objects were taken to auctioneers Henry Aldridge’s salesrooms in Devizes. The programme starts at 3.30 p.m.
Monday 1st July 2013
Presenter Paul Martin and experts Michael Baggott, Mark Stacey and David Fletcher, will be among the team when the antiques and collectables BBC tv programme Flog It comes to Longleat House, near Warminster, BA12 7NW, on Thursday 18th July 2013, from 9.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Entry to Flog It is free but access to Longleat House, the Safari Park and the Adventure Playground is not included as part of the Flog It event ~ standard admission charges apply to those attractions. Persons participating in Flog It can bring along a maximum of three items for valuation. For further details visit www.bbc.co.uk/flogit or email: flogit@bbc.co.uk or telephone 0117 9747839.
Sunday 24th March 2013
A television aerial around a wrapped-up
chimney of a flat-roofed bungalow at
Sambourne Road, Warminster.
The photograph was taken by Danny Howell
on Sunday 24th March 2013.
Friday 22nd February 2013:
Secret Dealers, the ITV show about antiques and collectables, is looking for people in Wiltshire who want to take part in the television programme. To qualify you must have at least 12 quality antiques or collectable items. For further details telephone 0117 9707674 or email: secretdealers@rdftelevision.com
Tuesday 29th January 2013
Michael Portillo continues the latest of his Great British Railway Journeys, from Paddington to Newton Abbot, tonight on BBC2 at 6.30 p.m., with the second (of the five stages this week, Monday to Friday), which takes him from Salisbury in Wiltshire to Castle Cary in Somerset. Along the way he takes time out to see Stonehenge.
Monday 28th January 2013
Michael Portillo, in one of his Great British Railway Journeys, shown on BBC2 at 6.30 p.m. today, travelled from Paddington to Warminster, in the first of five stages that will take him to Newton Abbot. His first port of call in Wiltshire was at Westbury.
Michael Portillo got off the train
at Westbury Railway Station.
Michael made his way up to Westbury White Horse,
a chalk figure carved in the escarpment
near the Bratton Castle Iron Age hill fort.
He was told by local people that the horse
commemorates the Battle of Ethandune
but its origins are obscure.
This lady said she lived in one of the villages
and she told Michael some information
about the horse.
Michael was also told how the horse used
to be cleaned in the past.
Michael abseiled down the monument
to help with the latest clean-up.
Afterwards, Michael caught a train to Warminster,
where he visited the Pound Street Malthouse.
Monday 28th January 2013
Michael Portillo, in this week’s five episodes of Great British Railway Journeys (Monday to Friday, on BBC2, at 6.30 p.m), is travelling from Paddington to Newton Abbot in Devon, with his trusty Victorian Bradshaw’s Guide, comparing then with now.
Tonight, in the enjoyable half hour programme, he did the first stage, 99 miles from the Paddington terminus to Warminster. On the way he made a visit to the former Middlesex County Asylum at Hanwell, where he was not only able to see stored human brains (for research) but was able to handle one. After an overnight stay in Hungerford, he boarded the train again, crossing over the county border into Wiltshire, stopping at Westbury, making his way up to Bratton Castle, to help clean the Westbury White Horse. He then took the train again, to Warminster, where he paid a visit to the Malthouse at Pound Street.
Warminster Railway Station from the air.
Hillbourne Close lower left of picture.
Avenue Primary School and Central Car Park
in topright of the picture.
Michael Portillo at Warminster Railway Station.
The Pound Street Malthouse from the air.
Pound Street on the left and Pound Row
in the top left corner of the picture.
The Pound Street Malthouse is the sole surviving
working maltings in Warminster.
Robin Appel explained to Michael that the 19th
century method of malting is still continued here.
The attactive garden at the Pound Street Malthouse.
The process includes steeping the barley grain in water,
setting off the process to convert starch into sugar.
Michael wondered how anyone first thought up the process.
A chance to look at the early ledgers.
The railway was used for transporting malt.
Having heard the history it was time to
go and see the malting process.
Robin Appel explains the process to Michael.
The production of malt is manually done.
A fascinating survival of an old tradition.
Robin and Michael watching the ancient craft.
The grain is dragged through with a pronged tool.
Low ceilings and back-breaking work.
Michael had a go at “ploughing” the barley grain,
which saw him bent over and making jerky movements.
Michael Portillo on Platform 2
of Warminster Railway Station.
Leaving for Salisbury.
Warminster Railway Station from the air.
Northfield Industrial Estate in lower left corner.
Hillbourne Close in lower right corner.
Lidl supermarket in top left corner.
Central Car Park in top right corner.
Thursday 24th January 2013
Tomorrow evening (Friday 25th January 2013), at 8.00 p.m., on ITV, in the fourth episode in the current series of Wild Britain, survival expert Ray Mears explores Salisbury Plain.
This part of Wiltshire, rich in archaeology and home to the great stone circle of Stonehenge, is not only the largest area of chalk grassland but is also the habitat for a huge variety of wildlife.
Ray watches roe deer, badgers and brown hares, and gets close up with an invertebrate that depends on the ruts and puddles made by military vehicles on manoeuvres for its very survival.
Ray also gets ornith0logical, with the grey partridges, the corn buntings and the yellowhammers that thrive on Salisbury Plain, and takes a look at the bustard, the world’s heaviest flying bird, which has been reintroduced (it became extinct in England 180 years ago).
Saturday 8th December 2012
Time Team, the archaeology programme presented by Tony Robinson and featuring Phil Harding, has been axed. Carly Hilts has written a piece called ‘Time Team, The Rise And Fall Of A Television Phenomenon’ in Current Archaeology. To read it, click here.
Saturday 22nd September 2012
Tonight, on BBC2 television, at 8.10 p.m., there is a programme in the This World series – Aung San Suu Kyi – a profile of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese politician, who has spent nearly 20 years under house arrest and has become an international symbol of the power of peaceful resistance.
Ang San Suu Kyi is the sister-in-law of Mrs. Lucinda Phillips, of Teddington House, Church Street, Warminster, Wiltshire.
