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T.C. Lethbridge died, aged 70, on the 30th of September 1971 at Nuffield Hospital in Exeter, Devon (1). His credits were extensive, so much that his occupation is variously listed as the author of 24 books, an explorer, an archaeologist, a…

On the first day of 2022, Sajid Javid, Britain's Health Minister, warned that all people living in the UK would have to learn to live alongside Covid-19. Further restrictions, such as requirements to wear masks, school, church, shop and business…

By the 3rd of January 2021, the death toll from Covid-19 in the UK had passed 75,000. A mere ten days later, over 100,000 people had died (1).

Since the UK's first lockdown in March 2020, the country was hoping for a vaccine and the first one was…

The top photograph depicts red, white and blue bunting on the breezy morning of 2 June, just placed--fearlessly--around the top of St. Petrock's Church's tower by Churchwardens, Marion Jeffrey and Kate Hart. In the preceding weeks, variations of this…

Friday, the 16th of May 1989, at the Timberscombe School was an incredibly full day at the end of an eventful week. As Mrs. Enyde Webb, the school's Head Teacher from 1985 to 1994, wrote in her Log Book at the end of the previous week, "10th May…

The 1911 England Census listed the properties (and who was living in them) of the Parish of Timberscombe. Also published separately was the 1911 Summary Book, which listed the same properties together according to what Ecclesiastical Parish they were…

The upper photograph depicts Dave Collins creating a traditional wooden Exmoor Waymaker sign for the Exmoor National Park Authority at its workshop in Exford (1). These are the signs seen throughout Exmoor villages and alongside walking trails and…

The woman in the top photograph is Bessie Thorne, who lived from 1873 to 1958. Perhaps she would not have appreciated being remembered as having a hard life, although she certainly did. Her husband died at the age of 36, leaving her a widow with six…