Category: Transport: Road

Warminster ~ Motor Lorries For Refuse?

From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 3rd February 1940:

Warminster. Motor Lorries For Refuse?
Refuse collection in Warminster may shortly be carried out by motor lorry instead of horse and cart, if the Ministry Of Health sanctions a loan for the purchase of a motor lorry by Warminster U.D.C.

The Public Health Committee reported that an experiment with a motor lorry had shown that a driver and two loaders could deal with all the refuse from the town and the barracks in five days, with a little overtime on Monday and Friday. It was estimated that with reorganisation, and the employment of only one loader instead of two, the extra cost of using a motor vehicle would not be more than £85 a year.

Taxis In Warminster

From The Warminster Official Guide And Souvenir 1928 (penned by Victor Strode Manley):

There is always a good supply of taxis in the town, and a number are always available on the stand in the Market Place, near the Railway Station. Several meet all passenger trains.

When The Mail Cart Horse Slipped On Town Hall Hill (High Street), Warminster, Because The Road Surface Was Too Slippery

From The ‘Warminster & West Wilts Herald’, Saturday 16th November 1889:

The Slippery State Of The Streets

It seems that the steam roller has done its work even too well, for the beautifully hard and even state of the streets is not altogether a thing to be desired by those in charge of vehicular traffic. In some parts – owing, probably, to the nature of the stone used – the roads are very slippery, and several horses have fallen. This has happened particularly on the Town Hall hill [High Street, Warminster], where, the other evening, the mail cart horse fell, and the driver and the bags were sent flying through the air. Luckily no great damage was done.

The Bridges In Wiltshire

Saturday 21st January 1871 & Saturday 4th February 1871

The Bridges In Wiltshire

Warminster Herald, 21st January 1871:

THE BRIDGES IN WILTSHIRE. By the abolition of various turnpike trusts in Wiltshire, the maintenance of as many as 47 additional bridges has fallen upon the county rate, the expense having hitherto been borne by the turnpike trustees. There are on the late Devizes trust – 10 bridges; Beckhampton ditto, 5; Chippenham ditto, 6; Corsham ditto, 2; Fisherton and   Heytesbury ditto, 2; Sarum and Ealing ditto, 10; Warminster ditto, 2; Trowbridge ditto, 9; and Frome ditto, 1.

Warminster Herald, 4th February 1871:

To the Editor of the “Warminster Herald.’ BRIDGES IN   WILTSHIRE. Dear Sir, Will you allow me to say, in contradiction of a statement which appeared accidentally in the Herald of the 21st inst., (and in the columns of some of your contemporaries), that comparatively no “additional’ expense can have fallen upon the Wiltshire County Rate “by the abolition of various Turnpike Trusts.’ Many of the bridges mentioned by you (together with one hundred yards length of road approach to each and every bridge) have been maintained by the county a very long time, quite independently of Turnpike Trusts, with which they have been only locally connected. The two bridges at Boreham, and one other within the limits of the late Warminster Trust, have been County Bridges for 30 years or more, the late Frome Trust   included two of our County Bridges; and in fact, with scarcely an exception, the 47 bridges enumerated have been already dealt with by the County authorities. Yours truly, T. CRUSE. Warminster, 31st Jan. 1871.

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