The School House, c. 1980 and the 1829 William Wood Sundial, on the West Side of The School House
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The School House, c. 1980 and the 1829 William Wood Sundial, on the West Side of The School House
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A photograph entitled "THE SCHOOL HOUSE, Timberscombe, near Minehead, Somerset". It is the cover photograph of a two-page Sales Particulars, presenting the property as "For Sale by Auction (unless previously sold)", issued by Cluttons, Estate Agents from 10 New Street at Wells, Somerset. The Sales Particulars are not dated but apparently were published in 1979 or 1980. The School House was purchased in 1980 by Ronald Brunker and Bernadette Ash. In 2020, Mrs. Brunker (as Ms. Ash became in January of 1981) recalled that she and Mr. Brunker were aware that The School House was going to be auctioned and believe it was withdrawn when the reserve was not met (or no bids were made). They were house hunting and had their eye on another property. When that did not work out, Mr. Brunker went to take a look at School House, then encouraged Ms. Ash to view it as well, and an offer was made. Purchase was completed on 20th November 1980, through the solicitors, Cornish & Birtill of Penzance.
Indeed written above "For Sale by Auction" on the Sales Particulars is "Withdrawn". This was possibly written by Kenneth Grabham (1920-2007) of Timberscombe. It seems that decades before, his father, Sam Grabham (1887-1971) had begun a collection of Sales Particulars and Deeds concerning local properties. The collection was passed on to their friend, Derek Poole (1942-2007), who left it to his daughter Angie Gummer. In 2019, she shared the collection, including this Sales Particulars featuring The School House, with the St. Petrock's History Group.
On the top of the second page, a description is typed reading "An attractive house adjacent to the School at the centre of the village of Timberscombe. Fine views are enjoyed from the property over Exmoor and the valley of the River Avill. The property was substantially constructed in 1804 in rendered stonework under a slate roof".
All true, except the date is not correct as it is recorded that a foundation stone was not laid until 1805 (1). Indeed the building of The School House was delayed for many more years than the one. In 1714, Richard Elsworth (variously also spelled as Elsworthy or Ellsworth) of Bickham Manor was dying at the age of 22 (2). A remarkable young man, at the age of 16 he had already financed the rebuilding of the tower at St. Petrock's Church in Timberscombe (3). In his will he left £200 to construct a charity school and a library, £10 a year to teach poor children to read and write (and recite the catechism), and another £10 annually to provide spelling lessons and books for both children and adults in need, including for everyone a bible and book of common prayer (4).
In Somerset, things can take time. The money was given but held by various people. The matter was taken before Chancery in 1798 and was not settled until 1802, at a cost of £600, a huge amount at the time. Still it was not until 1804 that Trustees were appointed and it was decided to build a school and a year later, the work began (5), beginning with The School House, as pictured in this photograph. The library and spelling lessons, promised by Richard Elsworth, never happened. Notwithstanding, the generosity of a young man of wealth benefited enormously what was a poor village, and has educated hundreds of local children. A plaque can be see on the left end of The School House's eastern wall, reading "Timberscombe Charity School. A Deed of Endowment By the pious munificense of Richard Elsworth MDCCXIV For the Education of Children in the Principles of the Church of England LAUS DEO".
The plaque used to be mounted over the front door of The School House, as seen at SP-072, a photograph with likely the Head Teacher, Henry John Griffin, positioned at the front door and his wife, Elizabeth Griffin (6), standing by the door to the schoolroom. Mr. and Mrs. Griffin were at Timberscombe School from 1906 to 1910 (7).
As Mr. Griffin's placement might suggest, The School House was not for the children. It was meant to house the Head Teacher and his wife (that being the norm for the school's first 114 years). In the photograph, an arched doorway can be seen on the left edge, the entry to a narrow semi-detached wing that housed the first schoolroom. There was a turreted bell on the top of the gabled roof of this wing, that no longer exists (8). In "AWAY AND HOME -WORLD WAR II, Somerset and Essex, 1939-1945", a memoir published in 2016, Pat Herniman recalled when she was eight years of age and being evacuated from London in 1939, at the advent of World War II. She stayed with her grandparents, Harry and Annie Prole, at Kiln Farmhouse, almost just across the road from The School House. If Pat got to school early, she was allowed to ring this bell (9).
The first occupant of The School House would have been Mr. William Curle, appointed School Master at £50 a year (10). Being "of the Parish of Timberscombe", with a job and now a house, Mr. Curle promptly took the next step. On the 30th of September 1806, he married Susannah Hole, also of Timberscombe (11). By 1856, the Head Teacher, Thomas William Smith, earned £100 annually-- more than the vicar was paid (12).
Mr. Curle was followed by Mr. William Brown Wood, born at Wiltshire in 1784. Wood is known to have been in the Royal Navy on the 11th of November 1803, although not by choice. He was press ganged, meaning he was likely abducted from a merchant vessel, a way-- especially during the time of wars-- to increase the number of troops. A month later, at the age of 22, "Able Seaman" Wood was assigned to the HMS Neptune, which in 1805 was under the command of Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, where 44 members of the crew were killed or wounded. By October 1809, Wood was sent to the HMS Medusa, a hospital ship, suffering a gunshot wound. He was discharged from the navy on 10 May 1810 "as unserviceable".
William Wood's father was Head Master at the Dunster School, where he went to work and where he would have been when he applied to be School Master at Timberscombe. He was elected to the position on 23 March 1810 at the Boot Inn, the public house in Timberscombe that by 1841 was sold, altered and became the Lion Inn (13). A copy of Mr. Wood's acceptance letter, dated 8th July, 1810 and sent from Dunster is archived with the St. Petrock's History Group. Another meeting was held on the 20th of July 1810, this time at the Luttrell Arms Hotel in Dunster, where it was agreed to pay Mr. Wood the yearly income of £50 (14). In 1824 William Wood married Joan Merchant of Timberscombe, who served as School Mistress, likely in charge of the infants and elementary students. Mr. and Mrs. Wood lived at The School House and it is where their daughter, Elizabeth, was born within the year (15).
Besides teaching, William Wood was a talented copperplate engraver, known for his "splendid handwriting", who in 1829 engraved a sundial on slate that still hangs on the western end of The School House. It is depicted on the lower photograph, taken by Andrew James, M. A., Chief Scientist of PRI Ltd, PRI House of Hampshire, for the British Sundial Society. Mr. James observed the sundial in 2000. Signed by Wood with a stylish intertwined "WWOOD 1829", the motto across the top reads "Sol lucet charitas extendit omnibus", translated as "The Sun gives light, (as) charity extends, to all". On the bottom right of the sundial, a section had broken away, replaced with concrete in the 1980s after the Brunkers arrived at School House. "RUIT HO" is seen, with Mr. James assuming the last two letters were followed an "RA", which would translate "THE HOUR RUSHES BY". Underneath that truism is "Redeem the Time, it...", which Mr. James supposed might have ended with "will not come again". Because of the two missing sections (there is also a break on the left edge), the British Sundial Society was forced to give the sundial a "Fair" rating but also added "Clearly Wood was a skilled slate draughtsman". Mr. James also applauds that the "exceptional dial" had been found fallen and broken by a previous owner, who had it reassembled and re-erected.
Joan Wood died in 1853 and William Wood retired the next year, moving to Porlock. He died 22 February 1860 and was buried at St. Petrock's beside his wife (16).
Local scandal followed at The School House soon after William Wood. In 1856 Thomas William Smith (in receipt of the £100 salary) was appointed School Master, having completed his qualifications at the Diocesan Training College of Oxford. His wife, Harriet Ann (nee Kingshott) Smith was appointed to be the School Mistress. They were about 30 and 29 years old. At some point Thomas had met a Frenchman, M. Freemeaux, and they agreed to exchange language teaching, with Freemeaux joining the Smith's at The School House in 1858. It would seem an affair followed between Harriet and M. Freemeaux. Suspicious, Thomas consulted with Rev. James Halls Crofts, vicar at St. Petrocks from 1853 to 1870 (17), who confronted Harriet. She confessed and M. Freemeaux disappeared. Perhaps to the consternation of Thomas, both husband and wife were ordered to resign and Thomas sent Harriet back to her mother. A divorce was granted in 1863. Harriet Smith ended up lodging in an overcrowded house in St. Pancras, London, working as a milliner and seems to have died in 1871, at the age of 44 (18). Like M. Freemeaux, Thomas William Smith disappeared.
The first female Head Teacher at School House was Miss Sarah June King who served from 1877 to 1882, as recorded in the Timberscombe School Log Book, 8 March 1872 to 31 August 1892 and listed on the 1881 Census. The second was unexpected. In the summer of 1914, Mr. John H. Miller was hired as Timberscombe's Head Teacher after Herbert and Gladys Shephard left for another assignment. His fiance, Florence Archbold was approved as Infant Teacher on the provision she was Mrs. Miller by the opening of school on 14 August . She and John Miller were duly married in Greenwich. London but with the first day of school coinciding with the outbreak of World War I, Mr. Miller was called away to serve with the Territorial Force. Florence Miller was quickly and unexpectedly certified as Head Teacher, a position she held until her husband returned on 28 August 1916. Her service had been noted as "capable and efficient" by the County Commission Inspector and when John H Miller wrote in the school's Log Book "....and Mrs. Miller has taken over the Infants Dept to which she was originally appointed in 1914", perhaps it seems a bit churlish (19). The next woman to be appointed a Head Teacher was Salome Valentine Wallace on 26 May 1920, with her sister, Elizabeth Isabella Wallace as the Elementary Teacher (20). They both took residence in The School House, along with their mother.
The last Head Teacher to live at School House was Mary Wright, who was at Timberscombe School from 1976 to 1980. She and her husband , John Wright lived at School House for a short time, before they eventually restored and lived in Yew Tree Cottage in Church Street in Timberscombe (21).
In the mid 20th century, The School House became a private residence. The Sales Particulars that accompanied this photograph, promoted the Entrance Hall, with (as written) a Timber panelled door and quarry tile floor, a Living Room with exposed beams, a stone fireplace and a window alcove "with seat", as well as the dining room with a new raised pine floor, a fitted cupboard and a tiled fireplace. The kitchen had an enamel sink with double drainers and fitted shelving, along with a "Workshop/Store" and a Utility Room with a Quarry tiled floor. The landing to the first floor had a skylight, leading to three bedrooms, one with a fireplace. An original studded timber rear door lead to a paved yard with stone storage shed and W.C. and "pleasant" gardens.
As stated, Ronald Brunker and Bernadette Ash bought The School House in 1980. Mr. Brunker was born in Swindon in 1905 and baptised at Barnwell Circuit, Bristol. (In 2020 Bernadette remembered Ronald told her "Brunker" had the Celtic origins of "brun" and "cra", meaning "bronze sword".) A life long music teacher and organist, Mr. Brunker became the Choirmaster and Organist at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich (22). He died in 1995 and was buried at St. Petrock's Churchyard. Bernadette Ash, born in 1934, worked as a professional radiographer until 1973, when she began a year long course at the Byam Shaw School of Art and then enrolled at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, becoming a respected artist of the British countryside, working in vividly coloured oils and finely detailed charcoal, painting under her maiden name, Bernadette Ash. She had a solo exhibition at the Woodland Art Gallery in 1982, a Georgian villa acquired at Greenwich, which operated from 1972 to 2003 (23). As Bernadette Ash, she has also exhibited at The New England Art Club, The Royal West of England Art Gallery and the Royal Academy. (24)
In 1995, Bernadette Brunker launched efforts to have the plaque honouring Richard Elsworth to be restored, as achieved by the conservation team of the Exmoor National Park association, as detailed at SP-284. Mrs. Brunker was also instrumental in preserving the grave marker of William Wood, which had eroded. Through her efforts, the marker was first restored in place at the churchyard in 1998 by Alison Henry, who had her own conservation business and later became the Head of Building Conservation and Geospatial Survey for Historic England (25). Further work was required by 2005 and the marker was taken away for restoration by students of Weymouth College, with the financial support of the County Council and the 1805 Club, which was founded in 1990 to protect memorials to Georgian Naval Heroes, ensuring the preservation of one of Somerset's few memorials related to the Battle of Trafalgar. The repaired William Wood marker was returned in October 2006 and repositioned in the North Porch at St. Petrock's, the church's main entrance (26). Bernadette Brunker has also been generous in contributing photographs to the St. Petrock's History Club Archive and this site.
Indeed written above "For Sale by Auction" on the Sales Particulars is "Withdrawn". This was possibly written by Kenneth Grabham (1920-2007) of Timberscombe. It seems that decades before, his father, Sam Grabham (1887-1971) had begun a collection of Sales Particulars and Deeds concerning local properties. The collection was passed on to their friend, Derek Poole (1942-2007), who left it to his daughter Angie Gummer. In 2019, she shared the collection, including this Sales Particulars featuring The School House, with the St. Petrock's History Group.
On the top of the second page, a description is typed reading "An attractive house adjacent to the School at the centre of the village of Timberscombe. Fine views are enjoyed from the property over Exmoor and the valley of the River Avill. The property was substantially constructed in 1804 in rendered stonework under a slate roof".
All true, except the date is not correct as it is recorded that a foundation stone was not laid until 1805 (1). Indeed the building of The School House was delayed for many more years than the one. In 1714, Richard Elsworth (variously also spelled as Elsworthy or Ellsworth) of Bickham Manor was dying at the age of 22 (2). A remarkable young man, at the age of 16 he had already financed the rebuilding of the tower at St. Petrock's Church in Timberscombe (3). In his will he left £200 to construct a charity school and a library, £10 a year to teach poor children to read and write (and recite the catechism), and another £10 annually to provide spelling lessons and books for both children and adults in need, including for everyone a bible and book of common prayer (4).
In Somerset, things can take time. The money was given but held by various people. The matter was taken before Chancery in 1798 and was not settled until 1802, at a cost of £600, a huge amount at the time. Still it was not until 1804 that Trustees were appointed and it was decided to build a school and a year later, the work began (5), beginning with The School House, as pictured in this photograph. The library and spelling lessons, promised by Richard Elsworth, never happened. Notwithstanding, the generosity of a young man of wealth benefited enormously what was a poor village, and has educated hundreds of local children. A plaque can be see on the left end of The School House's eastern wall, reading "Timberscombe Charity School. A Deed of Endowment By the pious munificense of Richard Elsworth MDCCXIV For the Education of Children in the Principles of the Church of England LAUS DEO".
The plaque used to be mounted over the front door of The School House, as seen at SP-072, a photograph with likely the Head Teacher, Henry John Griffin, positioned at the front door and his wife, Elizabeth Griffin (6), standing by the door to the schoolroom. Mr. and Mrs. Griffin were at Timberscombe School from 1906 to 1910 (7).
As Mr. Griffin's placement might suggest, The School House was not for the children. It was meant to house the Head Teacher and his wife (that being the norm for the school's first 114 years). In the photograph, an arched doorway can be seen on the left edge, the entry to a narrow semi-detached wing that housed the first schoolroom. There was a turreted bell on the top of the gabled roof of this wing, that no longer exists (8). In "AWAY AND HOME -WORLD WAR II, Somerset and Essex, 1939-1945", a memoir published in 2016, Pat Herniman recalled when she was eight years of age and being evacuated from London in 1939, at the advent of World War II. She stayed with her grandparents, Harry and Annie Prole, at Kiln Farmhouse, almost just across the road from The School House. If Pat got to school early, she was allowed to ring this bell (9).
The first occupant of The School House would have been Mr. William Curle, appointed School Master at £50 a year (10). Being "of the Parish of Timberscombe", with a job and now a house, Mr. Curle promptly took the next step. On the 30th of September 1806, he married Susannah Hole, also of Timberscombe (11). By 1856, the Head Teacher, Thomas William Smith, earned £100 annually-- more than the vicar was paid (12).
Mr. Curle was followed by Mr. William Brown Wood, born at Wiltshire in 1784. Wood is known to have been in the Royal Navy on the 11th of November 1803, although not by choice. He was press ganged, meaning he was likely abducted from a merchant vessel, a way-- especially during the time of wars-- to increase the number of troops. A month later, at the age of 22, "Able Seaman" Wood was assigned to the HMS Neptune, which in 1805 was under the command of Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, where 44 members of the crew were killed or wounded. By October 1809, Wood was sent to the HMS Medusa, a hospital ship, suffering a gunshot wound. He was discharged from the navy on 10 May 1810 "as unserviceable".
William Wood's father was Head Master at the Dunster School, where he went to work and where he would have been when he applied to be School Master at Timberscombe. He was elected to the position on 23 March 1810 at the Boot Inn, the public house in Timberscombe that by 1841 was sold, altered and became the Lion Inn (13). A copy of Mr. Wood's acceptance letter, dated 8th July, 1810 and sent from Dunster is archived with the St. Petrock's History Group. Another meeting was held on the 20th of July 1810, this time at the Luttrell Arms Hotel in Dunster, where it was agreed to pay Mr. Wood the yearly income of £50 (14). In 1824 William Wood married Joan Merchant of Timberscombe, who served as School Mistress, likely in charge of the infants and elementary students. Mr. and Mrs. Wood lived at The School House and it is where their daughter, Elizabeth, was born within the year (15).
Besides teaching, William Wood was a talented copperplate engraver, known for his "splendid handwriting", who in 1829 engraved a sundial on slate that still hangs on the western end of The School House. It is depicted on the lower photograph, taken by Andrew James, M. A., Chief Scientist of PRI Ltd, PRI House of Hampshire, for the British Sundial Society. Mr. James observed the sundial in 2000. Signed by Wood with a stylish intertwined "WWOOD 1829", the motto across the top reads "Sol lucet charitas extendit omnibus", translated as "The Sun gives light, (as) charity extends, to all". On the bottom right of the sundial, a section had broken away, replaced with concrete in the 1980s after the Brunkers arrived at School House. "RUIT HO" is seen, with Mr. James assuming the last two letters were followed an "RA", which would translate "THE HOUR RUSHES BY". Underneath that truism is "Redeem the Time, it...", which Mr. James supposed might have ended with "will not come again". Because of the two missing sections (there is also a break on the left edge), the British Sundial Society was forced to give the sundial a "Fair" rating but also added "Clearly Wood was a skilled slate draughtsman". Mr. James also applauds that the "exceptional dial" had been found fallen and broken by a previous owner, who had it reassembled and re-erected.
Joan Wood died in 1853 and William Wood retired the next year, moving to Porlock. He died 22 February 1860 and was buried at St. Petrock's beside his wife (16).
Local scandal followed at The School House soon after William Wood. In 1856 Thomas William Smith (in receipt of the £100 salary) was appointed School Master, having completed his qualifications at the Diocesan Training College of Oxford. His wife, Harriet Ann (nee Kingshott) Smith was appointed to be the School Mistress. They were about 30 and 29 years old. At some point Thomas had met a Frenchman, M. Freemeaux, and they agreed to exchange language teaching, with Freemeaux joining the Smith's at The School House in 1858. It would seem an affair followed between Harriet and M. Freemeaux. Suspicious, Thomas consulted with Rev. James Halls Crofts, vicar at St. Petrocks from 1853 to 1870 (17), who confronted Harriet. She confessed and M. Freemeaux disappeared. Perhaps to the consternation of Thomas, both husband and wife were ordered to resign and Thomas sent Harriet back to her mother. A divorce was granted in 1863. Harriet Smith ended up lodging in an overcrowded house in St. Pancras, London, working as a milliner and seems to have died in 1871, at the age of 44 (18). Like M. Freemeaux, Thomas William Smith disappeared.
The first female Head Teacher at School House was Miss Sarah June King who served from 1877 to 1882, as recorded in the Timberscombe School Log Book, 8 March 1872 to 31 August 1892 and listed on the 1881 Census. The second was unexpected. In the summer of 1914, Mr. John H. Miller was hired as Timberscombe's Head Teacher after Herbert and Gladys Shephard left for another assignment. His fiance, Florence Archbold was approved as Infant Teacher on the provision she was Mrs. Miller by the opening of school on 14 August . She and John Miller were duly married in Greenwich. London but with the first day of school coinciding with the outbreak of World War I, Mr. Miller was called away to serve with the Territorial Force. Florence Miller was quickly and unexpectedly certified as Head Teacher, a position she held until her husband returned on 28 August 1916. Her service had been noted as "capable and efficient" by the County Commission Inspector and when John H Miller wrote in the school's Log Book "....and Mrs. Miller has taken over the Infants Dept to which she was originally appointed in 1914", perhaps it seems a bit churlish (19). The next woman to be appointed a Head Teacher was Salome Valentine Wallace on 26 May 1920, with her sister, Elizabeth Isabella Wallace as the Elementary Teacher (20). They both took residence in The School House, along with their mother.
The last Head Teacher to live at School House was Mary Wright, who was at Timberscombe School from 1976 to 1980. She and her husband , John Wright lived at School House for a short time, before they eventually restored and lived in Yew Tree Cottage in Church Street in Timberscombe (21).
In the mid 20th century, The School House became a private residence. The Sales Particulars that accompanied this photograph, promoted the Entrance Hall, with (as written) a Timber panelled door and quarry tile floor, a Living Room with exposed beams, a stone fireplace and a window alcove "with seat", as well as the dining room with a new raised pine floor, a fitted cupboard and a tiled fireplace. The kitchen had an enamel sink with double drainers and fitted shelving, along with a "Workshop/Store" and a Utility Room with a Quarry tiled floor. The landing to the first floor had a skylight, leading to three bedrooms, one with a fireplace. An original studded timber rear door lead to a paved yard with stone storage shed and W.C. and "pleasant" gardens.
As stated, Ronald Brunker and Bernadette Ash bought The School House in 1980. Mr. Brunker was born in Swindon in 1905 and baptised at Barnwell Circuit, Bristol. (In 2020 Bernadette remembered Ronald told her "Brunker" had the Celtic origins of "brun" and "cra", meaning "bronze sword".) A life long music teacher and organist, Mr. Brunker became the Choirmaster and Organist at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich (22). He died in 1995 and was buried at St. Petrock's Churchyard. Bernadette Ash, born in 1934, worked as a professional radiographer until 1973, when she began a year long course at the Byam Shaw School of Art and then enrolled at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, becoming a respected artist of the British countryside, working in vividly coloured oils and finely detailed charcoal, painting under her maiden name, Bernadette Ash. She had a solo exhibition at the Woodland Art Gallery in 1982, a Georgian villa acquired at Greenwich, which operated from 1972 to 2003 (23). As Bernadette Ash, she has also exhibited at The New England Art Club, The Royal West of England Art Gallery and the Royal Academy. (24)
In 1995, Bernadette Brunker launched efforts to have the plaque honouring Richard Elsworth to be restored, as achieved by the conservation team of the Exmoor National Park association, as detailed at SP-284. Mrs. Brunker was also instrumental in preserving the grave marker of William Wood, which had eroded. Through her efforts, the marker was first restored in place at the churchyard in 1998 by Alison Henry, who had her own conservation business and later became the Head of Building Conservation and Geospatial Survey for Historic England (25). Further work was required by 2005 and the marker was taken away for restoration by students of Weymouth College, with the financial support of the County Council and the 1805 Club, which was founded in 1990 to protect memorials to Georgian Naval Heroes, ensuring the preservation of one of Somerset's few memorials related to the Battle of Trafalgar. The repaired William Wood marker was returned in October 2006 and repositioned in the North Porch at St. Petrock's, the church's main entrance (26). Bernadette Brunker has also been generous in contributing photographs to the St. Petrock's History Club Archive and this site.
Creator
Cluttons, 10 New Street, Wells, Somerset /
Andrew L. James, M.A., the British Sundial Society
Andrew L. James, M.A., the British Sundial Society
Publisher
Cluttons, 10 New Street, Wells, Somerset
British Sundial Society
British Sundial Society
Date
c. 1980
4 April 2000
4 April 2000
Contributor
Language
English
Identifier
The School House, probably c. 1980's and William Wood Sundial / Timberscombe / village centre
Acquisition Date
2019
Acquisition Method
Gift
Category
PLACES: Schoolhouses / Timberscombe
PLACES: Houses / Timberscombe
PLACES: Houses / Timberscombe
Condition
Good
Condition Notes
entered by Tom Sperling
Condition Date
2020
Dimension Type
W X L
Dimension Units
cm
Dimension Value
12 X 18 (PHOTOGRAPHS)
11.5 X 17 (PROPERTIES)
15.5 X 19 (PHOTOGRAPHS)
14 X 17.5 (VILLAGE HISTORIES)
12.5 X 16 (ARTWORK)
11.5 X 17 (PROPERTIES)
15.5 X 19 (PHOTOGRAPHS)
14 X 17.5 (VILLAGE HISTORIES)
12.5 X 16 (ARTWORK)
Institution Name
St. Petrock's History Group
Notes
(1) VictoriaCountyHistory.ac.uk (2) "THE VILLAGE OF TIMBERSCOMBE AND IT'S CHURCH" by B. L. K. Henderson and G.O E. Henderson, printed by E. Goodman & Son, Ltd., The Phoenix Press, Taunton, 1955 (3) "St. Petrock's Church Timberscombe", church pamphlet written by Marion Jeffrey, 2017 (4) "ELLSWORTH (as spelled) SCHOOL TIMBERSCOMBE 1714-1964", pamphlet written by Kathleen Willis, Head Teacher at the Timberscombe School, 1964 (5) VCH (6) Timberscombe School MINUTES BOOK, 15 July 1903-3 April 1930, page 34 (7) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 27 September 1892- 4 March 1910 and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 4 April 1910-25 March, 1947, pages 12 and 13 (8) the school bell is seen at SP-072 (9) "AWAY AND HOME, Somerset and Essex, 1939-1945" was published by Papermill Books, Little Baddow, in association with The Little Baddow History Centre and a typed draft of Chapter 1, "CITY MICE TO COUNTRY MICE", later retitled "Escape to the Country", was donated in 2016 by Pat Herniman and was archived at the St. Petrock's History Group Archive PERSONAL HISTORIES (10) VCH (11) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (12) VCH (13) "William Brown Wood of Timberscombe 1784-1860", by Mike Hansford, Marnhull, Dorset, Somerset and Dorset Family History Society, Vol. 33, No. 2, May 2008, donated by Carol Wheeler, 19 March 2019 and VCH (14) as recorded in a document, headlined "Luttrell Arms Inn, Dunster, 20th July 1810, signed by trustees, George Trevelyn and Robert Gould, archived with the St. Petrock's History Group (15) 1851 England Census (16) "William Brown Wood of Timberscombe 1784-1860" (17) "List of Vicars", posted at St. Petrock's Church, Timberscombe (18) "A TIMBERSCOMBE SCANDAL", by Mary Siraut, Victoria County History, EnglandsPastForEveryone.org.uk/Explore (19) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, pages 93-104 and England and Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (20) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, page 183 (21) as recalled in 2022 by Bernadette Brunker at School House (22) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, Non-Conformist Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records, 1644-1981 and 1939 England and Wales Register (23) artbiogs.co.uk/2/ galleries/woodland-art-gallery (24) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Ash (25) iperionhs.eu and uk.linkedin.com>alison-henry (26) "William Brown Wood of Timberscombe 1784-1860," VCH, the1805club.org, The Crier, November 2006 and Dunkery Tiddings, 2006
Storage Location
St. Petrock's History Group Archive
Storage Date
2020
Storage Notes
St. Petrock's Group PHOTOGRAPHS
St. Petrock's History Group PROPERTIES
St. Petrock's History Group VILLAGE HISTORIES
St. Petrock's History Group ARTWORK
St. Petrock's History Group PROPERTIES
St. Petrock's History Group VILLAGE HISTORIES
St. Petrock's History Group ARTWORK
Item Reference
SP-141
Technique
Copies
Citation
Cluttons, 10 New Street, Wells, Somerset /
Andrew L. James, M.A., the British Sundial Society, “The School House, c. 1980 and the 1829 William Wood Sundial, on the West Side of The School House,” St. Petrock's History Group, accessed May 3, 2024, https://stpetrockshistorygroup.omeka.net/items/show/3431.
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