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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,…

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…

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…

These are two photographs of Timberscombe Scouts, dated 1930. In 2017, copies of both of them were donated to the St. Petrock's History Group by Joan Vaulter of Aville Farm. Her late husband, Donald Vaulter, is one of the boys in both versions. …

Lady Constance Susan Euphemia Ryder, along with her older sister, Margaret Susan Ryder and younger sister, Lady Adelaide Audrey (nee Ryder) Anson, came to Timberscombe around 1919 to take residence at Knowle House, the manor home on the northeastern…

The photograph above is of Timberscombe School children, that had been dated as 1910. It had originally been mounted for a history display held at Timberscombe School by Mary Wright, Head Teacher from 1976 to 1985. It differs from other school…

A photograph of Timberscombe schoolchildren with the Head Mistress, Mrs. Kathleen A. Willis and a teacher, Miss Peggy Forster, in the centre of the second row. The photograph would have been taken between the end of April and before Christmas Break…

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…

Three photographs taken on the 12th of July 1964, at the time of the 250th anniversary of the 1714 founding of the Timberscombe School by it's benefactor, Richard Elsworth of Bickham Manor. The top two photographs were taken by Mr. R. Priddy, a…