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Seen above is an aerial photograph that had been stored at Timberscombe School and rediscovered in 2021. Identified as an "AIR PIC" photograph, it was labeled on the reverse as being taken on the 18th of April 1967. Too large to be scanned on one…

A photograph donated in December 2020 by Ernest (Ernie) Munson, featuring himself and three other Timberscombe Scouts on Dunster Beach in 1947. Mr. Munson wrote that he and the other boys were "probably being tested for a badge". Ernie is in the…

In early August of 2020, Mrs. Chris Salter, of Wellington, Somerset contacted Lesley Webb, the editor of "Timberscombe", the Timberscombe village website at timberscombevillage.com, hoping to find information on her great great grandfather, James…

Above are photographs featuring two Timberscombe properties known off and on as "Rosemont"(or variations of "Rosemont") for perhaps 100 years. The upper photograph, used as a postcard, focuses on the more western structure and the lower photograph is…

Two versions of the same photograph of The Timberscombe Home Guard during World War II. The sons of two of the gentlemen in this group were instrumental in this being presented here. The top photograph was donated to the St. Petrock's History Group…

Two petrol stations opened in the Timberscombe area during the 1920's. The first appears to have been the Cowbridge Petrol Garage, featured at SP-163. It was built by Henry Arthur Phillips at the Cowbridge Mill, located at the hamlet of Cowbridge, on…

An albumen print photograph of Mr. Worsley Battersby, taken in London by Camille Silvy on the 3rd of June 1861 (1). The photograph is in the collection of London's National Portrait Gallery. At the time of this session, Mr. Battersby would have been…

An Alfred Vowles photograph of the Timberscombe Friendly Society conducting its annual procession, the Timberscombe Club Walk, down Jubilee Terrace in the village's centre.

The photograph, labeled "THE TIMBERSCOMBE CLUB PASSING THROUGH THE…

A photograph of the northeastern edge of the village of Timberscombe, identified as being taken by Stephen Bell in 1933. He was the third son of the Rev. Henry Herbert Bell and Katharine Mary Elizabeth (nee Clarke) Bell. Born at Pitsminster,…

Two photographs of a Women's Institute Meeting held at the Old Village Hall in Timberscombe. Thought of as a British institution, it is somewhat a surprise to learn that the Women's Institute, better known as the WI, was founded in 1897 at Stoney…