WARMINSTER, WYLYE VALLEY AND DISTRICT RECORDER, No.8Danny Howell
The Warminster, Wylye Valley And District Recorder is the collective title for a series of little booklets which bring together notes and photographs taken or collected by Danny Howell, as well as articles and illustrations gleaned from books, newspapers, magazines, out-of-print publications, scrapbooks, personal papers, parish records, directories, diaries, archives, and a host of other sources.
Included in the series are reports of special occasions, essays and lists, the results of surveys, tape-recorded and written memories, sketches and plans, plus old postcards and photographs past and present. Many have never been regaled in print before.
Some issues are devoted to a single subject, some feature a collection of articles on a theme, and other issues include an assortment of topics.
Issue by issue, the series is making a record of people and places, events and customs, providing a wealth of information accessible to readers and researchers who want to know more about Warminster, the Wylye Valley and the surrounding area.
Issue No.8 of the Warminster, Wylye Valley And District Recorder includes:
The first ploughing match of the Warminster Farmers' Club, 3 July 1874;
When Barbara Phelps worked at Boreham Mill in the mid-1950s;
Warminster Close Junior School, Foot Shield Competition, 1936;
2004 Fun Day proved what a joy it is to live in Upton Lovell;
Rambles in and around Warminster (church and churchyard memorial inscriptions), Brixton Deverill, 1882;
And Baptisms solemnized in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, at Lane End, Corsley (part one).
Warminster, Wylye Valley And District Recorder, No. 08.
Danny Howell.
Softback, 210 mm x 147 mm, 64 pages, 47 black and white photographs and illustrations.
Published by Bedeguar Books.
December 2007.
ISBN not listed.
Included in the series are reports of special occasions, essays and lists, the results of surveys, tape-recorded and written memories, sketches and plans, plus old postcards and photographs past and present. Many have never been regaled in print before.
Some issues are devoted to a single subject, some feature a collection of articles on a theme, and other issues include an assortment of topics.
Issue by issue, the series is making a record of people and places, events and customs, providing a wealth of information accessible to readers and researchers who want to know more about Warminster, the Wylye Valley and the surrounding area.
Issue No.8 of the Warminster, Wylye Valley And District Recorder includes:
The first ploughing match of the Warminster Farmers' Club, 3 July 1874;
When Barbara Phelps worked at Boreham Mill in the mid-1950s;
Warminster Close Junior School, Foot Shield Competition, 1936;
2004 Fun Day proved what a joy it is to live in Upton Lovell;
Rambles in and around Warminster (church and churchyard memorial inscriptions), Brixton Deverill, 1882;
And Baptisms solemnized in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, at Lane End, Corsley (part one).
Warminster, Wylye Valley And District Recorder, No. 08.
Danny Howell.
Softback, 210 mm x 147 mm, 64 pages, 47 black and white photographs and illustrations.
Published by Bedeguar Books.
December 2007.
ISBN not listed.
