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On the first day of 2022, Sajid Javid, 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 closures;…

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…

If the grinning gentleman in the top photograph, wearing a clerical collar, looks a bit wet, thats because he was. He is the Rev. Edward Jeffery Miller, the Vicar at St. Petrock's Church since 1968 and at the time of this photograph, the esteemed…

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 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…

The top photograph depicts Frederick James and Dorothy Ada Clatworthy in front of St. Petrock's Church on their wedding day in July 1946 (1). Likely everyone in attendance knew them as "Fred" and "Dot". In September 2020 and on the 22nd of November…

On the 10th of April 2022, the St. Petrock's History Group was contacted by Carol Dougherty seeking information on her husband's paternal family line, asking in particular about George Cane, the young man featured in the top photograph. Mr. Cane was…

The top two photographs depict Charles and Nellie Burton outside the back door of the house on Great House Street in Timberscombe where they lived from 1950 to c. 1964. To Mr. and Mrs. Burton, their home was known as Rona but was later renamed…

The romantic couple, pictured in the top photograph, had been married the previous March in Blyth, a rural district in Suffolk, where the young woman, Phyllis Warne, was born on the 1st of May 1941 (1). The young man is Archie William John Dyer, born…

For a small village, Timberscombe has a surprising number of surviving structures built by men who also lived in the village. Among them was William Floyde (1878-1947), a mason who constructed many homes with No. 1 Willow View and No. 2 Willow House…