Silver Street News, Warminster

From the leaflet Warminster Christmas Gift Ideas 2009, produced by the Economy And Tourism Group of the Warminster And Villages Community Partnership, September 2009:

Silver Street News, 35-37 Silver Street, Warminster.
Puzzles, diaries, Christmas chocolates, soft toys, Christmas colouring books, Santa sacks and hats, paper chains, Advent calendars, Christmas decorations, tins of biscuits and sweets, Christmas plants and wreaths.
01985 213374.

Waylen, Newsagent And Tobacconist

Sunday 21st February 1999

Two photographs showing the exterior of Waylen’s shop
at 32 High Street, Warminster,
photographed by Danny Howell,
on Sunday 21st February 1999.

Miss Waylen and her sister, Mrs. Jean Hunt,
were newsagents, tobacconists, and sellers of toys,
postcards, sweets and chocolate.

To the left is the Chantry (Dental Surgery).
To the right is Jacqueline’s restaurant.

Waylen, Newsagent And Tobacconist

Two photographs showing the exterior of Waylen’s shop at 32 High Street, Warminster, photographed by Danny Howell, on 21st February 1999.

Miss Waylen and her sister, Mrs. Jean Hunt, were newsagents, tobacconists, and sellers of toys, postcards, sweets and chocolate.

To the left is the Chantry (Dental Surgery). To the right is Jacqueline’s restaurant.

Waylen, Newsagent & Tobacconist, 32 High Street, Warminster

Two photographs showing the exterior of Waylen’s shop at 32 High Street, Warminster, photographed by Danny Howell, on Sunday 21st February 1999.

Miss Vera Waylen and her sister, Mrs. Jean Hunt, were newsagents, tobacconists, and sellers of toys, postcards, sweets and chocolate.

To the left is the Chantry (Dental Surgery). To the right is Jacqueline’s restaurant.

Waylens, Warminster, To Cease Selling Magazines And Daily Newspapers

Saturday 30th August 1997

Notice from Waylens, High Street, Warminster: “We regret  to announce that as from 1st September 1997 we shall cease selling daily newspapers and magazines. We shall, however, continue with toys, stationery, confectionery, cigarettes and, of course, the Warminster Journal. We would like to thank all our longstanding newspaper customers for their loyalty over the years.”

Paynes The Newsagents, Market Place, Warminster

Paynes the newsagents, 49 Market Place, Warminster, BA12 9AZ. Proprietor Alan Gallagher decorated the tradesman’s bicycle outside the shop (on the right) with flowers, adding colour to the street. To the left of the shop doors is
a rotating display rack of local postcards. On the far left is a glass-fronted noticeboard, on which advertisement for items for sale and wanted or job vacancies available or sought, could be placed by the public for a small fee.
Below it is an advertising placard for The Sun newspaper. Several lesser known newspapers are displayed on the wall on the right.

Photographs taken by Danny Howell during August 1986.

Ewins, Newsagent, Toys & Gift Shop, Market Place, Warminster

 

Ewins, newsagent and toy and gift retailer, at 17 Market Place, Warminster.* Photograph taken on Tuesday 2nd June 1953, showing the shop decorated with flags to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Ewins started their Warminster business in 1946. (*Property later renumbered No.24).

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