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North Hawkwell, featuring Edward and Wendy Schofield (and the Collier Family)
Edward Malcolm Schofield and Wendy Joy Stevens married at St. Petrock's Church in Timberscombe on the 13th of November 1965 (1) and would soon settle into North Hawkwell, a farm with possible pre-historic origins, situated up a steep drive on the…
Herbert and Gladys Shephard --and Winifred Churchill-- at Timberscombe from February 1911 to June 1914
The period of time when Herbert Shephard and Gladys Ethel Shephard, were respectively Head Teacher and Assistant Teacher at Timberscombe School, was not that long-- only from the 6th of February 1911 to 26 June 1914. Winifred May Churchill, the …
Salome Valentine Wallace Outside her Retirement Home, St. Valentine's, Millbridge Road, Minehead
Salome Valentine Wallace became the Head Teacher at Timberscombe School on the 26th of March 1920, with her sister, Elizabeth Isabella Wallace, also hired as the Assistant Teacher (1). Respectively they were 48 and 47-years-old (2). On the same day…
The Clergy of West Somerset (including Rev. Crosswell of St. Petrock's), photographed between the late Summer of 1876 and the Spring of 1886
A photograph of nine West Somerset clergymen, all suited in their dark frock coats. They are gathered in front of an impressive, although unidentified (as yet) structure. A copy of the same photograph at the West Somerset Rural Life Museum was…
Two Southeastern Views of St. Petrock's Church, pre 1915 and 2021
Two images of a southwestern view of St. Petrock's Church, separated by more than a century. The top postcard may be dated 1909, if not earlier. The bottom photograph can not only be dated more exactly, being the 30th of September 2021--but it is…
CHRISTMAS DAY, 1956, When St. Petrock's December and Christmas Services Went Global (Again)
In 1952, the 9:30 AM Christmas Morning Service at the Timberscombe parish church, St. Petrock's, was broadcast around the world by the British Home Service, the national radio station that in September 1967 was renamed BBC4 (1). It was a momentous…
Two Photographs by Gabrielle Horrobin of the Interior of St. Petrock's During the Harvest Festival, c. 2010 and 2013
Above are two photographs taken by Gabrielle Horrobin of the interior of St. Petrock's Church at the time of the Harvest Festival and which were published respectively in the Timberscombe Calendar of 2010 and the Timberscombe Calendar of 2013.…
The Post Office at Little Farthings, with the Bond Family
The top photograph depicts a postcard of the cottage known as Little Farthings, on the northeastern edge of Timberscombe. It was built in 1929 (1) and first appeared on the 1921-1943 Ordnance Survey Map, with another newly built house to its right. …
The Officers and Men Serving in the No. 3 (Dunster) Company of the Minehead Home Guard Battalion, World War II (with five enlarged sections of the original photograph)
In 2022, workmen were renovating the interior of Ye Olde Malthouse, a residence on the southern end of Brook Street in Timberscombe, when the photograph seen here fell through the floor. It depicts several of the men from Timberscombe, Wheddon Cross,…
The Great West Country Blizzard of 1978 at Timberscombe, as photographed by Joyce Smith (and shovelled by Reg and Andrew Holcombe)
The Great West Country Blizzard of 1978 ranks as one of the worse winter storms to ever hit Britain. On the 15th of February, the front of a storm coming from the Atlantic Ocean, approached the United Kingdom, already producing heavy snowfall.…
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Timberscombe Cricket Club Players, Patrons and Supporters, in the Earlier 1960's (including the Rev. J.P. Martin)
An undated photograph, likely in the early 1960's, of a gathering at the Timberscombe Cricket Club on Cowbridge Road. It must have been an important…