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An albumen print photograph of Mr. Worsley Battersby, taken in London by Camille Silvy on the 3rd of June 1861 (1). The photograph is in the collection of London's National Portrait Gallery. At the time of this session, Mr. Battersby would have been…

In 1998 a group of Timberscombe schoolchildren, studying local history, produced a booklet, entitled "A Village History". It was researched, written and compiled by Richard Kelsey, Vicky Long, Megan Evans, Joseph Dare, Jade Webber, Tom Lamacraft,…

The top two photographs seen here were taken (via helicopter) in 2007, featuring the imposing white house toward their centre, that would have just recently been renamed Waterside. The top photograph depicts the house's southern side, fronted by…

Two photographs of essentially the same view of Marigold Holme and The Great House, along Great House Street, Timberscombe. The upper photograph is undated. Labeled "TIMBERSCOMBE.2", it could be earlier 20th century, possibly as early as c. 1909…

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…

A photograph of Timberscombe's Rover Scout Group. They are posed in front of Knowle House, the home of the Timberscombe Scout Mistress, Lady Constance Ryder. She is pictured at SP-122 with a Timberscombe Wolf Cub Pack, a photograph identified as…

The first petrol station and garage in the Timberscombe area was built by Harry Phillips in the early 1920's (1), alongside the main road at the site of the Cowbridge Mill, in the hamlet of Cowbridge, just northeast of the village. The top…

A black and white aerial photograph of Timberscombe, taken from the northeast on the 18th of April 1967. This copy of the photograph was donated in 2021 by Mary and Reg Holcombe of Church View, a bungalow that they built in 1981 (1). A predecessor of…

"Timber" is derived from the Latin "domus", meaning a dwelling. It's more modern use as a form of lumber likely derives from this origin, in the sense of a place where one resides, likely built with beams, planks and other wood. "Combe" is Welsh,…

Two photographs of a Women's Institute Meeting held at the Old Village Hall in Timberscombe. Thought of as a British institution, it is somewhat a surprise to learn that the Women's Institute, better known as the WI, was founded in 1897 at Stoney…