Category: Trade and Occupations

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

A. Lucas Has Moved His Drapery Business To Premises Opposite The Wilts And Dorset Bank, Market Place, Warminster

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

Notice! Notice! A. Lucas begs to announce to the inhabitants of Warminster and its neighbourhood, that he has removed to the Premises opposite the Wilts and Dorset Bank, and has added the Woollen Drapery, Ready-made Clothes and Hats, &c. to his business. 

A. Lucas has just returned from the London and Manchester Markets, with a New Stock Of Goods, which for cheapness shall not be surpassed by any other House in the Trade.

A small part of Fancy Drapery Stock, not cleared out, to be sold at a Great Sacrifice.

Every article of Gentlemen’s Clothing made to order.

Funerals Furnished.

May 1st, 1862.

Exhibits From The Upton Lovell Cloth Mill

The Warminster Miscellany, 1 April 1862, reported:

Her Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862, have allotted to the Messrs. Hewitt, of Upton Lovell Mills, ample space for the advantageous display of the beautiful specimens of the fine Woollen Fabrics they have prepared for exhibition; and for the production of which class of goods this establishment stands in high repute.

James Lampard’s Mill Destroyed By Fire

Wednesday 20th February 1861:

James Lampard’s mill at Heytesbury was totally destroyed by fire. “This was undoubtedly the result of an accident. The building and machinery were insured in the Sun Fire Office, and the stock in the Royal Exchange.”

[The Warminster Miscellany, Friday 1 March 1861]

1841 Census: James Dutch Was The Brewer At The East Street Brewery, Warminster

The 1841 Census for Warminster records William Trapp (a stone mason) and his family living in the house at East Street which later became the Masons Arms public house.

The next entry in the census records James Dutch, brewer, aged 25, born in Wiltshire. (A reference to the brewhouse at East Street).

William Trapp’s first wife was Susannah Dutch.

A Silk Factory At Brook Street In The 1838 Survey Of Warminster

1838 Survey of Warminster

1838 Survey of Warminster:
Number: 1489
New reference number: 1479
Page: 133
Address: Brook Street.
Property details: Silk Factory (was the old workhouse).
State: –
Owner: Warminster Parish Officers.
Lessee: –
Occupier: –

A Timber Yard At Deverill Road In The 1838 Survey Of Warminster

1838 Survey of Warminster

1838 Survey of Warminster:
Number: 1635
New reference number: 1627
Page: 46
Address: Deverill Road.
Property details: Timber Yard and Garden.
State: –
Owner: James Buckler Osborne Bayly.
Lessee: –
Occupier: Joseph Sutton.

The Lime Kiln And Part Of The Quarry At Arn Hill, Warminster, 1838

The Warminster Enclosure Award, 1838, lists Ann Tavender as the occupier of the lime-kiln and part of the quarry at Arn Hill, also a nearby garden, plantation and paddock. The copyholder is Elizabeth Shirley.

Maltsters In Warminster, 1822

In the Warminster entries of J. Pigot’s Commercial Directory, 1822:

Maltsters

William Currier, The Close.

John Green & Son, Market Place.

Stephen Hunt, East Street.

William Langley senior, East Street.

Samuel Lawes, East Street.

Thomas Moody, George Street.

Jeremiah Morgan, Boreham.

John Thomas Morgan, Silver Street.

Thomas Pearce Morgan, Silver Street.

William and John Patients, West Street.

Christopher Pearce, West Street.

William Smith, The Close.

James Webley, Market Place.

Stephen White, Church Street.

John Young, George Street.