Is this the original Bridge Street Club where Frederick William Scammell moved to when he left the police force?

Born in Donhead St Mary in 1872 Frederick was posted to the Police Station in Eastcott when he married Catherine Noad at Christ Church in 1897.

By 1901 he was serving in Shalbourne, Wiltshire. The couple had three sons Philip Edwin, Norman Robert and three weeks old Maurice Frederick.

Of these three boys two would enlist in the Wiltshire Regiment during the First World War. Philip, 19, was discharged just 13 days after he enlisted in Devizes in 1914, declared “Not being likely to become an efficient soldier.” Maurice died on January 14, 1917 in hospital in England. His cause of death was a fracture to the base of the skull, but it is not known how this happened.

But in 1901 this was all in the distant future for Frederick and Catherine. In 1911 Frederick was serving in Corsley Heath, Warminster. He was 38 years old and Catherine 37. They had been married for about 13 years and had 6 children who were all living.

Frederick died in 1918 when the burial registers record that he was Club Steward at the Bridge Street Club. He was buried on March 4 in grave plot C3468.

Catherine moved to Gorse Hill where she ran a shop at 147 Beatrice Street. She died at the Glenwood Nursing Home and was buried with Frederick on February 9, 1928.

Their son Philip Edwin, who was spared the ordeal of serving in the First World War, was buried with his parents in 1965.