A 1923 Photograph of Timberscombe Schoolchildren with (likely) Miss B Wallace
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A 1923 Photograph of Timberscombe Schoolchildren with (likely) Miss B Wallace
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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?".
Among the handwritten names is the woman on the left end of the back row, identified as "MISS SALOME WALLACE". Salome Valentine Wallace had became the Head Teacher at Timberscombe School on the 26th of May 1920. On the same day, her younger sister, Elizabeth Isabella Wallace, became the Assistant Teacher (1). Throughout the Timberscombe School Log Book, Head Teacher Wallace only refers to her sister, professionally, as "Miss B Wallace", surely a derivation from "Elizabeth" but without a clue if the "B" was for "Beth", "Betty", "Bessie" or whatever.
The photograph was taken in the back garden of the school. The tiled roof, evident on the upper left, was over the original schoolroom constructed in 1805 (2). On the right side is a darker stone wall, with an extension overlapping the tiled roof, both part of a second schoolroom that was added beginning in 1876 (3).
It seems likely the teacher in this photograph actually was not Salome Wallace, but is Miss B Wallace. At SP-076 is another photograph of schoolchildren that has been dated as 1923, taken in the same location with both sisters. In that photograph, Salome Wallace is on the right end of the back row, identifiable from other photographs (and may be wearing spectacles, also visible on her in other photographs). On SP-076, Elizabeth Wallace is basically in the same position as the woman seen here, with the style of her hair and what is visible of her clothing also the same--suggesting both photographs were possibly taken at around the same time, likely at the same session. If so, this photograph is not 1922 but is 1923. One reason the students may have been placed in separate groups is that SP-076 features many of the younger schoolchildren, while the photograph seen here depicts older students. Indeed some of them are the elder siblings of the children at SP-076.
The first boy, standing to the right of Miss B Wallace, was identified as "DUDLEY HUXTABLE". Born Dudley Frank Huxtable in 1911, he was the son of Frank and Eva (nee Buttle) Huxtable. His sister, Muriel Huxtable, born in 1913, is also in this photograph, the second girl seated on the right end of the front row. They were enrolled at Timberscombe School, respectively in 1916 and 1918 (4) and lived at Brook Cottage on Brook Street, that had housed the Huxtable family since at least 1843 (5). Later known as Pump Cottage and then Tiki Cottage, it continued to house members of the Huxtable family until the summer of 2021 (6).
Dudley appears to have been a good student, winning the coveted Ellsworth Scholarship on the 21st of June 1924, which allowed him to continue his schooling the following August at the Modern School in Minehead (7). Like his father, Frank, Dudley worked as a carpenter (8) and in 1932, he married Grace I. Cook (9), by which time he was operating two Motor Service Stations, one in front of the house he grew up in (thus it became Pump Cottage) and at the Cowbridge Mill in Cowbridge (10). In 1937, Maurice Huxtable, the son of Dudley and Grace began his schooling at Timberscombe, (11) and in 1959 Dudley assumed the ownership of the entire Cowbridge Mill (12). Throughout all these activities, Dudley Huxtable was a constant presence on the local sporting fields, a lifelong player and then coach of the Timberscombe Cricket and Football Clubs (13).
Not only is Muriel Huxtable's brother in this photograph, so is her future husband, William John (but always called Billy) Baker, seated in the centre of the second row, fifth from the right. He may look tiny in this photograph but Billy Baker would be 11 or 12-years-old, born in 1912, the son of Henry John and Edith Mary (nee Farmer) Baker (14). Their family lived at No. 4 Church Street in the village (15). Billy left Timberscombe School after turning 14-years-old in July 1926 and a year later, in August 1927, Muriel also left school, also having turned fourteen (16). She worked as a "garage assistant" at Pump Cottage (17), was a Girl Guide (18) and later took care of Barbara and Jennifer Bond, the daughters of Fred and Constance Bond, when they were busy operating the village post office, at that time located down the road from Brook Cottage at Little Farthings (19). Muriel and Billy were active young people, both playing tennis and enjoying country dancing (20). Billy was a regular on the Cricket Club team and worked as a private gardener (21). He enlisted at the outbreak of World War II and he and Muriel married in 1943 (22). Their daughter, June ,was born in 1948 (23) and the three of them moved into Brooklyn, the cottage on the southern end of Brook Street, equidistant between the houses where Muriel and Billy grew up (24). At some point after the war, Billy started a private car service and in later life, when he was no longer small nor slim, Billy Baker drove the bus that delivered to Timberscombe School the children who lived outside the village --unlike himself and Muriel (25). Billy died in 1980, Muriel died in 1986 and they are buried together at St. Petrock's Church (26).
The connections between these students continues with another brother and sister who were first cousins of Billy Baker. Robert George (Bob) Baker is the second boy on the left end of the centre row (in front of Miss B Wallace) and his sister, Daisy Alice Kate Baker, is in the front row--but it is not clear if she is in the white pinafore or the girl to her right. (Daisy may very well be represented at SP-079, a school photograph taken in 1924, which suggests that she may be the girl to the right). Bob and Daisy were born respectively on the 23rd of January 1912 and the 4th of February 1913, the children of Robert Baker, a Haulier and Blanche Mary (nee Palmer) Baker (27). Mr. Baker was the younger brother of Henry John Baker, Billy's father (28). On 19 September 1916, the day that both Bob and Daisy started school, their address was Church Street, the same address as Billy's family. This may have been temporary as a few months before Robert Baker was leasing the house called Heber Vale from the Knowle Estate, which sold it on the 20th of July 1916 (29). In 1917 or very early in 1918, Mr. and Mrs. Baker (who had seven other children besides Bob and Daisy) moved into an apartment at Rosemont on Brook Street (30), apparently another temporary stop as by 1919, the family was living at Hole's Square where they stayed at least until late 1923 (31) --and apparently where they are at the time of this photograph. By later 1926, the Baker family was at the newly built No. 1 Council House (later renamed No.1 Bemberry Bank) where they stayed and where Blanche Mary Baker died in 1941 and Robert Baker died in 1964 (32).
Mr. Baker outlived both of his children that are in this photograph. In July 1935, his son, Bob, married his classmate, Kathleen Priscott (who is pictured in the SP-076 photograph) but sadly the younger Mr. Baker died in 1938, aged 26. Illnesses, while more common in the 1920s, seem extreme in the Baker family. During her years at Timberscombe School, Daisy had to leave several times, being "not well" and on 11 June 1925 was "gone to Sanatorium", as was her younger sister, Frances (pictured at SP-076). Both would return to school but increasingly would be away for extended periods. On 6 March 1925, Salome Wallace wrote explicitly that Francis Baker was suffering from tuberculosis and was "excluded for a time"(33) and certainly it appears this was the case with both girls. Besides tuberculosis, Francis had been sent to Minehead Hospital with appendicitis, Daisy was excluded from school with ophthalmia, Daisy and Francis both had pneumonia, after having influenza and ringworm at the same time, younger brother, Albert (also likely pictured at SP-076), was diagnosed with "tuberculosis of lungs & chorea ", after which the District Nurse reported Francis was ill with shingles (34). Daisy left school for good in April 1927 , having "aged 14" (35). She married Leslie R. Pope, a "Thresher feeder" in 1937 and they settled in Williton (36). Sadly but probably not surprisingly, Daisy Alice Kate Pope died at Taunton in 1950 at the age of 38 (37).
After the Baker family moved to Hole's Square, Daisy would have known the first girl, seated on the right end of the second row, not only as a classmate but as a neighbour--although to some that may not have been a good combination. She is Trinet Holland, born 29 April 1913 , the eldest child of John and Rebecca (nee Roberts) Holland. Two younger brothers, Frederick (Fred), born in 1915 and John, born in 1918, are pictured in the SP-076 photograph (38). Trinet's name was spelled "Trinette" when she was baptised at Carhampton on 7 July 1913, where her father's employment was listed as a "Hawker" and their address was given as "gipsy encampment" (39)-- much in the style of the time. In January 1918, James Holland, the older brother of John Holland (Trinet's father), was living at Allers in Timberscombe and brought his sons, Joseph and William, aged 11 and 8, to be admitted at Timberscombe School (40). In the Log Book, Head Teacher Wallace enrolled them as "two gipsy children"--she does not list their names-- and made note that previously they only had three days of any schooling and that neither the boys nor their parents knew their proper birth dates (41). Her tone was not exactly welcoming.
John Holland's family was in Timberscombe when he enrolled Trinet in September 1918 and by the time Frederick enrolled in 1920 the family was at Hole's Square, living in Hill Cottage, which would remain the family home for all of Trinet's life. Admittedly, the Holland children were often in trouble, not only with Miss Wallace but also with the police (42). A youngest Holland child, Rebecca, born in 1920, was admitted to the school in April 1925 (43). In the 23rd of August 1926, all four Holland children joined forces with the Baker siblings --there would have been five of them in school at this point--and waited after classes to attack two of the Slade children who also lived at Hole's Square (three of the Slade daughters are pictured at SP-076). For the next couple of days, none of the Holland or Baker children were allowed playtime. On the 25th, Trinet Holland and Daisy Baker were "impertinent" and Salome Wallace "caned them both". Fred Holland got away and ran home and informed his dad what was happening. Mr. Holland came down to the school and "was abusive and took home his 4 children". Then Mrs. Baker did the same. On the 3rd of September, Miss Wallace adding to these writings in the Log Book, "Above parents officially warned" (44). Perhaps it is not by chance the Baker family moved out of Hole's Square to Bemberry Bank shortly after this event.
Disputes continued for over the next 25 years between the Holland family and Slade family, that culminated in violence and became a national news story in 1950 (detailed at SP-301). By the 1939 England and Wales Register, Trinet was the head of her household at Hill Cottage, listing her profession as "Dealor (as spelled) in Waste Materials". Her father, John Holland, now a widower, was "assistant to daughter", while her brother, John Holland, was listed as "No occupation, assistant to sister". Trinet Holland died in 1970 and was buried at St. Petrock's (45). She is still remembered in Timberscombe for being prosecuted when she had dumped scrap metal, blocking the road from Great House in Timberscombe to Croydon Farm , as well as the footpath to Timberscombe Common. On the other hand, she is also recalled as the first person in the village to purchase a Jaguar automobile (46).
There are two other sister and brother couples in this photograph identified as "ELSIE GOODING" and "GILBERT GOODING" plus ""CATHY PROLE" and "HAROLD PROLE". Elsie, born 5 October 1910 stands on the back row, third from the right. Her brother, Gilbert John, born the 21st of January 1913, is the fourth boy from the left of the second row (47). They were both baptised at St. Petrock's (48), respectively the seventh and eighth of the nine children of Walter Gooding, a general labourer and Emma (nee Winter) Gooding. (The youngest Gooding child was Maud, pictured at SP-076.) Before the Baker family leased it, the Gooding family lived at Heber Vale (49), likely there when Elsie began at Timberscombe School in May 1915, while Gilbert started in May 1917 (50). Sadly both died young while still in Exmoor, Gilbert in 1934, aged 21 and Elsie was 27 at her death in 1938 (51).
Harold Prole was born in 1910, named after his father, also Harold but both were known as "Harry". He was the 5th child of Harry and Annie Maria (nee Wilsher) Prole (52). He is the very blonde boy, second from the left on the front row. His sister is on the right end of the same row. While identified here as "CATHY", she was Kathleen Mary, born in 1913 (53), the ninth of ten Prole children (the youngest being Phyllis, also seen at SP-076). The senior Harry worked as a general farm labourer, and as was often the case in that profession, he and Annie moved from farm to farm, especially with their older children. When Kathleen was baptised they were at Beasley Farm (54). The Prole family also spent time at Heber Vale when the younger Harry began school and were at The Lodge, the western gatehouse of Knowle House, when Kathleeen enrolled-- but eventually the family settled at Kiln Farmhouse, almost across the road from the schoolhouse (55). After turning 14, the younger Harry worked as a Domestic Gardener and in 1940 married a Welsh woman, Bessie Cadwalader and they moved to Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales, where he died in 1986 (56). Kathleen remained in Timberscombe, marrying Ernie Ray Lambert, whose family lived at The Old Mill and where Kathleen lived the rest of her life, although in her later years, she suffered from dementia and passed away on the 17th of November 1994, in care at Oak Lodge on Martled Road, Minehead (57).
The second boy on the left end of the top row (to the right of Dudley Huxtable) was identified as "DICKIE MURRITT". His actual name was John Evelyn Merrett, who began his education when he enrolled at Timberscombe in June 1917 but left on the 11th of May 1923 (58), probably not long before this photograph was taken. He was born in August 1912 and was baptised the following month at St. Andrews in Taunton, the son of John Turner and Florence (nee Fletcher) Merrett (59). Mr. Merrett was a Police Constable and was working in and around Timberscombe by the time his son was two-years-old, having been shot and wounded, with "intent to do h'm greviously bodily harm", in October 1914. The assailant was Frederick John Yeandle, a farmer from Wootton Courtenay, who was sentenced to six months hard labour (60). John left school as the Merrett family was relocated to Combwich near Bridgwater, where John Evelyn Merrett later worked as a Corn Merchant's Sales Clerk and passed away in 1969 (61). His parents apparently did not hold the shooting against the area, as they returned to live at 48 Fownes Road in Alcombe, Constable Merrett's address at the time of his death in 1962 (62).
The two girls in the centre of the top row are not identified but the two on the right end of the row were labelled as "MAGGIE BREWER" and "TEACHER". Unfortunately the latter is not named but she is likely a Monitress, the term for a teacher's aide, who was often an ex-student, always female, who left formal education aged 14 years but continued assisting at the school. The young woman in this photograph also appears, seemingly in the same capacity, at SP-079, the 1924 school photograph.
Margaret Bessie Brewer, always known as "Maggie", was still a student but not for long as she too will soon "age out" of school. Born the 27th of September 1910, she was the third child of Thomas William and Maud Kate (nee Fletcher) Brewer (63). The Brewer family had been part of Timberscombe since before 1760, the year that Thomas Bruer completed his apprenticeship to the village butcher and subsequently married the butcher's daughter and changed the spelling of his surname (64). When Maggie was enrolled at Timberscombe School in October 1915, her address was "Cowbridge" as her parents had moved into the living quarters of Cowbridge Mill but by the end of the next year, they were completing the construction of Sunnyside, their family home on the northeastern edge of Timberscombe (65). In her last months at school in 1924, Maggie sat for the Needlework Badge of Girl Guides and scored 100% on the Examination for the "Child Nurse" Badge, beating Elsie Gooding -- standing to her left in this photograph (66). Basically Maggie Brewer never stopped. She never married and remained at Sunnyside almost to the end of her life in 2005 (67), doing local domestic and dairy work (68), working with her lifelong friend, Beatrice Hole, in converting the former Rose and Crown Inn into Rosemont, the successful apartment house where the Baker family shortly lived (69), running one of the first Bed & Breakfasts at Sunnyside (70), as well as volunteering her home as a medical centre, an adjunct to the Dunster Surgery, for one to three days of the week as Timberscombe did not have such a facility (71). Plus Maggie was always the first in the morning to have her laundry hanging out on the clothesline (72). In the autumn of 1990, Maggie Brewer planted a tree at Brewers Green (73), the new Timberscombe village green officially donated by her family but with the venture certainly spearheaded by herself.
The unknown identifier did pencil in the first boy on the left end of the second row as "JACK CHURCHILL", although that name does not seem to appear in the school's Admission Register or Log Book. He did identify the third boy on the row, seated between Robert Baker and Gilbert Gooding, as "TED FRY", who was enrolled at school as "Edwin Fry" on the 13th of April 1915 by his mother, known as Bessie (74) but who was born as Elizabeth Ann Baker (75). Yes, Ted's mother was a younger sister of Robert Baker's father, Robert and Billy Baker's father, Henry John--thus Ted was another first cousin (in just this photograph alone) to both boys and Daisy Baker. Ted's father, also Edwin Fry, a labourer, took him out of school in 1916 when their family briefly relocated to Wokingham but by the end of the next January they had returned to Timberscombe (76). By the 1939 England and Wales Register, Ted Fry lived in Taunton, was married to Nancy Cowling and worked as a "Cider Factory Traveller." He died at Taunton in October 1993 (77).
The boy in the centre of the same row, wedged between Gilbert Gooding and Billy Baker was identified as "JIMMY WHITE". His full name was Roland James Harvey White, the son of Thomas White, a farmer and thatcher and Florence Mary (nee Harvey) White. Born at Timberscombe on the 5th of April 1913 (78), Jim (as he was mostly identified) had a younger sister Margaret (Maggie) White, born in 1917 (79) and who is pictured in SP-076, third from the left end of the front row. Both Jim and Maggie are well remembered in Timberscombe but seem to have had restricted lives. They never married, were still living and working with their parents on the 1939 Register and at the time of their respective deaths in 2009 and 2008, Jim and Maggie White still lived together in Glenborough, Cutcombe (80). Late in life, Maggie said she could not leave her brother. Like his father, Jim was a capable farmer and thatcher but didn't know how to open even a can of food to feed himself (81).
The two boys on the right of Billy Baker are not identified but the second girl from the right end of the row (next to Trinet Holland) is Rita Hole. Rita was born in December 1912, to the well known photographer, Herbert (Bert) John Hole of Swain Street, Watchet and Alice Maud (nee Williams) Hole. Rita was baptised at St. Decuman's in Watchet (82). Admitted to Timberscombe School in October 1916 (83), Rita would have likely attended school in Watchet but her father had died at a young age in January 1915 and her mother was born and raised in Timberscombe (84). Rita Hole married Raymond C. Lambert in the Taunton District in 1931 (85) but that marriage does not seen to have lasted-- Mr. Lambert was working as a Retail Clothiers Assistant in 1939 at Burnham-on-Sea, listed as "Married" but with no sign of Rita (86). She married John Hargreaves at Taunton in 1941 (where her surname was listed as "Lambert or Hole"), had a son, Nigel, born in 1941 and she died, as Rita Maud Hargreaves, aged 92, at Bournesmouth, Hampshire (87).
Almost cropped out of the photograph, on the left end of the front row is the boy identified as "BILL CLATWORTY 'LIGHTENING'". His full name was William Ernest Clatworthy, born the 22nd of March 1913, the son of Ernest Clatworthy, a Labourer and Rosina (nee Chapman) Clatworthy. He was called "Lightning" all his life "because he was slow" but was also known as a "lovely big fellow". Bill was admitted to Timberscombe School in April 1918, at which time his family was at Allers (also seen as "Alders"), a farm site of post-medieval origins, that consisted of two detached cottages and was a short track away from Heber Vale, where so many others in this photograph had lived but where Elsie and Gilbert Gooding 's family were concurrent to the Clatworthys being at Allers (88). Despite Allers' history, it will soon be demolished and in these last years, both it and Heber Vale were the home of various farm labourers and their families, people like the Prole family, that often moved quickly when offered work elsewhere. On the 26th of August 1918, just four months after young Bill Clatworthy's enrollment, four other boys, all also from Allers, were admitted to Timberscombe School. One was Leonard Chapman, a nephew of Bill's mother (89). The others included Joseph and William Holland, the gipsy brothers that Salome Wallace had already admitted the previous January. They had left after a few months but now were back, joined by a younger brother, John Holland (90) --not to be confused with Trinet's brother of the same name. Miss Wallace was likely not thrilled.
Whenever Allers was demolished, the Clatworthys made their way to Great House Street in the village. On the 1939 Census, at the house later called Overdale, Bill still lived with his parents. HIs father was working as a Farm Carter and Bill, who grew to be over six feet tall and was described as a "gentle giant", became a "Quarry Man". Great House Street remained Bill Clatworthy's address when he passed away in August 1971 (91).
Unfortunately the penciled identification on the photograph's reverse gets a bit askew on the front row. Besides the confusion of which girl was Daisy Baker, a "TOMMY WEBBER" is identified but it is not clear which of the two remaining boys, in the centre of the row, he is meant to be. Regardless he would be Thomas James Webber, born on the 2nd of March 1912 and was baptised the following 28 April by his parents, Thomas John and Bessie (nee Farmer) Webber (92). He has a younger brother, Robert William Webber (93), visible on the front row, fourth from the left, at SP-076. Before World War I, the family had lived and worked at Harwood Farm (94). During the war, Thomas John served with the Royal Tanks Corp, during which time his family relocated to Hole's Square, where they were when Thomas James was baptised (95). Post-war, the family would be at Combe Farm and when the kids were grown and gone, their parents ended up at The Gardens, cottages on Brook Street (96). At that time, the father, Thomas John Webber, was photographed with the Timberscombe Football League of 1929 -1930, pictured at SP-168. The senior Thomas was a robust man and favours the larger boy, seated on the left in the photograph. Thomas James Webber died in September 1996 at Stamford, Lincolnshire (97).
Head Teacher Salome Wallace resigned on the 22nd of July 1932 (98) and passed away in 1947. Assistant Teacher B Wallace continued at Timberscombe School until 31 March 1936 (99) and lived until 1959. Like her sister, she is buried in the St. Petrock's Churchyard but not as Miss B. Again she was Elizabeth Isabella Wallace (100).
Among the handwritten names is the woman on the left end of the back row, identified as "MISS SALOME WALLACE". Salome Valentine Wallace had became the Head Teacher at Timberscombe School on the 26th of May 1920. On the same day, her younger sister, Elizabeth Isabella Wallace, became the Assistant Teacher (1). Throughout the Timberscombe School Log Book, Head Teacher Wallace only refers to her sister, professionally, as "Miss B Wallace", surely a derivation from "Elizabeth" but without a clue if the "B" was for "Beth", "Betty", "Bessie" or whatever.
The photograph was taken in the back garden of the school. The tiled roof, evident on the upper left, was over the original schoolroom constructed in 1805 (2). On the right side is a darker stone wall, with an extension overlapping the tiled roof, both part of a second schoolroom that was added beginning in 1876 (3).
It seems likely the teacher in this photograph actually was not Salome Wallace, but is Miss B Wallace. At SP-076 is another photograph of schoolchildren that has been dated as 1923, taken in the same location with both sisters. In that photograph, Salome Wallace is on the right end of the back row, identifiable from other photographs (and may be wearing spectacles, also visible on her in other photographs). On SP-076, Elizabeth Wallace is basically in the same position as the woman seen here, with the style of her hair and what is visible of her clothing also the same--suggesting both photographs were possibly taken at around the same time, likely at the same session. If so, this photograph is not 1922 but is 1923. One reason the students may have been placed in separate groups is that SP-076 features many of the younger schoolchildren, while the photograph seen here depicts older students. Indeed some of them are the elder siblings of the children at SP-076.
The first boy, standing to the right of Miss B Wallace, was identified as "DUDLEY HUXTABLE". Born Dudley Frank Huxtable in 1911, he was the son of Frank and Eva (nee Buttle) Huxtable. His sister, Muriel Huxtable, born in 1913, is also in this photograph, the second girl seated on the right end of the front row. They were enrolled at Timberscombe School, respectively in 1916 and 1918 (4) and lived at Brook Cottage on Brook Street, that had housed the Huxtable family since at least 1843 (5). Later known as Pump Cottage and then Tiki Cottage, it continued to house members of the Huxtable family until the summer of 2021 (6).
Dudley appears to have been a good student, winning the coveted Ellsworth Scholarship on the 21st of June 1924, which allowed him to continue his schooling the following August at the Modern School in Minehead (7). Like his father, Frank, Dudley worked as a carpenter (8) and in 1932, he married Grace I. Cook (9), by which time he was operating two Motor Service Stations, one in front of the house he grew up in (thus it became Pump Cottage) and at the Cowbridge Mill in Cowbridge (10). In 1937, Maurice Huxtable, the son of Dudley and Grace began his schooling at Timberscombe, (11) and in 1959 Dudley assumed the ownership of the entire Cowbridge Mill (12). Throughout all these activities, Dudley Huxtable was a constant presence on the local sporting fields, a lifelong player and then coach of the Timberscombe Cricket and Football Clubs (13).
Not only is Muriel Huxtable's brother in this photograph, so is her future husband, William John (but always called Billy) Baker, seated in the centre of the second row, fifth from the right. He may look tiny in this photograph but Billy Baker would be 11 or 12-years-old, born in 1912, the son of Henry John and Edith Mary (nee Farmer) Baker (14). Their family lived at No. 4 Church Street in the village (15). Billy left Timberscombe School after turning 14-years-old in July 1926 and a year later, in August 1927, Muriel also left school, also having turned fourteen (16). She worked as a "garage assistant" at Pump Cottage (17), was a Girl Guide (18) and later took care of Barbara and Jennifer Bond, the daughters of Fred and Constance Bond, when they were busy operating the village post office, at that time located down the road from Brook Cottage at Little Farthings (19). Muriel and Billy were active young people, both playing tennis and enjoying country dancing (20). Billy was a regular on the Cricket Club team and worked as a private gardener (21). He enlisted at the outbreak of World War II and he and Muriel married in 1943 (22). Their daughter, June ,was born in 1948 (23) and the three of them moved into Brooklyn, the cottage on the southern end of Brook Street, equidistant between the houses where Muriel and Billy grew up (24). At some point after the war, Billy started a private car service and in later life, when he was no longer small nor slim, Billy Baker drove the bus that delivered to Timberscombe School the children who lived outside the village --unlike himself and Muriel (25). Billy died in 1980, Muriel died in 1986 and they are buried together at St. Petrock's Church (26).
The connections between these students continues with another brother and sister who were first cousins of Billy Baker. Robert George (Bob) Baker is the second boy on the left end of the centre row (in front of Miss B Wallace) and his sister, Daisy Alice Kate Baker, is in the front row--but it is not clear if she is in the white pinafore or the girl to her right. (Daisy may very well be represented at SP-079, a school photograph taken in 1924, which suggests that she may be the girl to the right). Bob and Daisy were born respectively on the 23rd of January 1912 and the 4th of February 1913, the children of Robert Baker, a Haulier and Blanche Mary (nee Palmer) Baker (27). Mr. Baker was the younger brother of Henry John Baker, Billy's father (28). On 19 September 1916, the day that both Bob and Daisy started school, their address was Church Street, the same address as Billy's family. This may have been temporary as a few months before Robert Baker was leasing the house called Heber Vale from the Knowle Estate, which sold it on the 20th of July 1916 (29). In 1917 or very early in 1918, Mr. and Mrs. Baker (who had seven other children besides Bob and Daisy) moved into an apartment at Rosemont on Brook Street (30), apparently another temporary stop as by 1919, the family was living at Hole's Square where they stayed at least until late 1923 (31) --and apparently where they are at the time of this photograph. By later 1926, the Baker family was at the newly built No. 1 Council House (later renamed No.1 Bemberry Bank) where they stayed and where Blanche Mary Baker died in 1941 and Robert Baker died in 1964 (32).
Mr. Baker outlived both of his children that are in this photograph. In July 1935, his son, Bob, married his classmate, Kathleen Priscott (who is pictured in the SP-076 photograph) but sadly the younger Mr. Baker died in 1938, aged 26. Illnesses, while more common in the 1920s, seem extreme in the Baker family. During her years at Timberscombe School, Daisy had to leave several times, being "not well" and on 11 June 1925 was "gone to Sanatorium", as was her younger sister, Frances (pictured at SP-076). Both would return to school but increasingly would be away for extended periods. On 6 March 1925, Salome Wallace wrote explicitly that Francis Baker was suffering from tuberculosis and was "excluded for a time"(33) and certainly it appears this was the case with both girls. Besides tuberculosis, Francis had been sent to Minehead Hospital with appendicitis, Daisy was excluded from school with ophthalmia, Daisy and Francis both had pneumonia, after having influenza and ringworm at the same time, younger brother, Albert (also likely pictured at SP-076), was diagnosed with "tuberculosis of lungs & chorea ", after which the District Nurse reported Francis was ill with shingles (34). Daisy left school for good in April 1927 , having "aged 14" (35). She married Leslie R. Pope, a "Thresher feeder" in 1937 and they settled in Williton (36). Sadly but probably not surprisingly, Daisy Alice Kate Pope died at Taunton in 1950 at the age of 38 (37).
After the Baker family moved to Hole's Square, Daisy would have known the first girl, seated on the right end of the second row, not only as a classmate but as a neighbour--although to some that may not have been a good combination. She is Trinet Holland, born 29 April 1913 , the eldest child of John and Rebecca (nee Roberts) Holland. Two younger brothers, Frederick (Fred), born in 1915 and John, born in 1918, are pictured in the SP-076 photograph (38). Trinet's name was spelled "Trinette" when she was baptised at Carhampton on 7 July 1913, where her father's employment was listed as a "Hawker" and their address was given as "gipsy encampment" (39)-- much in the style of the time. In January 1918, James Holland, the older brother of John Holland (Trinet's father), was living at Allers in Timberscombe and brought his sons, Joseph and William, aged 11 and 8, to be admitted at Timberscombe School (40). In the Log Book, Head Teacher Wallace enrolled them as "two gipsy children"--she does not list their names-- and made note that previously they only had three days of any schooling and that neither the boys nor their parents knew their proper birth dates (41). Her tone was not exactly welcoming.
John Holland's family was in Timberscombe when he enrolled Trinet in September 1918 and by the time Frederick enrolled in 1920 the family was at Hole's Square, living in Hill Cottage, which would remain the family home for all of Trinet's life. Admittedly, the Holland children were often in trouble, not only with Miss Wallace but also with the police (42). A youngest Holland child, Rebecca, born in 1920, was admitted to the school in April 1925 (43). In the 23rd of August 1926, all four Holland children joined forces with the Baker siblings --there would have been five of them in school at this point--and waited after classes to attack two of the Slade children who also lived at Hole's Square (three of the Slade daughters are pictured at SP-076). For the next couple of days, none of the Holland or Baker children were allowed playtime. On the 25th, Trinet Holland and Daisy Baker were "impertinent" and Salome Wallace "caned them both". Fred Holland got away and ran home and informed his dad what was happening. Mr. Holland came down to the school and "was abusive and took home his 4 children". Then Mrs. Baker did the same. On the 3rd of September, Miss Wallace adding to these writings in the Log Book, "Above parents officially warned" (44). Perhaps it is not by chance the Baker family moved out of Hole's Square to Bemberry Bank shortly after this event.
Disputes continued for over the next 25 years between the Holland family and Slade family, that culminated in violence and became a national news story in 1950 (detailed at SP-301). By the 1939 England and Wales Register, Trinet was the head of her household at Hill Cottage, listing her profession as "Dealor (as spelled) in Waste Materials". Her father, John Holland, now a widower, was "assistant to daughter", while her brother, John Holland, was listed as "No occupation, assistant to sister". Trinet Holland died in 1970 and was buried at St. Petrock's (45). She is still remembered in Timberscombe for being prosecuted when she had dumped scrap metal, blocking the road from Great House in Timberscombe to Croydon Farm , as well as the footpath to Timberscombe Common. On the other hand, she is also recalled as the first person in the village to purchase a Jaguar automobile (46).
There are two other sister and brother couples in this photograph identified as "ELSIE GOODING" and "GILBERT GOODING" plus ""CATHY PROLE" and "HAROLD PROLE". Elsie, born 5 October 1910 stands on the back row, third from the right. Her brother, Gilbert John, born the 21st of January 1913, is the fourth boy from the left of the second row (47). They were both baptised at St. Petrock's (48), respectively the seventh and eighth of the nine children of Walter Gooding, a general labourer and Emma (nee Winter) Gooding. (The youngest Gooding child was Maud, pictured at SP-076.) Before the Baker family leased it, the Gooding family lived at Heber Vale (49), likely there when Elsie began at Timberscombe School in May 1915, while Gilbert started in May 1917 (50). Sadly both died young while still in Exmoor, Gilbert in 1934, aged 21 and Elsie was 27 at her death in 1938 (51).
Harold Prole was born in 1910, named after his father, also Harold but both were known as "Harry". He was the 5th child of Harry and Annie Maria (nee Wilsher) Prole (52). He is the very blonde boy, second from the left on the front row. His sister is on the right end of the same row. While identified here as "CATHY", she was Kathleen Mary, born in 1913 (53), the ninth of ten Prole children (the youngest being Phyllis, also seen at SP-076). The senior Harry worked as a general farm labourer, and as was often the case in that profession, he and Annie moved from farm to farm, especially with their older children. When Kathleen was baptised they were at Beasley Farm (54). The Prole family also spent time at Heber Vale when the younger Harry began school and were at The Lodge, the western gatehouse of Knowle House, when Kathleeen enrolled-- but eventually the family settled at Kiln Farmhouse, almost across the road from the schoolhouse (55). After turning 14, the younger Harry worked as a Domestic Gardener and in 1940 married a Welsh woman, Bessie Cadwalader and they moved to Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales, where he died in 1986 (56). Kathleen remained in Timberscombe, marrying Ernie Ray Lambert, whose family lived at The Old Mill and where Kathleen lived the rest of her life, although in her later years, she suffered from dementia and passed away on the 17th of November 1994, in care at Oak Lodge on Martled Road, Minehead (57).
The second boy on the left end of the top row (to the right of Dudley Huxtable) was identified as "DICKIE MURRITT". His actual name was John Evelyn Merrett, who began his education when he enrolled at Timberscombe in June 1917 but left on the 11th of May 1923 (58), probably not long before this photograph was taken. He was born in August 1912 and was baptised the following month at St. Andrews in Taunton, the son of John Turner and Florence (nee Fletcher) Merrett (59). Mr. Merrett was a Police Constable and was working in and around Timberscombe by the time his son was two-years-old, having been shot and wounded, with "intent to do h'm greviously bodily harm", in October 1914. The assailant was Frederick John Yeandle, a farmer from Wootton Courtenay, who was sentenced to six months hard labour (60). John left school as the Merrett family was relocated to Combwich near Bridgwater, where John Evelyn Merrett later worked as a Corn Merchant's Sales Clerk and passed away in 1969 (61). His parents apparently did not hold the shooting against the area, as they returned to live at 48 Fownes Road in Alcombe, Constable Merrett's address at the time of his death in 1962 (62).
The two girls in the centre of the top row are not identified but the two on the right end of the row were labelled as "MAGGIE BREWER" and "TEACHER". Unfortunately the latter is not named but she is likely a Monitress, the term for a teacher's aide, who was often an ex-student, always female, who left formal education aged 14 years but continued assisting at the school. The young woman in this photograph also appears, seemingly in the same capacity, at SP-079, the 1924 school photograph.
Margaret Bessie Brewer, always known as "Maggie", was still a student but not for long as she too will soon "age out" of school. Born the 27th of September 1910, she was the third child of Thomas William and Maud Kate (nee Fletcher) Brewer (63). The Brewer family had been part of Timberscombe since before 1760, the year that Thomas Bruer completed his apprenticeship to the village butcher and subsequently married the butcher's daughter and changed the spelling of his surname (64). When Maggie was enrolled at Timberscombe School in October 1915, her address was "Cowbridge" as her parents had moved into the living quarters of Cowbridge Mill but by the end of the next year, they were completing the construction of Sunnyside, their family home on the northeastern edge of Timberscombe (65). In her last months at school in 1924, Maggie sat for the Needlework Badge of Girl Guides and scored 100% on the Examination for the "Child Nurse" Badge, beating Elsie Gooding -- standing to her left in this photograph (66). Basically Maggie Brewer never stopped. She never married and remained at Sunnyside almost to the end of her life in 2005 (67), doing local domestic and dairy work (68), working with her lifelong friend, Beatrice Hole, in converting the former Rose and Crown Inn into Rosemont, the successful apartment house where the Baker family shortly lived (69), running one of the first Bed & Breakfasts at Sunnyside (70), as well as volunteering her home as a medical centre, an adjunct to the Dunster Surgery, for one to three days of the week as Timberscombe did not have such a facility (71). Plus Maggie was always the first in the morning to have her laundry hanging out on the clothesline (72). In the autumn of 1990, Maggie Brewer planted a tree at Brewers Green (73), the new Timberscombe village green officially donated by her family but with the venture certainly spearheaded by herself.
The unknown identifier did pencil in the first boy on the left end of the second row as "JACK CHURCHILL", although that name does not seem to appear in the school's Admission Register or Log Book. He did identify the third boy on the row, seated between Robert Baker and Gilbert Gooding, as "TED FRY", who was enrolled at school as "Edwin Fry" on the 13th of April 1915 by his mother, known as Bessie (74) but who was born as Elizabeth Ann Baker (75). Yes, Ted's mother was a younger sister of Robert Baker's father, Robert and Billy Baker's father, Henry John--thus Ted was another first cousin (in just this photograph alone) to both boys and Daisy Baker. Ted's father, also Edwin Fry, a labourer, took him out of school in 1916 when their family briefly relocated to Wokingham but by the end of the next January they had returned to Timberscombe (76). By the 1939 England and Wales Register, Ted Fry lived in Taunton, was married to Nancy Cowling and worked as a "Cider Factory Traveller." He died at Taunton in October 1993 (77).
The boy in the centre of the same row, wedged between Gilbert Gooding and Billy Baker was identified as "JIMMY WHITE". His full name was Roland James Harvey White, the son of Thomas White, a farmer and thatcher and Florence Mary (nee Harvey) White. Born at Timberscombe on the 5th of April 1913 (78), Jim (as he was mostly identified) had a younger sister Margaret (Maggie) White, born in 1917 (79) and who is pictured in SP-076, third from the left end of the front row. Both Jim and Maggie are well remembered in Timberscombe but seem to have had restricted lives. They never married, were still living and working with their parents on the 1939 Register and at the time of their respective deaths in 2009 and 2008, Jim and Maggie White still lived together in Glenborough, Cutcombe (80). Late in life, Maggie said she could not leave her brother. Like his father, Jim was a capable farmer and thatcher but didn't know how to open even a can of food to feed himself (81).
The two boys on the right of Billy Baker are not identified but the second girl from the right end of the row (next to Trinet Holland) is Rita Hole. Rita was born in December 1912, to the well known photographer, Herbert (Bert) John Hole of Swain Street, Watchet and Alice Maud (nee Williams) Hole. Rita was baptised at St. Decuman's in Watchet (82). Admitted to Timberscombe School in October 1916 (83), Rita would have likely attended school in Watchet but her father had died at a young age in January 1915 and her mother was born and raised in Timberscombe (84). Rita Hole married Raymond C. Lambert in the Taunton District in 1931 (85) but that marriage does not seen to have lasted-- Mr. Lambert was working as a Retail Clothiers Assistant in 1939 at Burnham-on-Sea, listed as "Married" but with no sign of Rita (86). She married John Hargreaves at Taunton in 1941 (where her surname was listed as "Lambert or Hole"), had a son, Nigel, born in 1941 and she died, as Rita Maud Hargreaves, aged 92, at Bournesmouth, Hampshire (87).
Almost cropped out of the photograph, on the left end of the front row is the boy identified as "BILL CLATWORTY 'LIGHTENING'". His full name was William Ernest Clatworthy, born the 22nd of March 1913, the son of Ernest Clatworthy, a Labourer and Rosina (nee Chapman) Clatworthy. He was called "Lightning" all his life "because he was slow" but was also known as a "lovely big fellow". Bill was admitted to Timberscombe School in April 1918, at which time his family was at Allers (also seen as "Alders"), a farm site of post-medieval origins, that consisted of two detached cottages and was a short track away from Heber Vale, where so many others in this photograph had lived but where Elsie and Gilbert Gooding 's family were concurrent to the Clatworthys being at Allers (88). Despite Allers' history, it will soon be demolished and in these last years, both it and Heber Vale were the home of various farm labourers and their families, people like the Prole family, that often moved quickly when offered work elsewhere. On the 26th of August 1918, just four months after young Bill Clatworthy's enrollment, four other boys, all also from Allers, were admitted to Timberscombe School. One was Leonard Chapman, a nephew of Bill's mother (89). The others included Joseph and William Holland, the gipsy brothers that Salome Wallace had already admitted the previous January. They had left after a few months but now were back, joined by a younger brother, John Holland (90) --not to be confused with Trinet's brother of the same name. Miss Wallace was likely not thrilled.
Whenever Allers was demolished, the Clatworthys made their way to Great House Street in the village. On the 1939 Census, at the house later called Overdale, Bill still lived with his parents. HIs father was working as a Farm Carter and Bill, who grew to be over six feet tall and was described as a "gentle giant", became a "Quarry Man". Great House Street remained Bill Clatworthy's address when he passed away in August 1971 (91).
Unfortunately the penciled identification on the photograph's reverse gets a bit askew on the front row. Besides the confusion of which girl was Daisy Baker, a "TOMMY WEBBER" is identified but it is not clear which of the two remaining boys, in the centre of the row, he is meant to be. Regardless he would be Thomas James Webber, born on the 2nd of March 1912 and was baptised the following 28 April by his parents, Thomas John and Bessie (nee Farmer) Webber (92). He has a younger brother, Robert William Webber (93), visible on the front row, fourth from the left, at SP-076. Before World War I, the family had lived and worked at Harwood Farm (94). During the war, Thomas John served with the Royal Tanks Corp, during which time his family relocated to Hole's Square, where they were when Thomas James was baptised (95). Post-war, the family would be at Combe Farm and when the kids were grown and gone, their parents ended up at The Gardens, cottages on Brook Street (96). At that time, the father, Thomas John Webber, was photographed with the Timberscombe Football League of 1929 -1930, pictured at SP-168. The senior Thomas was a robust man and favours the larger boy, seated on the left in the photograph. Thomas James Webber died in September 1996 at Stamford, Lincolnshire (97).
Head Teacher Salome Wallace resigned on the 22nd of July 1932 (98) and passed away in 1947. Assistant Teacher B Wallace continued at Timberscombe School until 31 March 1936 (99) and lived until 1959. Like her sister, she is buried in the St. Petrock's Churchyard but not as Miss B. Again she was Elizabeth Isabella Wallace (100).
Creator
Anonymous
Source
Date
1923
Contributor
Language
English
Identifier
The older students at Timberscombe School in 1923 with Assistant Teacher, Miss Elizabeth Wallace / Timberscombe, at the western end of the village centre
Acquisition Date
2019
Acquisition Method
Gift
Category
PLACES: Schoolhouses / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Known (and Unknown) / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Occupations / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Known (and Unknown) / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Occupations / Timberscombe
Condition
Good
Condition Notes
entered by Tom Sperling
Condition Date
2023
Dimension Type
W X L
Dimension Units
cm
Dimension Value
12 X 18
9.5 X 14.5
9.5 X 14.5
Institution Name
St. Petrock's History Group
Notes
(1) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910 - 25 March 1947, page 183 (2) Victoria County History.ac.uk (3) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872 - 31 August 1892, pages 96 and 97 (4) Timberscombe School, ADMISSION REGISTER, 1897-1944, Nos. 345 and 367 (5) "TIMBERSCOMBE TITHE MAP 1843", Source: Somerset Record Office, Taunton, as researched and drawn by John Burns, Timberscombe School, February 1989 (6) the Huxtable home became known as Pump House around 1922, VCH, and became known as Tiki Cottage around the 1980s, as recalled in 2019 by Marion (nee Huxtable) and Roger Fewlass, current owners of Tiki Cottage, who moved to Minehead in the summer of 1921 (7) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910 - 25 March 1947, page 250 (8) 1939 England and Wales Register (9) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (10) as pictured at SP-163 and SP-164 (11) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, 1944-2012, No, 570 (12) TimberscombeVillage.com / History of Timberscombe / Other Historic Structures / Cowbridge Mill, written by Lesley Webb (13) examples can be seen at SP-173 , Dudley Huxtable cricket player, SP-168, football player, SP-174, football coach and SP-178, cricket coach (14) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 (15) 1939 England and Wales Register (16) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, 1897-1944 (17) 1939 England and Wales Register (18) as seen at SP-123 (19) as recalled in 2022 by Jenny Hansford of Dorchester, who grew up as Jennifer Bond, the daughter of Frank and Constance Bond, Post Master and Post Mistress of the Timberscombe Post Office at Little Farthings (20) as seen at SP-171 and SP-172 (21) as seen at SP-169 and 1939 England and Wales Register (22) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (23) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 (24) as recalled in 2022 by Jenny Hansford and in 2020 by Maurice Huxtable, the nephew of Muriel (nee Huxtable) Baker and who lived at Ye Olde Malthouse (changed to The Old Malt House in 2023), semi-detached to Brooklyn (25) as recalled in 2022 by Joy Booth of The Knapp, Timberscombe but as a child lived outside of the village at Stowey Farm and was picked up for school in a bus driven by Billy Baker (26) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (27) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 346 and 347, England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 and Somerset, England, Church of England, 1813-1914 (28) 1901 England Census (29) "THE KNOWLE ESTATE, DUNSTER, SOMERSET, Sales Particulars of the Knowle Estate Sale held on Thursday, July 20, 1916, Lot 25, page 41 (30) the Baker family was at Rosemont on 14 January 1918, when Daisy Baker was readmitted to Timberscombe School after being out with sickness, Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 347 (31) as recorded on the Timberscombe School Admission Register, Nos. 379 and 424, when Francis Baker and Henry Baker were respectively enrolled (32) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (33) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910- 25 March 1947, pages 228, 257, 264, 268 and 380 (34) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-25 March 1947, pages 255, 250, 271, 276, 291 and 293 (35) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 347 (36) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (37) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (38) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 369, 393 and 423 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 (39) Somerset, England, Church of England, Baptisms, 1813-1914 (40) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 361 and 362 (41) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-35 March, 1947, page 145 (42) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-25 March 1947, page 287 (when Frederick Holland is summoned by the Dunster Police and absent all day) (43) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 438 (44) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-25 March 1947, page 278 (45) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (46) as recalled in 2020 by David and Wendy Cook, who built their house, Blackball House just east of the site of Hill Cottage, demolished in 1979 (47) England & Wales , Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 and Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 318 and 354 (48) Somerset, England, Church of England, Baptisms, 1818-1914 (49) 1911 England Census (50) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 318 and 354 (51) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Indexes, 1916-2007 (52) 1911 England Census (53) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 370 (54) Somerset, England, Church of England, Baptisms, 1813-1914 (55) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 321 and 370 and "AWAY & HOME-WORLD WAR II, Somerset and Essex, 1939-1945" by Pat Herniman, published by Papermill Books, Little Baddow, in association with the Little Baddow History Centre, 2016 (56) 1939 England and Wales Register and Schofield/Cadwalader/Hughes Family Tree, Tree Search, Harry Prole, Ancestry.com (57) "AWAY & HOME-WORLD WAR II, Somerset and Essex, 1939-1945" and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (58) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 357 (59) Somerset, England, Church of England, Baptisms, 1813-1914 (60) Western Times, Exeter, Devon, 23 October 1914, Central Somerset Gazette, Wells, Somerset, 16 October 1914 and 1939 England and Wales Register (61) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (62) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (63) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 325 (64) UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices's Indentures, 1710-1811 and Somerset, England, Church of England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1531-1812 (65) the building of Sunnyside, as described at SP-047 (66) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-25 March 1947, page 240 (67) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (68) 1939 England and Wales Register (69) as recalled in 2022 by David McCluskey, the nephew of Beatrice Hole (70) as recalled in 2020 by Eric Holmes of Overdale, Timbercombe, who worked with Maggie Brewer at Sunnyside in the late 20th century (71) as recalled in 2019 by Elisabeth Powls, the current owner of Sunnyside and as recalled in May 2020 by Dr. Mike Currie, who ran the surgery at Sunnyside from 1987 until it closed (72) as recalled in 2020 by Erica Holmes (73) as photographed by Joyce Smith of Ford Cottage and seen at SP-047 (74) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 317 (75) 1891 England Census (76) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER No. 317 (77) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (78) Somerset, England, Church of England, Baptisms, 1813-1914 (79) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 417 (80) Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Indexes, 1987-2019 (81) As told to Jim Bruce of East Harwood Cottage by Maggie White before her passing , who knew Jim and Maggie White and who presented a large framed photograph to Jim and Terry Bruce, of a c. 1914 to 1918 hunt on Draper Way that was shared with the St. Petrock's History Group and is visible at SP-132 (82) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 and Somerset, England, Church of England, Baptisms, 1813-1914 (83) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 335 (84) "Secure the shadow, Somerset photographers 1839-1939" by Robin Ansell, Allan Collier and Phil Nichols, The Somerset & Dorset Family History Society, 2018 (85) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (86) 1939 England and Wales Register (87) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, All England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, Results for Hargreaves, Ancestry.com, England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (88) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 365, Historic Environment Record, Exmoor National Park, MSO8331 and "THE KNOWLE ESTATE, DUNSTER, SOMERSET", Sales Particulars for the Knowle Estate Auction, Thursday, July 20th 1916 (89) Rosina Clatworthy's father was William Chapman, the younger brother of Leonard Chapman's father, Charles Peter Chapman, 1881 England Census (90) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 361, 362 and 364 (91) the descriptions of Bill Clatworthy were given by Ernie Munson, a World War II evacuee that lived with the Clatworthy family during the war and who stayed in the area after the war, "MILES FROM HOME, EVACUEES IN TIMBERSCOMBE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR" by Alan Hines, copyright 2022 by Alan Hines, page 36 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (92) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 328, England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 and Somerset, England, Church of England, Baptisms, 1813-1914 (93) Timberscombe School Admission Register, No. 425 (94) 1911 England Census (95) UK, British Army World War I Service Records, 1914-1920 (96) 1939 England and Wales Register (97) England & Wales, Civil Registration, 1916-2007 (98) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-25 March 1947, page 359 (99) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910- 25 March 1947, page 391 (100) Find My Past.com, England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2007 and St. Petrock's Levelling Lists of Graves, 1971
Storage Location
St. Petrock's History Group Archive
Storage Date
2023
Storage Notes
St. Petrock's History Group PHOTOGRAPHS
Item Reference
SP-247
Technique
Copies
Citation
Anonymous, “A 1923 Photograph of Timberscombe Schoolchildren with (likely) Miss B Wallace,” St. Petrock's History Group, accessed May 8, 2024, https://stpetrockshistorygroup.omeka.net/items/show/3518.
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