Wednesday 23rd August 2023
A message from S.L. Corden & Sons, 4 High Street, Warminster:
We sincerely appreciate all your kind words and support. Our 50% discount sale will continue until our official closure on September 9th. Everything must go, so as we prepare to close, this is an excellent opportunity to take advantage of incredible deals.
Saturday 11th March 2023
Cordens, High Street, Warminster ~ Information from the Warminster Blue Plaque Trail:
CORDENS. Site of Haden’s ironmongery early C19th. Sold to Sydney Corden some fifty years later and remaining in his family until 1978 when Charles Corden died. The business continues under his name.
7th December 2019
An announcement from S.L. Corden & Son, 4 High Street, Warminster:
A huge congratulations to Mrs Church for winning the elf with the lovely name Christina. Everyone at Cordens would like to say a massive thank you for all kind donations for a great cause, the Alzheimer’s society. We raised a total of £157.31 !
Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Weapons expert Peter Shorten has contacted dannyhowell.net with some very interesting information relating to a Warminster firearm.
Peter writes:
“Dear Mr. Howell,
I have recently read an entry of 2007 in your blog, containing a reference to the death of J. B. Haden, who was an ironmonger and a gunmaker and a member of the Warminster Volunteer Rifles. Someone concerned with the history of the Haden family wondered if there were any of his guns “still around.”
There is at least one, made for Ensign Jno. Scott, of the Volunteer Rifles, now owned by the Salisbury and South Wilts Museum and currently on extended loan to the Rifles (Berks and Wilts), Wardrobe Museum, Salisbury, and due to be put on display by the end of April this year (2013). Little provenance is available – apparently it was obtained, in exchange for something unrecorded, from a pub in (I think) Lymington some years ago. It is in fair condition, but is clearly a quality piece.
The Rifles Museum has a group photograph, almost certainly including Ensign Scott, of the members of the Warminster Volunteer Rifles, but no caption is attached.
Application (if any) to view the gun should be made to the Assistant Curator, at the above Museum, 58 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EX.”
Danny Howell replies:
Thank you Peter for informing me and the readers of dannyhowell.net of the current location of this gun made by John Burnet Haden, of Warminster, and for the associated connection with Ensign Scott. This is sure to arouse the curiosity of history devotees in Warminster. I, for one, will endeavour to view this firearm in the near future. Once again, many thanks.
From the leaflet Warminster Christmas Gift Ideas 2009, produced by the Economy And Tourism Group of the Warminster And Villages Community Partnership, September 2009:
Cordens, 4 High Street, Warminster.
Come and see our extensive and exclusive Christmas range at the Christmas shop with lots of Christmas ideas including kitchenware, gardening gifts, tools, baskets. Sugarcraft department.
01985 212115.
