Friday 10th June 2016
An item from Warminster’s past is included in the next sale by Richard Edmonds Auctions at Allington Farm, Chippenham, SN14 6LJ, on Friday 17th June 2016.
Lot 605 comprises a large oiler, bearing a brass plaque inscribed ‘H. Perkins and Son, Pound Row Works, Warminster’; an oil can bearing a brass plaque: ‘LMSR Oil Stores, Derby’; and one other.
For further details telephone 01249 444544.
Wednesday 19th June 2013
Fowler Engineering Warminster Ltd.
Turning, Milling, One-Off And Short Batch Work,
Plant Maintenance Work Undertaken.
Fowler Engineering Warminster Ltd.,
Unit 6, Deverill Road Trading Estate,
Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, BA12 7BZ
Telephone/Fax 01985 840824
From the book Yesterday’s Warminster, by Danny Howell, published in 1987:
Jimmy White (1864-1945) had come to Warminster in 1886, to take an appointment as an engineer at John Wallis Titt’s ironworks. When an opportunity arose to purchase the bakery business at East Street, he resigned from his engineer’s job and ran the bakehouse until his retirement in 1936.
Mr. and Mrs. White lived at the residence known as Brockenhurst at East Street, and someone who has good reason to remember the couple’s retirement is Eddie Ball’s niece, Gwen Ball, now Mrs. Howell. She said “When they retired from their business they gave me a keepsake which I still have to this day. At that time I was fourteen and living just around the corner from Jimmy White’s, at the Furlong. When I arrived home from school, my mother would say to me “Do you want to go up to Mr. White’s to get a one-penny fat cake?’ They were big and the best I’ve ever tasted. Jimmy White did all his baking in the shop and it used to smell lovely. He also sold groceries and sweets and for a farthing you could get a tube of coconut sweet tobacco. Jimmy was a little short man, with a bald head, and he and his wife were ever so kind to everyone, especially children. They were the kindest people you ever could meet’.
Tuesday 1st October 1968
A. Kendrick & Co. (Engineers) Ltd.
Market Place, Warminster.
Radio, television, household appliances.
Telephone 3019.
1966
Advertisement:
A.E. Farr, Ltd.
Station Road, Westbury, Wilts.
Telephone Westbury 356 (5 lines).
Civil Engineering and Building Contractors.
Departments:
Civil Engineering: Earth Moving and Levelling, Pile Driving and Heavy Foundations, Road and Bridge Building, Sewers and Water Mains, Tunnels and Outfalls, Reservoirs and Water Towers, Cooling Towers, Chimneys and Silos, Wharves and Jetties, Railway Stations, etc.
Building, Factories, Offices, Schools, Garages, etc.
Plant Hire: Excavators, Trenchers, Bulldozers, Scrapers, Dumpers, Rollers, Compressors, Mixers, Concrete Pumps, Pile Frames, Winches and Hammers, Mobile Cranes, etc.
Heavy Haulage: Special machinery, Carriers and Low-Loading Lorries for carrying heavy plant and machinery up to 30 tons weight, dismantling and erection of heavy machinery undertaken.
1922
Advertisement:
F.W. Lucas,
Engineer and General Machinist.
Established half a century.
Repairs and overhauls to internal combustion engines.
Gas, hot & cold water fitter.
Lawn mowers ground by machinery.
Sewing machines repaired.
West Street, Warminster.
