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A photograph of bellringers taken on the 13th of May 1922, at a Ringers Meeting held at Timberscombe. Behind the assembly, the tower of St. Petrock's Church is visible. The group is gathered on what was called "the Club Field" (1), part of the…

A photograph of a group of the Timberscombe Bellringers and their driver, on what has been identified as a 1924 outing to Cheddar (1). They are in a charabanc, a large open-topped motorized vehicle equipped with rows of crosswise benches facing…

A photograph of the former S. J. Stenner's Butcher Shop and the former Stenner family home, Brook House on Timberscombe's Brook Street, being demolished. The shop (the building to the left) had been operated by Samuel James Stenner, born at…

The upper photograph, featuring the centre of Timberscombe, is one of the most well known depictions of the village. In 2019, a copy of it was framed and hanging in The Lion Inn (visible on the right side of the photograph) and it was one of the…

A photograph of the Village Square of Timberscombe. The photograph is undated but is likely c. 1910. In the centre background, the southern end of Brook Street is visible and on it's right is an open doorway. This was Poole's, a shop, ran by Mr. and…

A photograph, taken from the western side of the village of Timberscombe, featuring the front churchyard of St. Petrock's Church, with the bottom of Church Street in the background.

The photograph is undated but was likely taken around 1909. …

A photograph, identified as taken in 1915, of the Village Post Office and the main road into Timberscombe, commonly known as the Dunster Road, later becoming Brook Street. It can be seen curving left, where it will be parallel to the stream that…

An early 20th century photograph, used as a postcard, of Duddings, a three cell cross passage longhouse, likely 17th century (with some sources placing it in the 16th century), visible at the left foreground. This former farmhouse was further…

A gathering of men and boys, seemingly at the conclusion of a Timberscombe Club Walk, at Duddings, a farmhouse on the northeastern edge of Timberscombe. The men are members of the Timberscombe Friendly Society.

Friendly Societies were mutual aid…

An undated photograph, but likely the early 1900's, used as a postcard depicting the hamlet of Cowbridge, just northeast of the village of Timberscombe. At the time this photograph was taken, the road, classified as the A396 in 1922 (1), would have…