Category: Lob In The Landscape

Information and pictures of mostly rural topics and activities.

Boreham Farm, Warminster, In The Mid-1960s.

Boreham Farm, 
on the east side of Warminster,
pictured in the mid-1960s, 
shortly before it was demolished.

Boreham Road runs left to right off 
the lower edge of the photo,
Boreham Crossroads is just off the 
lower right corner of the  photo, 
and Woodcock Road can be seen on the right.


The farmhouse and all the farm buildings
were demolished and bulldozed flat circa 1968.
All the rubble was spread out and buried
under what became the 
Kingdown School Sports Field
(St. George’s Playing Field).

The thatched cottages, near the top right corner
of the picture, remained untouched.

Tom Bazley was the last to farm Boreham Farm.

Mr D.J. Alford Of Bugley Barton, Warminster, Registers Land In Broadstone, Dorset

From the London Gazette, 4th February 1964:

H.M. LAND REGISTRY
The following land is about to be registered. Any objections should be addressed to ” H.M. Land Registry, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London W.C.2 ” before the 18th day of February 1964

Freehold

(30) Coombe Croft and land adjoining, Dunyeats Road, Broadstone, Poole, Dorset, by D. J. Alford, Bugley Barton, Warminster, Wilts.

Oliver Kite – Summer in Kite’s Country. Weed-Cutting And Fly Fishing On The River Wylye At Fisherton Delamere During The 1960s

Posted on youtube by Bill Billy, 8th April 2020:

Oliver Kite – weed-cutting and fly fishing on the River Wylye at Fisherton Delamere. Extremely rare footage taken from the long deleted video of Ollie’s only existing TV shows at Southern Television in the 1960s. Completely captivating and charming short films of a master countryman, broadcaster, naturalist, writer and fisherman – a great influence on those fortunate to have met and worked with him. He (along with producer Ted Channell) were among the pioneers of today’s popular nature television programmes.

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