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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 of a drawing of Timberscombe's St. Petrock's Church, from a northeastern aspect, created in 1842. It is part of the Pigott Collection, founded by John Hugh Smyth-Pigott (1792-1853) of Brockley Hall and Grove House, Weston-super-Mare. He…

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…

Two copies of a photograph of the southern end of Timberscombe's Brook Street, with its shops, homes and residents. The photograph is undated but is probably c. 1909. In later Victorian times, it was the fashion to photograph a street with its…

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…

Above is a photograph of Duddings, the 17th (possibly 16th century) farmhouse (1), as pictured in a Sales Particulars booklet, THE KNOWLE ESTATE, DUNSTER, SOMERSET" prepared by Messrs. W. R. J. Greenslade & Co. for the Knowle Estate Auction of 1916.…

Two photographs of the farmhouse, Duddings, probably taken by Alfred Vowles in 1936 (1). The look of the photographs suggest Vowles and numbered labeling on the lower photograph is in the manner he utilised during this time period. In the later 20th…

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…

Two photographs of essentially the same view of Marigold Holme and The Great House, along Great House Street, Timberscombe. The upper photograph is undated. Labeled "TIMBERSCOMBE.2", it could be earlier 20th century, possibly as early as c. 1909…