Category: Community (Warminster)

Topics about organisations and activities in Warminster.

Opening of The Boys’ Orphanage, Warminster

From The Warminster Parish Magazine, May 1869:

On the 24th [April 1869], the Eve of the Festival of S. Mark, the Boys’ Orphanage in Silver Street, was opened with a short service in the House to invoke the blessing of Almighty God on the undertaking.

The Orphanage opened with two little orphan boys of Warminster, and the same afternoon a third orphan was admitted from Wootton-under-Edge. The boys attend the national school.

This Orphanage, which is a part of the Orphanage of Pity, is on exactly the same principle as the girls’ orphanage. Admission is free. No one will be asked to support it. Prayer and faith will be exercised on its behalf. There will be a common fund for the two houses.

We gratefully record that there has been quite sufficient money in hand to furnish the boys’ orphanage. The fittings of the Prayer Room are the gift of a friend. All the ironmongery also was given by one who has the care of the orphans much at heart.

Another little orphan girl of Warminster has been admitted this month, into the Girls’ Orphanage, making our number in that house seventeen.

Sentenced To Four Months Hard Labour

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 26th September 1868:

George Ashley, labourer in the employ of Mr Robert Coles, of Middleton Farm, sentenced to four months hard labour for stealing a sack of wheat, valued 30 shillings, from his employer on 11th September.

The Reredos At St. John’s Church, Boreham, Warminster

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 20th June 1868:

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St. John’s Church. The Vicar authorised the completion of the central compartment of the Reredos lately erected at the Church. The subject is the Crucifixion, but the original design has been altered by the introduction of a group of figures. It is a worthy monument to the liberality of the donor, George Temple Esq., of Bishopstrow House.

A Remarkable Case At Warminster Workhouse

The Warminster Herald, Saturday 23rd May 1868, reported:

For several weeks past a most singular case of illness in the workhouse at Warminster has been attracting the anxious attention of the medical gentlemen of this town. The facts of the case are briefly these – On the evening of the 9th of April a tramp was admitted to the casual ward, and on the following morning he again started on his course. Very soon afterwards he was taken back, being unable to walk, and the attention of the doctor, P. Grubb Esq., was called to his case.

Soon afterwards his extremities became discoloured, and in time his nose, hands, and feet grew quite black, and the flesh begun to fall away, becoming quite dry, and leaving the bones and sinews the same. He gradually got worse, and on Thursday, 16th inst., had one of his arms taken off. It is expected he will shortly be compelled to have the other arm as well as both his feet amputated.

He has been visited by two most eminent physicians, who say, as do our local medical men, that they never before saw such a case. About four years since the man was in in the Hasler Hospital, when he suffered severely from frost-bite.

The Orphanage Of Pity, Warminster

From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, April 1868:

The Orphanage Of Pity, which was opened on the 1st of last November, now contains eight fatherless and motherless girls. They are supported entirely by voluntary unasked donations of those who feel with the Vicar that children circumstanced as they are should not be left only to the workhouse. The little house in Church Street was partly furnished before it was opened, but furnished only as the offerings were given for the purpose, nor throughout has anything been bought until the money has been given that is to pay for it. Hitherto we have to thank God. He has sent always sufficient for the immediate wants. When the quarterly rent-day arrived the rent was ready. Many kind friends have arisen whose hearts He has stirred up to help. In addition to money gifts there have been most useful and acceptable presents in kind – clothing, coals, wood, straw, flour, cheese, joints of meat, pies, puddings and potatoes, besides articles of furniture. Any, the smallest offerings, may be sent to the Vicarage for the orphans.

Students At The Mission House, Warminster

From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, No.3, Vol.5, March 1868:

Mission House. – The students at the Mission House returned on the 1st of February, and four new students were admitted, as probationers; viz. –

John William Corbet and James Colbeck, from Yorkshire;

Zacharias Vallespinosa, from Spain;

and Arthur Charles Waghorne, from London.

This makes the number in all ten, as Richard Stead is still absent from illness and may not return.

One more proposes coming at Easter and one at Midsummer.

Rifle Volunteers At Afternoon Service

From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, March 1868:

On Septuagesima Sunday our Rifle Volunteers attended the afternoon service in the Parish Church [St. Denys], where a sermon from Genesis ii, 15, was preached to them by their chaplain the Vicar. They mustered seventy, a better attendance than there has been for some time at a church parade. We must hope that the proposal to hold a Camp during the summer on our downs may be carried out. Few things are more calculated to add to the general efficiency of the force than their thus embarking for a few days in a soldier’s life.

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