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In 2022, workmen were renovating the interior of Ye Olde Malthouse, a residence on the southern end of Brook Street in Timberscombe, when the photograph seen here fell through the floor. It depicts several of the men from Timberscombe, Wheddon Cross,…

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 upper photograph, taken by Alfred Vowles, is labeled on the bottom left with "THE POST OFFICE TIMBERSCOMBE"(albeit a bit blurred), printed with capital letters enclosed in a faint rectangular box. The post office is the white rendered structure.…

An unsent original postcard, labeled "TIMBERSCOMBE" on the lower right corner, owned and donated by Maurice Huxtable, a lifelong resident of Timberscombe. The postcard depicts the southern end of Brook Street, at the village centre. The reverse of…

John Percival Martin is best remembered as J.P. Martin, the author of the six Uncle books, about Uncle, a millionaire elephant, normally attired in his purple dressing gown, living at Homeward with its hundred or so towers and illustrated by the…

A photograph by Bernadette Brunker, of the northeastern end of Timberscombe's Brook Street, taken as a village bypass is being constructed, which was completed in 1989.

This road was known as part of the Old Dunster Road and formerly had been a…

A photograph of Hill Cottage at Holes Square, taken shortly before it was demolished in 1979. It is obviously in a dilapidated condition, accentuated by the "DANGEROUS BUILDING KEEP OUT" sign.

Hill Cottage had been situated just east off End…

On the 15th of February 1765, a petition was sent to Parliament from the people of Minehead, declaring that their road, running from Watchet and Minehead to Bampton, and passing through Dulverton, Brushford Green and Exebridge, was "very narrow,…

These photographs depict horsemen gathered on the square in front of The Lion Inn during the 1960's. The photographs were donated by John Berry, the son of George and Marjorie Berry, proprietors of The Lion Inn from 1959 to 1972. In the summer of…

Two photographs taken at the same session outside of the Timberscombe School. The children of the school are assembled between a seated gentleman on the left and a woman seated on the right. Previously they have been identified as Herbert and Gladys…