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The Great West Country Blizzard of 1978 ranks as one of the worse winter storms to ever hit Britain. On the 15th of February, the front of a storm coming from the Atlantic Ocean, approached the United Kingdom, already producing heavy snowfall.…

The top photograph is a full-length portrait of Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, 2nd Baronet of Sandhill Park in the parish of Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, with his horse and dog (admittedly the latter is hard to find), dressed in the uniform of a…

The summer of 2022 was a historic time for all in Britain. Indeed that was true for the world, with most every nation entering their third year of struggling with the Covid-19 Pandemic. The first cases recorded in the UK were on 31 January 2020 (1).…

On the first day of 2022, Sajid Javid, Health Minister, warned that all people living in the UK would have to learn to live alongside Covid-19. Further restrictions, such as requirements to wear masks; school, church, shop and business closures;…

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 top photograph depicts red, white and blue bunting on the breezy morning of 2 June, just placed--fearlessly--around the top of St. Petrock's Church's tower by Churchwardens, Marion Jeffrey and Kate Hart. In the preceding weeks, variations of this…

If the grinning gentleman in the top photograph, wearing a clerical collar, looks a bit wet, thats because he was. He is the Rev. Edward Jeffery Miller, the Vicar at St. Petrock's Church since 1968 and at the time of this photograph, the esteemed…

The 1911 England Census listed the properties (and who was living in them) of the Parish of Timberscombe. Also published separately was the 1911 Summary Book, which listed the same properties together according to what Ecclesiastical Parish they were…

The watercolour seen above depicts Stowey Mill in better times. On 26 April 2022, this copy of the painting was shared with the St. Petrock's History Group by Noel Dawson of Saltford, a great grandson of Robert and Ann (nee Hooper) Sedgebeer (she is…

The top photograph was taken in 2022 and depicts the artist, Bernadette Brunker in the living room of School House, her home for the previous 42 years. The painting visible behind her is one of her creations, a vividly coloured oil of flowers against…