Thursday 27th November 2014
Advertising board at the Market Place end of the Three Horseshoes Walk, Warminster.
“Linhams, Family Butchers. Order today for Christmas and New Year! 01373 823695.”
C.R. Linham & Son, Chinns Court, Market Place, Warminster BA12 9AN 01985 846891
C.R. Linham & Son, 18 Maristow Street, Westbury, BA13 3DN. 01373 823695
Photograph taken by Danny Howell on Thursday 27th November 2014.
A gravestone inscription at the churchyard of St. Margaret, Knook, recorded by Danny Howell in the early 1990s:
In loving memory of Godfrey James Waters
14.8.1929 – 24.12.1981
A Master Butcher.
Friday 2nd January 1981
High Class Family Butchers
P. Rhodes
21 Prestbury Drive, Warminster
Phone 212684
Meat supplied to your requirements.
Deep freeze specialists.
Monday 5th March 1979
M. & M. Bowden
Family Butchers
Prime English Meat
Licensed Dealers in poultry and game.
Specialists in deep freeze products.
Farm fresh eggs, cheese, butter, fruit and vegetables.
Home-cooked hams and cooked meats.
High Street. Tisbury.
Telephone Tisbury 870 216.
Thursday 4th April 1963
Eastman’s, butcher, of High Street, Warminster, are making the following price reductions on New Zealand lamb this Easter:
Shoulders, 2/- per lb.
Loins, 2/10 per lb.
Best neck, 2/4 per lb.
Also available:
English oven ready chickens, from 7/6 each.
Norfolk oven ready turkeys, from 30/- each.
Succulent ducklings, from 12/6.
English boneless pork joints, from 3/- per lb.
Free gifts for children when you shop at Eastman’s.
Wednesday 1st July 1953
Chinn Bros. Ltd
Butchers, Fishmongers, Game and Poultry Dealers.
Market Places, Warminster, telephone Warminster 45.
17 George street, Warminster. Telephone Warminster 286.
Deliveries daily to all country districts.
1922
Advertisement:
A. Summers,
Butcher and Egg Dealer.
English and Imported Meat
of the best quality obtainable only
always at lowest market prices.
Customers waited on daily.
45 Vicarage Street, Warminster.
1922
Advertisement:
Payne and Son,
9 and 10 George Street. and Chapel Street, Warminster.
Grocers, Pork Butchers and Bacon Curers.
1922
Advertisement:
Chinn Bros. Ltd.
Warminster & Heytesbury.
Butchers and Fishmongers.
Prime English Beef, Mutton, Lamb, Veal, Pork.
Wholesale and Retail dealers in
Game, Poultry and Eggs.
Best quality only.
Daily supplies of high class fresh and dried fish.
Game of all kinds in season.
Poultry and new laid eggs.
Imported meat of first grades always on sale.
Telephone Warminster 45.
Telegrams: Chinn Bros., Warminster.
Photograph taken in June 1911 showing
William H. Payne’sÂ
bakery, confectionery, grocery,
pork butchery and bacon curing premises at
9, 10 and 11 George Street, Warminster.
(No.11 was later demolished to give greater
access to the rear of the property).
Signs include: “Hovis Bread, as supplied to
the King, promotes digestion” “Cadbury’s Cocoa”
“Fry’s Cocoa” and “Cadbury’s Chocolate”.
“Pork Sausages Fresh Daily” “Pickled Pork” and
“During Summer Months all meats
stored in Ice Chambers”.Â
The Payne family lived on the two floors
above the shop. Their steam bakery was in a
building in the yard at the rear.
The family also had another shop at
Chapel Street, Warminster Common.
Flags are flying above the shop windows,
celebrating the Coronation of King George V
(Thursday 22nd June 1911).
