Community (Warminster) – Page 207

Thorough Repair For The Parish Organ, Warminster

The Warminster Miscellany, 1 December 1862, reported:

The Organ in the Parish Church. – On Tuesday Nov. 11th, a public meeting was held, in the Town Hall, with reference to the condition of this noble instrument, when it was unanimously resolved to have it put into thorough repair, and to improve it by the addition of new keys, horizontal bellows, pedal-board, pedal-pipes, &c., &c.

The work has been intrusted to Mr. Willis, who undertakes its execution for £115, nearly the whole of which sum has been subscribed.

Warminster Common Close Chapel To Be Renovated

The Warminster Miscellany, 1 October 1862, reported:

Common-Close Chapel. – We learn from The Somerset And Wilts Journal that at a meeting of the subscribers to this chapel, it was decided to re-pew, paint, and otherwise renovate this place of worship. The repairs are contracted for at the amount of £155.

Harvest Thanks At Christ Church, Warminster

The Warminster Miscellany, 1 October 1862, reported:

Thanksgiving Services For The Harvest. – On the 21st ult., [21 September 1862] sermons inculcating a grateful acknowledgement of the blessings of Divine providence conferred in the recent harvest, were preached at Christ Church, by the Rev. R.R. Hutton; the church was very appropriately and elegantly decorated for the occasion.

Annual Report Of Reformatory Schools 1862

The Warminster Miscellany, 1st October 1862, reported:

REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.
Mr Sydney Turner, the inspector appointed to visit the reformatory schools of Great Britain, has presented his annual report. He has to state that the number of young offenders in the 62 certified reformatories increased in the course of the year 1861 from 3803 to 4337, including 186 placed out on license and not yet finally discharged. Of the results of reformatories in the diminution and prevention of crime, he has to report that, after making allowance for unknown and doubtful cases, it may be taken as well ascertained that the treatment is successful in reforming at least 70 per cent.; and, considering that the system has had to deal at first with the more hardened offenders, the proportion may be expected to increase. Of the whole 1031 discharges in the year, only 18 boys or girls were sent away as hopelessly incorrigible; 90 went to sea, 22 enlisted, 110 emigrated, 660 went to service or employment or to the care of friends, 27 died, 15 were discharged on the ground of health, 89 absconded and were not recovered. The expenditure was £98,638; the Treasury payments for maintenance amounted to £66,374; the parents’ payments were only £2439; contributions from the rates produced £4750; contributions from voluntary inmates, £975; subscriptions and legacies, £14,136.

Decrease Of Crime In Wiltshire

From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 12th July 1862:

Decrease Of Crime In Wiltshire.
It is a striking fact and worthy of observation, as showing the vast improvement which has taken place in this county in the moral and social conduct of the people, that whereas in the summer of 1854 no less than 72 prisoners were taken from the Devizes prison to the Sessions at Warminster, there were last week only nine prisoners taken from the same gaol to the same Sessions; and those for offences of a comparatively trivial nature.

Warminster’s Angel Inn To Be Sold By Auction

The Warminster Miscellany, 1 May 1862, advert:

“VERY DESIRABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY, WARMINSTER. – TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, by MR. BEDFORD, at the Bath Arms Inn, Warminster, on MONDAY, the 19^th day of MAY, 1862, at Six o’Clock in the Evening, – subject to such Conditions as will then be produced, –

All that Capital MESSUAGE or DWELLING-HOUSE Situate at the Top of High-Street in Warminster, formerly known as the Angel Inn, – comprising numerous Sitting and Bed Rooms, Servants’ Rooms, and commodious Offices, extensive range of Stabling, Corn-Stores, large Yard, Walled-in Garden, and TWO EXCELLENT PADDOCKS of RICH PASTURE LAND, the whole containing by admeasurement 3a, 2r. 36p., and now in the occupation of Mr. DUNN, as Tenant thereof.

The above Property will be sold subject to a Lease for 21 years, commencing from the 29^th day of September 1855, which may be determined by the Tenant at Michaelmas, 1869, at a yearly Rent of £65, which Lease will be produced in the Auction-room.

This Land and Premises present a very good opportunity for investment, being well situated for business, and having a Way at the back leading to Weymouth-street and Christ Church. The Tenant will show the Property, and further particulars may be obtained of the Auctioneer, or of MR. CHAPMAN, Solicitor, Warminster.”

To Be Let: The White Swan, East Street, Warminster

Advertisement in the Warminster Miscellany And Local Advertiser, issue dated 1st May 1862:

To Innkeepers. To be let, with immediate possession – “The White Swan” in East Street, Warminster. The Stock-in-Trade to be taken at valuation. For particulars apply to Mr. Prangley, Solicitor, Heytesbury.

Six Deeds Relating To The Yew Tree Inn, Boreham, 1820-1862

Six deeds relating to the Yew Tree Inn, Boreham, Warminster – Parties: Fleming, Temple, Prangley, Thring, Dredge, Axford, Davies – can be found in the archives at the Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN. They date 1820 – 1862. The reference number is 1075/001/129.

Newest Designs For Young Valentines

Advertisement in The Warminster Miscellany, 1 February 1862:

Young Men & Maidens of Warminster and its Vicinity!

DO YOU WANT A VALENTINE?

If you do, send to Sidney L. Payne’s, 4a John Street, Edgware Road, London, who has purchased a large Stock of the newest designs, from 1d. to 21s.

Country Orders promptly attended to on receipt of postage stamps.

Miss Fox, Music Instructor

Advert in The Warminster Miscellany, 2 September 1861:

Miss Fox begs to announce to her Friends that she has recommenced her Instruction of her Pupils in Music, and that she is desirous of adding to their number, her time at present not being fully occupied. West Street, Warminster.