Warminster was a lovely village to live in. It had a little less of typical English rain, a little more of the summer sun and when it was sunny, it was marvelous.
Take a look at the pictures taken on a walk into town. (We lived a mile from the town centre.) It really does look like a puzzle box.
These new edits take advantage of my "color enhance" setting on Photoscape. Only a touch overdone and mellowed again with a "film filter," it feels very accurate to what I experienced living there.
The funny-looking bush directly in front of us, just off the pavement (sidewalk, to we Americans) - once hosted a bee swarm which my partner (at the time) tried to collect for me. Unfortunately, they didn't stay in the hive, but this neighbour was very happy to not have the swarm anymore!
One of these houses even had a pigeon coop in the back garden. We visited them once just to take a look. The man would often exercise them over the neighbourhood.
The man who lived in the house immediately to the left here gardened in a frenzy. He always had broad beans or runner beans or something else growing. Sometimes, I'd stop and just talk to him for awhile. In the US, gardening is often seen as a very feminine thing to do, but in the UK, it's often the domain of the men. Not to say that women don't garden in the UK - they most certainly do. But men often take refuge in their garden sheds, whether to garden or tinker with radios, the women often don't care which it is - as long as the hobby doesn't wander into the house too much!
As we walk, we go around the bend to the left here, then find a path between the houses to take us out to Deverill Road - which leads us into town on Weymouth Street. As is very common in the UK, Deverill Road goes to Kingston Deverill... Weymouth Street goes towards Weymouth... Wylye Road (the road these two photos were taken on) runs along towards where the River Wylye comes close to the road - and sometimes floods it.
Here's one more - along Deverill Road.
I had to severely crop this one to avoid including cars with very obvious number plates, etc. Just to the right lived a lovely old lady with very obvious false teeth. But I'd often stop and talk to her for ages on the way home. Her little terrier was lovely too. She moved away shortly before we did... I know her children had been on at her to move and I'll never know whether that's what happened.
Around the corner to the left is the Fox and Hounds pub which would occasionally lose its glasses to careless patrons who would leave them along the paths to get smashed - or reclaimed.
The church is Christ Church - built in 1903 to reign in the "bad" part of town - Warminster Common - which was notorious as far away as Devon.
Photos taken by myself in 2006 with my Vivitar point-and-shoot.
Crossposted at Steem, Whaleshares and WeKu.
Lori Svensen
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