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In 1952, the 9:30 AM Christmas Morning Service at the Timberscombe parish church, St. Petrock's, was broadcast around the world by the British Home Service, the national radio station that in September 1967 was renamed BBC4 (1). It was a momentous…

Above are two photographs taken by Gabrielle Horrobin of the interior of St. Petrock's Church at the time of the Harvest Festival and which were published respectively in the Timberscombe Calendar of 2010 and the Timberscombe Calendar of 2013.…

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 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 top photograph is of Jo and Terry Cadman at the doorway of The Great House on Great House Street in Timberscombe, which they had owned since 1990 (1). The photograph was taken on Wednesday, the 9th of September 2015 by the West Somerset Free…

The top photograph depicts a choir boy singing in the nave of St. Petrock's Church at Timberscombe. He is 10-year-old Derek Poole, a member of the St. Petrock's choir. While Derek may truly have been singing, more than likely a newspaper photographer…

This cover page of the October 1936 issue of St. Petrock's Church Parish Magazine was donated in the summer of 2021 by Marion (nee Huxtable) Fewlass. It was found at Ye Olde Malthouse on Brook Street (renamed The Old Malt House in 2023), where Marion…

A photograph, taken by Mark J. Rattenbury, at the site of a re-discovered Iron Age hill fort on the southwestern edge of Timberscombe. The photograph was published in the Exmoor Review in 1996 and was likely taken in 1995. In that year, a detailed…

The first known recorded blacksmith in Timberscombe was in 1628. The building seen here is known as the Old Forge and while it is recorded that a forge may have been at this site since the 1100's (1), the residents of Timberscombe have always thought…

In 1844 there were three active smithies operating in Timberscombe, with up to six blacksmiths working simultaneously over the next decades (1). By 1911 there was one forge left in the village operated by two blacksmiths, William Grabham and his son,…