3-070-482 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Longleat: sketches at Warminster, 1881. Damp royal visit to Wiltshire. '1. View of Warminster; 2. Prince and Princess Leaving Railway Station; 3. Arch at the Bank; 4. Passing down Market-place; 5. Market-place, looking West; 6. Arch, end of Market-place...On Saturday evening the Prince and Princess of Wales concluded their four-days' visit at Longleat House, the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, leaving by way of the Frome station on the Great Western Railway...The Warminster contingent of the 1st Wilts Rifle Battalion acted as a guard of honour, and the Warminster troop of the Royal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry, of which regiment the Marquis is commander, rendered service as an escort to Longleat. The streets of the town were bright with illuminated devices. Four gay double arches spanned the main thoroughfare leading to Longleat, the crossbeams of the first from the station bearing the inscription "Welcome to our Prince and Princess".' From "Illustrated London News", 1881.