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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 St. Petrock's History Group was created in June 2018 to provide lectures of historical and general interest, with the first talk held on the 16th of July 2018. Just as important was to research, collate and preserve information relating to the…

A photograph that was rediscovered at the Timberscombe School in 2019. Handwritten in light pencil on the reverse, some kind person from the past has attempted to identify some of the schoolchildren and on the bottom left wrote "TAKEN 1922?".…

Timberscombe's St. Petrock's Church has had its share of vicars who were the sons of vicars, many of them celebrated in their times. Such was the case with the Rev. Canon Sidney Ernest Swann, Vicar of St. Petrock's from 1951 to 1960, as indeed it had…

Standing in the centre of this photograph, taken at the North Porch, the main entrance to St. Petrock's Church at Timberscombe, is the Rev. David John Cockle. He is surrounded by various members of the Church Choir. Standing just to the right of Rev.…

The Rev. David John Cockle was the Vicar at St. Petrock's Church for less than five years, serving from November 1946 to his prematurely early death in June 1951. In the top photograph, he is standing at the North Porch, the main entrance into St.…

The top two photographs offer striking views of the closing ceremonies of early 20th century weddings at St. Petrock's Church in Timberscombe. The brides are sisters, which surely accounts for some of the similarities in the photographs but cannot…

The two black and white photographs seen here, one of the font and the other of the rood screen at St. Petrock's Church, have been labelled as being taken in 1951 by Stephen Bell, when he was around 54-years-old. He first saw these when he was…

A photograph featuring St. Petrock's Church in Timberscombe, taken from a northwestern angle by Stephen Bell in 1933. Mr. Bell would have first seen his subject thirty-three years earlier in 1900, when he was 3-years-old, upon arrival to the village…

Above are two photographs, identified as being taken in 1920 by Stephen Bell when he would have been around 23-years-old. The upper photograph is the 14th century Churchyard Cross at St. Petrock's Church in Timberscombe and below it is an interior…