Category: Utilities

From Warminster And District Archive magazine, No.2, Spring 1989:

At Your Convenience
The addition of the “super-loo” to Weymouth Street [Warminster], in January 1989, replacing the old style conveniences below pavement level , was met by the majority of Warminster residents with disapproval.

This was not the only change in the town with regards public conveniences. In early February the new toilets in the Central Car Park were completed, and the old block, outside the northern entrance to the Anchor Yard were demolished on Saturday 18th February 1989 by Cooks Demolition & Plant Hire Ltd., of Saltersford Lane, Chippenham.

This leaves just three public conveniences in Warminster – the aforementioned “super-loo” at Weymouth Street; the new block at the Central Car Park; and those at the southern end of the Assembly Rooms in the Western Car Park.

At one time public conveniences existed on the corner of Emwell Street with Sambourne Road (demolished, making way for housing , in 1987); on the corner of Station Road and Fairfield Road (now part of Strode Components factory car park); and there was a gents’ in the Close. near the entrance to what is now the Pratten Hut Yard.