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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…

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…

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…

Three photographs (and a fourth magical variation) of a bungalow built in 1963 (1) on former Rectorial Glebe land, named and built to serve as The Vicarage for St. Petrock's Church of Timberscombe. The top black and white photograph is The Vicarage…

Three Victorian portraits, two photographic and one painted, the first being of Lady Adelaide Audrey Anson, who came to live at Knowle House, the manor house on the northeastern edge of the village of Timberscombe. She arrived there, likely in 1919,…

A photograph that depicts the Old Methodist Chapel, The Old Mill and a medieval ford on the western end of Willow View, the pathway that runs east to west in Timberscombe, from Hole's Square to Church Street.

In September 1948, Rev. John…

A photograph that was published on the front page of the Somerset County Gazette on Friday, April 14, 1989, with the headline, "Bypass hazard blocked". On the right foreground is Mr. Kenneth Grabham, of the Grabham family that had been blacksmiths…

A photograph, published in the West Somerset Free Press, of new doors being installed for The Timberscombe School. The photograph is undated but is likely later 1990's. The doors, built resembling church doors, were made of local oak donated by…

A photograph of Head Teacher, Mrs. Leslie Lyle, in front of the Timberscombe School and it's 37 pupils. The photograph is taken from the school's playground at a back southwestern angle. The gabled red sandstone building was built in 1876 and 1877,…

The top photograph, from the West Somerset Free Press of 14 July 1967 and the two photographs below it, are of the retirement ceremony of Mrs. Kathleen A. Willis, the Head Mistress of the Timberscombe School for 34 years. Her first day had been on 30…