Wednesday 23rd May 2012
The Kingsway Short Mat Bowling Club meets at the Bob Blandford Memorial Scout Hall, Wilton, on Mondays, from 7.00 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. All ages and abilities are welcome. Equipment is provided. For further details telephone 01722 743853 or 01722 500437.
Wednesday 23rd May 2012
The Wilton Dojo Karate Club meets at Sarum 76, Salisbury, on Fridays, from 7.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. For further details telephone John Crocker on 01722 744013.
The Olympic Torch will be carried through:
Southwick, Trowbridge and Bradford on Avon, on 22nd May 2012,
Chippenham, Calne, Marlborough and Royal Wootton Bassett, on 23rd May 2012,
Ludgershall, Tidworth, Amesbury, the Winterbournes and Salisbury, on 11th July 2012,
and Salisbury, Wilton, Barford St. Martin, Fovant and Ludwell, on 12th July 2012.
On Sunday 6th May 2012 the congregation of Wilton Spiritualist Church, at Warminster Road, Wilton, celebrated two anniveraries.
The first was to mark the church’s establishment 74 years ago in 1938. It was originally called the Salisbury Christian Spiritualist Church, and was founded soon after a meeting held in the Assembly Rooms, Salisbury (premises in New Canal which are now Waterstones Bookshop).
The other celebration was to mark the church’s move from rented premises in Greencroft Street, Salisbury, to the former chapel of Wilton Workhouse, 50 years ago, in 1962. It was then re-named The Chapel of Light. Former president Geoff Griffiths, said “The title of the church changed again, 20 years later, in 1982, to Wilton Spiritualist Church.”
The anniversary service on Sunday 6th May 2012 featured Murial Chapman, a medium from Newcastle, who gave an address, followed by an evidential demonstration of her mediumship. Two cakes, one for each anniversary, were baked by Janet Stanbridge.
Saturday 17th March 2012
Wilton Rotary Club have made donations totalling more than £2,500 from its charity trust to representatives of six charities. The donations were presented at Salisbury & South Wilts Golf Club, prior to the Wilton Rotary Club’s weekly supper meeting on Monday 5th March 2012. Record profits from the Club’s highly successful fundraising events including the Mammoth Car Boot Sale and the Rotary Spireworks made the donations possible.
The lucky charities who were on the receiving end of the donations were: Alabar Christin Care; Alzheimer’s Society (Wiltshire and Swindon); Camps International Camp Kenya; Healthcare Outreach Program, Makongeni; Naomi House and Jack’s Place; and Parkinson’s UK, Salisbury & District.
The fundraising took place during Jeff Gyles’ second term as president of Wilton Rotary Club. He said: “I’m proud to say the club is buzzing at the moment. We have had fantastic support for our fundraising events from the local community. We are also extremely grateful for the sponsorship we receive from our business partners: A1 Roadcraft, Bloor Homes, Salisbury Journal, Southern Counties Auctioneers, Spire FM, Wilton Estate, Wilts & Dorset Bus Company, and Wiltshire Council.”
Jeff added: “As a result we have been able to make more than 30 charitable donations totalling more than £15,000 since July 2011, which will make a difference to the lives of many people – and that’s what Rotary is all about.”
From the Wylye Valley Life magazine, Issue No.23, Friday 5 April 1985:
The 1st Wilton Scout Group will be holding their annual May Day Craft Fair on Monday May 6th in the grounds of Wilton House, by kind permission of the Earl of Pembroke.
They still have one or two vacancies in the stalls area and some odd space in the marquee for anyone who wishes to display any crafts, whether large or small.
Anyone wishing to show off his or her hobby is asked to contact the Show Secretary, Mr. A. Turner, at 3 St. Nicholas Close, Wilton, telephone Salisbury 743403.
From The Young Moonraker 1977, the 1977 Year Book of Wiltshire Federation Of Young Farmers Clubs:
Wilton and District Y.F.C.
Even though Wilton is out on a limb from County, and does not participate very much in County competitions, we are a very active club. The Club has entered a few competitions though and did run a sideshow at the County Show.
During the winter months we had some very successful meetings covering many different subjects, which included talks by a gunsmith, an antique dealer, demonstrations on making of country crafts, on wigs, and the management of a dairy cow. Socially, we have been very busy, having trips to Southampton for ice skating, ten pin bowling and swimming. We had a successful treasure hunt during the summer. Other activities included country dancing, boating up the river (when everyone got soaked!), and a visit to the Pantomime.
We joined with Western Region and had a great time at a Mediaeval Banquet at Rhinefield House. In the summer we had some very enjoyable farm visits.
Sport is also popular with the Club members and we have had many football, hockey and skittle matches. Our best achievement was to reach the final of the County skittles, where we lost narrowly to Chippenham.
The highlight of the year was the exchange visit with Kington Y.F.C. from Herefordshire. Everybody who went to Hereford agreed it was the best weekend they had had. We were shown round a fish farm, poultry farm with 100,000 broilers, and saw the Welsh Mountains on horseback. We were also taken to two barn dances, followed by parties in members’ homes. When Kington returned to Wilton we also had a very enjoyable but hectic, weekend. It was decided to do something different with them, so after meeting at Salisbury we all journeyed to Southampton for ‘a dance on the ocean waves.’ This was hilarious. We hired a boat and had a disco and bar installed. We set sail for Cowes on the Isle of Wight, to the sound of pop music. On reaching Cowes we had an hour to wander around, and then we set sail for the return journey. It’s quite a sensation trying to dance on a swaying ship. However, everyone agreed it had been really memorable.
I hope Wilton Club has an equally successful and enjoyable year in 1977.
Richard Hall.
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Complete range of Agicultural Machinery.
Also “Brewers” Garden Machinery Centre
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K.H. Rogers, in Wiltshire And Somerset Woollen Mills, published by the Pasold Research Fund Ltd., in 1976, noted:
Wilton: Burdensball Factory
In 1799 the newly-erected manufactory of Mr Hayward was almost destroyed by fire. It was no doubt reinstated, for Joseph Hayward was among the manufacturers of kerseymeres and swansdowns at Wilton noted by the German traveller Nemnich, who said that his annual turnover was £14,000. He gave up business in 1810 and his manufactory was advertised for sale; it consisted of an extensive range of brick buildings erected for the purpose, a dye-house, a rack-stove, and a large garden used as a rack ground. One side was bounded by a clear stream of water, and water-power was used to drive a complete set of spinning machinery and fulling stocks.
The building was advertised again in 1811, and probably did not change hands until 1815. In that year J.B. Seaward of Burdens Ball Manufactory advertised for some good scribbling and carding engines, 60-spindle billies, and 80-spindle jennies, fit for working Spanish wool. Early in 1816 he advertised for two millwrights, but only two weeks later some machinery was offered under a sheriff’s order. It consisted of two 36-in. scribbling engines, two 28 in. carding engines, three 80-spindle jennies, and one 60-spindle billy. Two other scribbling engines were unfinished, and all the machinery was new and unused.
No more is known of cloth manufacture in this factory. It is probably to be identified with the ‘very extensive’ wool stores, drying house, and stoves at Burdensball bounded by the River Wylye which was put up for sale on the bankruptcy of Amos West, fellmonger, in 1834. In the following year, the carpet manufacture at Axminster was given up and the Wilton firm of Blackmore Brothers bought the looms and moved up some work people. Their address in 1830 was Kingsbury Square, but they clearly moved to the Burdensball property on the sudden expansion of the Wilton business. Since that time the buildings have continued in use for the manufacture of Wilton carpets.
It is certain that one of the buildings on the site dates from the establishment of the factory in the late eighteenth century. The one driven by water was probably that now called the old weaving shed, a brick building of three storeys plus a mansard roof lit by dormers, the main floors with three-light wooden casements. Most of the other buildings probably date from the establishment of the carpet manufacture on the site, but the lower part of the range on the roadside is probably also of the cloth factory period.
SJ, 4.11.1799, 15.10.1810, 7.1.1811, 27.5.1811, 16.10.1815, 15.1.1816, 29.1.1816, 30.9.1834;
Nemnich, Neuste Riese.
K.H. Rogers, in Wiltshire And Somerset Woollen Mills, published by the Pasold Research Fund Ltd., in 1976, noted:
Wilton: Crow Lane Mill
In the Labourers’ Revolt of 1830 a mob of 500 men destroyed this mill with carding and other machinery, the property of John Brasher. Some time afterwards the site was occupied by William Naish, a woollen cord manufacturer, whose business is said to have begun c.1800. In the middle of the century Naish turned over to making felt, and the mill is still used by the firm of E.V. Naish and Co. for making a wide range of felts for pianos and many industrial purposes.
Most of the buildings on the site are modern, but one two-storeyed brick range with stone windows of standard design remains. It probably dates from the reinstatement of the mill after 1830.
SJ, 10.1.1831.
