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An undated photograph of Knowle House or Knowle Manor as more commonly called in the later 20th century. The photograph is by Richard Kingsley Tayler.

Mr Tayler, who professionally was known as R. Kingsley Tayler, was a commercial and portrait…

The upper photograph depicts St. Petrock's Church from a northwestern angle featuring its two-stage church tower. The image has been utilised as a postcard, with a seemingly handwritten label across the bottom reading "51254, St. Petroc (as variously…

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…

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…

A photograph of local celebrants of the 9th August 1902 Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of Denmark, standing in the centre of Jubilee Terrace. The people of Timberscombe look to the camera under a large wreath, the centre focal…

A photograph of the front of the Old Forge in Timberscombe . A sign over the doorway states "C. PHILLIPS & SON GENERAL SMITHS". "C. Phillips" would be Charles Phillips, born in 1855 (1). The gentleman pictured in the work apron is the "son", Henry…

A photograph of four children, with a very nice wagon, in Timberscombe. While their identities are not completely assured, their location is certain. They are on the Old Dunster Road, as it entered the village on the northeastern edge (later…

Two versions of a postcard, labeled "Timberscombe Village" and featuring the centre of Timberscombe. The photograph was taken and published as a postcard by Henry Montague Cooper. While printed sources have identified the photograph as being taken…

A photograph, identified as being taken in 1928, of six children, two women and a dog. It is part of a group of photographs from the Timberscombe School, possibly donated by Mr. Cyril Copp, born at Wootton Courtenay in 1918, but who lived in…

An undated photograph, taken from the hillside on the northeastern edge of Timberscombe, overlooking the hamlet of Cowbridge. Obscured by the hillside slope, on the bottom of the photograph, is the main road, the A396, running from Dunster to…