Community (Warminster) – Page 122

Sign On The Baptist Church Hall, North Row, Warminster

A sign on the Baptist Church Hall,
at North Row, Warminster,
photographed by Danny Howell
on the afternoon of Saturday 21st April 2012.

The sign reads:

Warminster Baptist Church
www.warminsterbaptist.org.uk
Pastor: Rev. Roy A. Bedford. Tel: 01985 218212
Sunday: Breakfast 09.20 am.
Morning Worship 10.30 am.
Sunday School and Creche
Evening Worship (1st and 3rd Sundays) 6 pm.
Midweek Bible Studies, Prayer Meetings,
Parent and Toddler Group and Youth Activities.
A Church where Everyone is Someone
and Jesus Christ is Lord.

Coffee Morning For The Children’s Society

Saturday 21st April 2012

On Saturday 21st April 2012, from 10.00 a.m. to 12 noon,
the Warminster branch of The Children’s Society
held a coffee morning at the Athenaeum,
High Street, Warminster.

Danny Howell went along with his camera
to witness the fundraising, which included a tombola,
a raffle, book stall and refreshments.

Some of the Committee Members,
left to right:
Carole Owen, Margaret Moon,
Ruth Merritt, and Joyce Sweet.

Overseeing the raffle:
Ruth Moore (left) and Ruth Merritt.

Running the tombola: Gerald Sweet.

Keeping busy with an urn: Christine Robins.

Time for coffee and biscuits.
Young people supporting The Children’s Society:
Kyle Nicholas and Charlie Bath, from Southampton.

Enjoying a cup of coffee and having a chat.
Senior Citizens supporting The Children’s Society:
Left, Edna Godley, from Morley Field, Warminster,
and right, Jean Thornton, from Heronslade, Warminster.

Spreading the word: Left, Joyce Sweet
and her Children’s Society colleague, Mo.

Literature explaining the role of the Children’s Society
was available for perusal or to take home.

One of the ways anyone can support the
Children’s Society, is to become the holder
of a box for a year, in which you, your family
and friends can put your loose change,
so that it can be donated to the Children’s Society.

To become the recipient of a box for this purpose,
telephone Joyce Sweet on 01985 216845
or email Margaret Moon: magmoon@talktalk.net

Cats In Care Spring Sale

Saturday 21st April 2012

Cats In Care held a Spring Sale/Bazaar on the
morning of Saturday 21st April 2012.
Danny Howell went along with his camera
to capture a few moments.

The venue was the Red Cross Hut,
at Station Road, Warminster.

Marian Newman, seated right,
ran the bric-a-brac stall.

Taking donations at the door:
Jennifer Butt and Philip Alford.

The scene inside the Red Cross Hut.

Daphne Perkins made some superb cakes.

Betty Read jokes that the cakes
are so good she should eat them
before the customers buy them all.

Betty Read having a laugh for the
benefit of Danny Howell’s camera.

Peter Gillbanks was selling raffle tickets.

Phyllis Hutchings and Joyce Ingram
have their raffle tickets ready.

Maureen Nix, of Chapel Street, Warminster,
with the cheque for the £72.50 she raised
for Cats In Care previous to the Spring Sale.
She also gathered the same amount for the
dogs’ charity Waggy Tails.

There may have been a cold nip in the air
but the sun shone on the bric-a-brac stalls outside.

Update On The Chalk Streams Of Wessex

The next meeting of the Warminster Branch of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust will be at the Village Hall, Sutton Veny (please note the change of venue for this meeting only), on Monday 16th April 2012, starting at 7.30 p.m. The speaker will be David Kelly of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. He will give an update on the Wessex Chalk Streams Project and its positive benefits to Wiltshire’s flora and fauna. Admission £2.50 (£1 for under 18-year-olds), to include refreshments. Non-members most welcome.

To see film clips, visit:

Wessex Chalk Streams Project – YouTube
â–º 3:15â–º 3:15	www.youtube.com/watch?v=4goBfNnmS4s22 Apr 2010 – 3 min – Uploaded by wessexwaterwebmaster An exciting environmental project saw a stretch of the River Avon within the Wessex Water region reenergised …

Kingdown School Acquires Bungalow At 46a Woodcock Road, Warminster

Sunday 15th April 2012

Yesterday, we posted some photographs showing
Tim Davis commencing work on the site of the
military bungalow at 46a Woodcock Road,
Warminster. The Ministry of Defence
no longer require the bungalow as a residence
for disabled personnel, now that new accommodation
blocks have been built at Battlesbury Barracks
nearby, so they have given Kingdown School
(on the opposite side of Woodcock Road)
the use of the bungalow gratis, for educational use.

Danny Howell returned to the location this morning
(15th April) and took some more photographs
to share via www.dannyhowell.net

The bungalow is on the corner of Woodcock Road
and the road that gives access to
Woodcock Trading Estate.

The gate and the spindly specimens of hedge
which have been grubbed out.

View looking up Woodcock Road,
towards the town centre.

Signs which stood on the corner of Woodcock Road
and the entrance road into the
Woodcock Trading Estate,
advertising businesses on the trading estate,
have been taken up to allow a new fence to be erected.

The gift of use by the Ministry Of Defence to
Kingdown School is very good news.

Maybe the trading estate business signs will be
erected in due course?

View from Woodcock Trading Estate to Woodcock Road.

View from Kingdown School,
across Woodcock Road, to the bungalow.

Warminster Highbury Youth Football Club Needs Girls

14th April 2012

Warminster Highbury Youth Football Club is looking for female footballers. So, the Club is putting on, completely free, football sessions for girls at the Highbury ground, Woodcock Road, Warminster, between 1.00 p.m. and 3.00 p.m. on Saturday 28th April 2012, Saturday 12th May 2012, and Saturday 19th May 2012.

The sessions are open to any and all girls who want to come along and see if they like it and can maybe impress the Club with their skills (don’t worry though about having lots of football knowledge or skills as the sessions are mainly about having fun).

Aimed at 4 year olds to 11 year olds, but older girls can come along to discuss joining Highbury Senior Girls. The Club says it will never turn any girl away. The Club says they just want girls to come and have fun playing a great sport, but if you turn out to be the newest female Messi, then so be it, but there’s no pressure, just fun.

Warminster Highbury Youth F.C. is an F.A. Charter Standard Club, which means all managers and coaches are Football trained, Enhanced CRB cleared, and have attended F.A. Child Protection and First Aid courses. Coaches are also wanted. For further details about the sessions for girls or becoming a coach at Highbury, please contact Michelle Lawson, email: michelle@warminsterhighburyyouth.com or telephone 01985 300065 (answer machine, or visit the club website: www.warminsterhighburyyouth.com

Kingdown School, Warminster, Acquire Use Of Army Bungalow For Gratis

Saturday 14th April 2012

The Ministry of Defence
no longer require the bungalow at
46a Woodcock Road, Warminster,
as a residence for disabled personnel,
now that new accommodation blocks have been
built at Battlesbury Barracks nearby,
so they have given Kingdown School
(on the opposite side of Woodcock Road)
the use of the bungalow gratis, for educational use.

Danny Howell went along with his camera on the morning of Saturday 14th April 2012, to see Tim Davis use a JCB to remove the old wire mesh fence (which was sadly much the worse for wear) from around the frontage of the property.

A new wooden fence is to be erected in due course.

Some old spindly wych elm bushes were also removed.

Tim Davis may be contacted for Plant Hire at
5 Church Farm Cottages,
Longbridge Deverill, BA12 7DG,
telephone: 7774 225404.

Work in progress.

One of the pair of gates at the entrance to the property.

The 46a sign on the gate.

JCB buckets.

Some of the grubbed out greenery and fence posts.

View from the north-west corner of the property.

The junction of Woodcock Road and the
entrance road to Woodcock Trading estate.

Kingdown School is on the opposite side of
Woodcock Road.

You may just be able to see Nick Trimby,
crossing the road from Kingdown School,
behind the JCB, in this picture.

Nick Trimby asks Tim how the work is progressing.

Nick Trimby, from Kingdown School,
is pleased that the
Ministry Of Defence have allowed Kingdown
the use of the bungalow for free.

Tim said he was due to start the work on Monday
but came today while the students from
Kingdown School
are at home, safely away from the site.

The work has got off to a splendid start.

Tim gets on with the job.

And a good job he was making of it too!

What a wonderful piece of kit the JCB is?

Tim Davis may be contacted for Plant Hire at
5 Church Farm Cottages,
Longbridge Deverill, BA12 7DG,
telephone: 7774 225404.

View across Woodcock Road.

Tim at the controls.

The JCB at work.

View along Woodcock Road.

The gift of the use of the bungalow
for Kingdown School is very good news.

George Humphrey Viney ~ Chorister For Over 65 Years, And His Wife Annie ~ A Life Long Worshipper

A gravestone in St. Denys’ Churchyard, The Minster, Warminster, photographed by Danny Howell on Tuesday 10th April 2012.

The inscription reads: In Loving Memory of George Humphrey Viney. At rest 28th August 1961 Aged 84 years. A Chorister of this Church for over 65 years. Also Annie His beloved wife At rest 4th December 1961 Aged 83 years. A Worshipper in this Church all her life.

Dear Wife And Faithful Helpmate

A gravestone in St. Denys’ Churchyard,
The Minster, Warminster,
photographed by Danny Howell
on Tuesday 10th April 2012.

The wording reads:

Henceforth we live
in Loving Remembrance of
Alice Alcock (of Byne House).
For 60 years the dear wife
and faithful helpmate of
Charles Alcock
Headmaster of Warminster Grammar School.
Beloved by her husband,
Children, Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren,
The pupils of the School
And by all who knew her.
God called her Decr. 19th 1918
in her 83rd year.

Also of the above named
Charles Alcock
God called him Novr. 3rd 1922
In his 89th year.