Category: Community (Warminster)

Topics about organisations and activities in Warminster.

No Access And No Dogs At The Back Gate Of St. George’s RC School, Warminster

Thursday 7th February 2013

The gate at the rear of St. George’s R.C. School at Woodcock Road, Warminster, (which gives access to St. George’s Playing Fields) photographed by Danny Howell on Thursday 7th February 2013.

Signs on the gate state “No access for unauthorised personel” and No dogs except guide dogs.”

There Ought To Be More To Life Than Work And Oblivion

Tuesday 5th February 2013

Warminster Civic Trust, on their website, have the following words to say about recreation facilities in Warminster:

“Thankfully, regimental punch-ups seem to have become a thing of the past, now that our soldiers have more obvious and real foes to concentrate on. Nonetheless, if you are a young man with time and money on your hands – in the employ of Her Majesty or not – you’ll be hard-pressed to find anywhere in Warminster to spend either. Except ‘the pub’. We’re great fans of boozers, and are sponsored by The Organ Inn – definitely Warminster’s most civilized licensed premises – but there ought to be more to life than work and oblivion. Warminster ought to be able to support a permanent cinema (The Athenaeum is excellent, but intermittent) and a civic sports/leisure centre (some of us don’t equate sport with leisure). Our library is excellent, but situated at the end of a dreary shopping precinct populated by fag-smoking trolls: a deterrent to all but the hardiest bibliophiles.”

Be My Valentine And Adopt A Wild Flower

Tuesday 29th January 2013

Plantlife, a charity based at Rollestone Street, Salisbury, is asking romantics and suitors to think differently this Valentine’s Day (14th February). They suggest that instead of giving cut flowers (which only last a short time) we choose an alternative gift, namely the adoption of a wildflower or similar sponsorship of an acre of land on one of Plantlife’s twenty-three nature reserves.

A spokesman for the charity says: “Imagine how romantic it would be to take your valentine for a walk through a field full of poppies that’s dedicated in their name. You will receive a certificate and a gorgeous framed picture of the meadow you’ve adopted.” The proceeds raised from the sale of these unusual gifts will help the work being done by Plantlife which is preserving wild flowers for future generations. 

Great British Railway Journeys, Salisbury To Castle Cary With Michael Portillo

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.

Great British Railway Journeys ~ Michael Portillo Helps Clean Westbury White Horse

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.

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