Saturday 13th September 2025
At dannyhowell net we don’t always go for the obvious when it comes to preserving photographs of Warminster. Here’s a prime example of an unusual view but it does show something that might have otherwise gone unrecorded.
It’s a photograph taken in 1995, of the view south-west from the footbridge at Warminster Railway Station. On the left is the Baden Powell Scout Hut. Adjacent is a building (black sides, white doors and windows, and a grey roof) in the north east corner of the grounds of the Avenue Primary School.
This particular building I’m told was the dining room/ sandwiches room at the Avenue School, where children ate their lunchtime sandwiches. The building burnt down in a fire (started accidentally) circa 1997. In the background can be seen the drill tower at Warminster Fire Station.
I suppose the questions we should be asking about this pic are: Did you attend the Avenue School during the 1980s and early 1990s up to 1997 and if so did you eat sandwiches in the building pictured? What was in your favourite sandwiches? Who prepared the sandwiches? Who were the “dinner ladies”? You get the gist, we’re trying to record an alternative history – the nitty gritty – of our hometown and what really went on.
