Category: Trade and Occupations

Information and pictures for trade, industry, and occupations in Warminster.

The Newly Opened Baptist Chapel At Salisbury

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 4th March 1882:

Messrs. Stent and Awdry, of Warminster, who designed the re-constructed chapel in Brown Street, Salisbury, may be congratulated upon the success of their work. The building forms a pleasing feature in the architecture of the locality, and internally is one of the prettiest edifices of the kind to be found in the country. Mr. Hicks, however, we expect, was not far wrong when he shook his head in incredulity, as to the suggestion that the firm would not on principle design either a theatre or a public house. Architects, like lawyers, are in professional honour bound to accept any commission that is not of an unreasonable or outrageous character. – Wilts County Mirror.

Advance Of Wages At Upton Lovell Cloth Mill

Friday 6th February 1874

From The Western Gazette, issue dated Friday 6th February 1874:

Advance Of Wages At Upton Lovell Cloth Mill

Last week the weavers in the employ of Messrs. J. & H. Hewett, woollen cloth manufacturers, Upton Lovell Mills, applied for an advance of wages, which was acceded to by their employers, to the satisfaction of all.

Isaac Feltham

An advertisement in The Warminster Herald, Saturday 29th November 1873:

ISAAC FELTHAM, CHITTERNE & HEYTESBURY,
BEGS most respectfully to inform Agriculturalists, Farmers, &c., in Wilts, Hants, Dorset, Somerset, Berks, Gloucester, and Oxon, that he has taken to the Business of THOMAS MERRITT, DESTROYER OF VERMIN, in Houses, Ricks, Barns, Granaries, Stables, Store-houses, &c., and who, for upwards of 20 years, has been well-known in the above Counties as the most skilful and sure killer of those Vermin so destructive in the above mentioned places.

I.F. is confident that those who honour him with a trial , will never regret it, as his receipt excels any other in the whole world. Punctuality and moderate charges will be strictly adhered to.

Chimney Sweep Drunk At Pound Street, Warminster

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 9th August 1873:

Samuel Humphries, chimney sweep, was fined 10s. and 7s. 6d. costs for having been unlawfully drunk, in Pound Street, on 7th July. P.C. Poolman deposed to having found the accused between 9 and 10 o’clock at night creating a great public disturbance. He was very drunk, and made use of most impious language. Accused admitted he had had a little beer, but said he was not drunk, and his son had behaved badly towards him and made him excited.

Second Conviction For Felony

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 18th January 1873:

Police – Town Hall. Saturday. – Before the Jon. W.L. Holmes a’Court, and Nathaniel Barton, Esq.

Emma Carr, an elderly woman of Warminster Common, wearing a green shade over one eye, was charged with stealing 2 pig’s eye-pieces, a piece of cheese, and a piece of lard, value 4/6, from Mr. Ransome’s shop, Warminster Common, on 7th January.

Lucy Ransome, daughter of the prosecutor, stated that on the day in question, she was in her father’s shop when the prisoner came in during the evening. She bought several things and then went out, and returned and bought some more things, and after she was served she kept lingering about the shop while other customers were being served. Witness saw the prisoner pick up a pig’s eye-piece and put it under her cloak. She told her father, who sent for P.C. Wheeler, and on the prisoner being searched in the shop the articles mentioned in the charge were found upon her. Mr. Ransome, the prosecutor, corroborated his daughter.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to one calendar month with hard labour. This appeared to be the prisoner’s second conviction for felony.

An Expert Hurdle Maker At Crockerton

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 5 March 1870:

Some woodmen being at the Bath Arms, Crockerton, on Wednesday evening, and their conversation turning on the subject of hurdle making, one of them, Henry Edwards, of the same place, made a bet that he would make a hurdle out of four “rods” which he would get from Cricket’s Wood, the others maintaining that he could not do so, even if he took two hours in which to do the work, as the “rods” would take so much time in splitting. Edwards made the hurdle, however, within an hour, and had a “rod” to spare, thus winning the bet.