
Warminster Through Time
Amberley Publishing
Published on 15. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-4456-1058-0 (ISBN)
Description
Warminster's industrial and agricultural heyday was already past by the dawn of the age of the picture postcard. Its once important role in the Wiltshire woollen cloth industry was a distant memory, and its famous corn market was reduced. Warminster is portrayed by these early photographs as a bustling town; its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century prosperity is evident in a wide range of fine civic, commercial, communal and private properties. The absence of any great revival in Warminster's economic fortunes during the twentieth century is apparent in the paired images in this book, which show, for better or worse, how little the architectural fabric of the town, as it looked a century ago, has changed. Now, much expanded, Warminster continues as a busy, popular and well-placed county town, and one that is steeped in history.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chalford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
180 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4456-1058-0 (9781445610580)
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Andrew Pickering | Kathryn Dyer
Warminster Through Time
E-Book
02/2013
1st Edition
Amberley Publishing
€9.89
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Persons
Andrew Pickering has lived in Selwood Forest for over 30 years, initially in Frome and more recently in Bruton. He has postgraduate qualifications in Victorian Studies, Archaeology and Heritage and has published books and academic articles on a wide range of subjects, including five A Level textbooks published by Cambridge University Press and Heinemann. He is the owner of Bruton's principal bookshop and also Chair of the Committee of the town's museum. Kathryn is a local history author who lives in Warmingster, Wiltshire.