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The top photograph depicts a postcard of the cottage known as Little Farthings, on the northeastern edge of Timberscombe. It was built in 1929 (1) and first appeared on the 1921-1943 Ordnance Survey Map, with another newly built house to its right. …

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

A photograph, dated 1909, that features R. Poole's Shop, a Grocer, Tailor and Draper in Timberscombe. It was run by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Poole.

An 1882 Indenture records the selling of Lion Inn, the public house in Timberscombe, to Mr. Joseph…

An undated photograph of homes and shops along the southern end of Timberscombe's Brook Street. Another photograph, dated 1909, is seen at SP-034 and depicts the cottages in the centre of this photograph with alterations that indicate this photograph…

An undated photograph, used as a postcard, of Addison's Folly, the road entering the western side of Timberscombe. It was probably just as easily known locally as "the Cutcombe Road", indeed coming from the direction of Cutcombe and Wheddon…

An undated photograph, used as a postcard, of Bickham Manor. The house and outer buildings of the estate are on the lower third of the photograph, just visible through the tree branches. Bickham is located southwest of the village of Timberscombe,…

"Timber" is derived from the Latin "domus", meaning a dwelling. It's more modern use as a form of lumber likely derives from this origin, in the sense of a place where one resides, likely built with beams, planks and other wood. "Combe" is Welsh,…

Two copies of a photograph of Timberscombe, taken from a southeastern angle on the hillside over Willow Bank. The top and darker version of the photograph was one of the first photographs donated in 2018 to the St. Petrock's History Group by Joy and…

Two copies of a photograph, dated c. 1909, taken outside of the first post office of Timberscombe, during the time it was at the cottage called Berrowcote. It is situated on Brook Street, at the northern edge of the village and is the first cottage…

This photograph (seen twice here) is basically the same view as seen at SP-021, which is dated c.1909 and SP-024, dated c.1989. The photograph seen here is undated but is likely c. 1930, possibly taken in 1936.

The three photographs feature the…