WARMINSTER, WYLYE VALLEY AND DISTRICT RECORDER, No.11Danny 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.11 of the Warminster, Wylye Valley And District Recorder includes:
The Prince of Wales' Oak Tree, Bishopstrow;
Historical Sketch of Warminster, from Harvey's Frome Almanack, 1878 (part one);
Palace Theatre, Warminster, souvenir programme for the Coronation Broadcast, May 1937;
The World's Biggest Coffee Morning, raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Relief, 24 September 2004;
Rambles in and around Warminster (history), Longleat, 1882, part two;
When the temperature soared at Cat Aid 2004 at Boreham Manor.
Warminster, Wylye Valley And Dstrict Recorder, No.11.
Edited by Danny Howell.
Softback, 210 mm x 147 mm, 64 pages, 65 black and white photographs and illustrations.
Published by Bedeguar Books.
December 2007.
ISBN not listed.
