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On the 26th of January 2022, Joy and Martin Booth agreed to be interviewed at The Knapp on Church Street, their home in Timberscombe. Joy was born in 1949 at Stowey Farm, where her father, Abraham Land, worked as shepherd and farm bailiff for Eric…

The three photographs above were taken by R. Kingsley Tayler, depicting Timberscombe's Old Mill and the area in front of it. It is not clear when the photographs were taken, but long after the former corn mill was converted to a private residence.…

Fred Beadle was born in 1872 at Erith, Kent, the son of Frances John (Frank) and Rosa Jane (nee Clayton) Beadle. His father worked as a Coal Merchant and "Railroad Wharfinger" (1), a Middle English and now archaic term for the manager and/or owner…

The photograph above is of Timberscombe School children, that had been dated as 1910. It had originally been mounted for a history display held at Timberscombe School by Mary Wright, Head Teacher from 1976 to 1985. It differs from other school…

Two original photographs of Timberscombe schoolchildren, taken at the Blenheim Gardens in Minehead, a 6 acre park in the town's centre that opened in the 1920's (1). Standing behind the children, on the lower photograph, is their Head Teacher, Mrs.…

The St. Petrock's History Group was created in June 2018 to provide lectures of historical and general interest, with the first talk held on the 16th of July 2018. Just as important was to research, collate and preserve information relating to the…

A photograph that was rediscovered at the Timberscombe School in 2019. Handwritten in light pencil on the reverse, some kind person from the past has attempted to identify some of the schoolchildren and on the bottom left wrote "TAKEN 1922?".…

The photographs above are of the front and reverse of a postcard that was mailed in Dunster on the 15th of July 1910 (1). On the front are five children, not looking very happy, in front of the original doorway to the first schoolroom of the…

In the late Spring of 2022, Ruth Humphreys and Stephen Humphreys of Stowey Farm made a monumental donation to the St. Petrock's History Group, a vividly blue, hand-bound volume entitled "VILLAGE HERITAGE BOOK, 1975", 29 X 52.5 cm in size, with a…

The Rev. Rowland Allen Webbe Newman, the Vicar of St. Petrock's for the bulk of World War II, came from a long line of church ministers. He, his father, his great uncle and his great great grandfather all served, one after the other, as the Vicars of…