Category: Trade: Grocer and Greengrocer

The Bush Inn, Warminster

Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:

The Bush, Warminster
The site of The Bush Inn is occupied today by Wilson & Kennard’s grocery shop on the south side of the Market Place.

The Bush was in existence in the early 1700s and was recorded by both Daniell and Halliday. It closed before 1801. The 1801 Survey Of Warminster describes its location as “Plot 313, the Bush (late)”, occupied by Brodribb.

Uriah Brodribb’s grocery business eventually passed into the hands of James Dudden Brodribb (mentioned in Kelly’s Directory 1859). From circa 1867 onwards, Richard Sherring Brodribb was the proprietor of the store. By 1899 it had passed to Wilson & Mayo, shortly afterwards to Wilson & Kennard, under which name the shop’s proprietor today, Peter Mead, still trades.

Wilson & Kennard Ltd., 38 Market Place, Warminster

March 1987

Wilson & Kennard Ltd., high class grocery and delicatessen, 
38 Market Place, Warminster.

To the left is The Wool & Button Shop and
to the right is Coates & Parker.

The photograph was taken by
Danny Howell in March 1987,
a few days before Wilson & Kennard’s
shop was closed for good.

Retail Grocers In Warminster, 1968

Retail Grocers in Warminster, 1968:

E.K. Butcher, 69 East Street, Warminster. Telephone 3382.

George Butcher, 33 Silver Street, Warminster. Telephone 2048.

M.H. Byrom, 28 Vicarage Street, Warminster. Telephone 2420.

John Everett, 4 Market Place, Warminster. Telephone 3024.

F.P. Freegard, 2 Chapel Street, Warminster. Telephone 3173.

International Stores, 6a High Street, Warminster. Telephone 3046.

A. Mead, 34a West Parade, Warminster. Telephone 2321.

F.C. & M.E. Minty, 64 Deverill Road, Warminster. Telephone 2114,

Raymond D. Slade, Mondela Stores, Prestbury Park Estate, Warminster. Telephone 2199.

J.F. Spurdon, 4 Brook Street, Warminster. Telephone 3040.

Walker’s Stores, 10 Market Place, Warminster. Telephone 3067.

Grocers & Provision Dealers In Warminster, 1938

Grocers and Provision Dealers in Warminster, in 1938:

Miss Burgess, 16 Silver Street, Warminster.

Co-operative Society (Manager – E.D. Turner), 32 Market Place, Warminster.

Ernest Thomas Dodge, 1 & 2 Fore Street, Warminster.

John Everett, 4 Market Place, Warminster, and 5 George Street, Warminster.

E.M. Francis, 33 Bread Street, Warminster.

Albert John Gingell, 3 George Street, Warminster.

William Robert Hill, 56 West Street, Warminster.

International Tea Company (Manager – P.G. Favell), 50 Market Place, Warminster.

E.T. Long, 2 Sambourne Road, Warminster.

Frank Moody Ltd., Newtown Stores, Fore Street, Warminster.

Payne & Son, 9 George Street, Warminster, and Chapel Street, Warminster.

Turner’s Stores, 19 West Street, Warminster.

Walker’s Stores (Manager – A.H. Cornaby), 22 Market Place, Warminster.

Wilson & Kennard Ltd., 14 Market Place, Warminster.

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