Category: Tynings, The (in Warminster)

Over 60 Years Ago At The Tynings, Warminster

Saturday 7th September 2013

Richard Dombkowski writes ~

Hi Danny,
Here is another photograph from our family album. It was taken at what was No.5 The Tynings (now Bradley Road), Warminster. The number of the house is different today. It could be No.56 Bradley Road but I’m not sure.

In the picture are, left to right: Les Plank (my uncle); Elsie Hitchings (my grandmother); Gwen Dombkowski (my mother); Phyllis Plank (my auntie); and John Hitchings (my uncle). With them is Mickey the dog.

We do not know the exact date when this photo was taken but we think it must be the late 1940s, early 1950s, most likely about 1949/1950.

Danny Howell replies ~

Thank you again Richard for sharing another old photograph. It’s a wonderful group photo. We wonder who the photographer was?

Bradley Road, Warminster, 1980

In Christ Church, Warminster, The First 150 Years, a booklet published in October 1980, to celebrate the 150th birthday of Christ Church, the Rev. John C. Day (Vicar) wrote:

. . . on the far south of the parish, in Bradley Road, known by older folk as The Tynings. Here on the left hand side [south side] was the old Isolation Hospital now converted into an Ambulance Station. The locals tell me there was an even earlier Disease Hospital or ‘Pest House’ as they were once called, in Cannimore Woods.