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North of the Village

Last updated: 22nd March 2017

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Aerial view of the north of the village

Aerial view of Lansdown Crescent 1952

Parish’s-House — Aerial view of Parish’s House

Aerial view of Parish's House 1952 — Aerial view of Parish’s House 1952

Aerial view of Timsbury School 1930s

Lansdown View

Lansdown View

Lansdown View

North Road, Timsbury — North Road. This picture shows the Co-Op before alterations were made. The corrugated iron building next to the Co-Op later became the YMCA.

Radstock Co-op in North Road — Radstock Co-op in North Road. This is probably the opening ceremony in 1916.

Radstock Co-op in North Road

Radstock Co-op in North Road

nr17 — VG Supermarket (McColls)

nr14 — The Youth Club is on the former site of a second hand furniture store, later a boot and shoe repair shop which was then taken over as an ‘Occupation Centre’ for the unemployed in the 1930’s. It was extended and used until about 1960 as a hall for entertainments and dancing.

View looking east along North Road with Tabor Farm on the left.

Tabor Chapel — Tabor Chapel. Jobie Goold’s barber shop is to the right of the chapel. The small building on the right was used as a tailor’s shop for many years.

View of Tabor Chapel. The single storey building by the chapel was used as a parish office by Henry Cox when he was Overseer and Parish Clerk 1918-24.

Tabor Chapel in North Road

Coombs' cycle shop in North Road — Coombs’ cycle shop in North Road. L-R Sonny Coombs, unknown, Alec Tucker, Mrs Coombs, Percy Thatcher and Bill Coombs

nr4 — Car parked outside the Coombs’s shop in North Road

Congregational Chapel and Timsbury Service Station

The Church Room (The Legion)

nr18 — The Church Room (The Legion)

The Church Room (The Legion)

The Church Room (The Legion)

Cross roads at Timsbury

Miners-Welfare-Hut — View of the Miners Welfare Hut on the site of Conygre Hall and The Recreation Ground.

The Avenue

lych-gate-1 — The Avenue

avenue-4 — The Avenue

avenue-3 — The Avenue

avenue-2 — The Avenue

avenue-1 — The Avenue

lych-gate-2 — The Avenue

The-Avenue — The Avenue. The entrance to the Ha Ha is on the left.

The Ha Ha

A view along Ha Ha towards The Avenue in 1950s — A view along the Ha Ha towards The Avenue in the 1950s

Hayswood Road

Hayswood Road

Lippiatt Lane

View of Old Bloomfield

Aerial view of Old Bloomsbury — Aerial view of Old Bloomfield

The Rising Sun Bloomfield — The Rising Sun Bloomfield, now the site of a house called The Forge.

Outing from the Rising Sun, Bloomfield.

black-dog-painting — The Black Dog Sign

Foundry Cottages

Notley's Shop Bloomfield — Clarice Notley’s Shop on Timsbury Road. Clarice sold sweets, food and cigarettes. It became a shop in about 1935, before then the building was derelict.

bloomfield-forge — Job Dascombe’s Boot and Shoe Repair Shop at Bloomfield

bloomfield-mission-hall — On the right is the old Bloomfield Mission Hall. The Dove and the bakery were in the buildings in the background.

Escott House

Sleight Farm — Sleight Farm. It is suggested that the farm was built from stone of the Dower House that used to be close to Timsbury House.

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