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Scroll through photographs of North Road, Lansdown View, The Avenue and Old Bloomfield.

Aerial view of Parish’s House
Aerial view of Parish's House 1952
Aerial view of Parish’s House 1952
Aerial view of Lansdown Crescent 1952
Aerial view of Lansdown Crescent 1952
Hook
Hook and South Road Junction
Hook and South Road Junction
Lansdown View
Lansdown View
Lansdown View
Lansdown View
Lansdown View
Lansdown View
Timsbury Senior School
Aerial view of Timsbury School 1930s
Aerial view of Timsbury School 1930s
Aerial view of the north of the village
Aerial view of the north of the village
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
Radstock Co-op in North Road
Radstock Co-op in North Road
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.
VG Supermarket (McColls)
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.
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.
View looking east along North Road with Tabor Farm on the left.
View looking east along North Road with Tabor Farm on the left.
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
Car parked outside the Coombs’s shop in North Road
Congregational Chapel and Timsbury Service Station
Congregational Chapel and Timsbury Service Station
Congregational Chapel and Timsbury Service Station
An aerial view of the original Timsbury Service Station building.
The Church Room (The Legion)
The Church Room (The Legion)
The Church Room (The Legion)
The Church Room (The Legion)
The Church Room (The Legion)
The Church Room (The Legion)
The Church Room (The Legion)
Upper Conygre Pit. The first shaft was sunk in 1791. It was at this pit that the largest lump of coal was raised – 25 cwt.
Coalpit Crossroads in the 1920s. The crenellated chimney of Upper Conygre Colliery can be seen. It was designed that way to make it acceptable to the inhabitants of Timsbury House. The tres on the right of Upper Conygre Colliery were also grown to provide a screen for Timsbury House.
Coalpit Crossroads in the 1920s. The crenellated chimney of Upper Conygre Colliery can be seen. It was designed that way to make it acceptable to the inhabitants of Timsbury House. The tres on the right of Upper Conygre Colliery were also grown to provide a screen for Timsbury House.
View of the Miners Welfare Hut on the site of Conygre Hall and The Recreation Ground.
View of The Sleight from Recreation Ground
Wheeler’s at Upper Conygre
The Avenue. The entrance to the Ha Ha is on the left.
A view along Ha Ha towards The Avenue in 1950s
A view along the Ha Ha towards The Avenue in the 1950s
The Ha Ha
The Ha Ha
The Avenue
The Avenue
The Avenue
The Avenue
The Avenue
The Avenue
The Avenue
Tom Evans who put in 45 years service as the village postman in 1911 at his house in The Avenue
Tom Evans who put in 45 years service as the village postman in 1911 at his house in The Avenue
Hayswood Road
Hayswood Road
Hayswood Road
Hayswood Road
View towards Old Bloomfield
View towards 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.
Outing from the Rising Sun, Bloomfield.
The Black Dog Darts Team. The Black Dog was another name name for the Rising Sun in old Bloomfield.
The Black Dog Darts Team. The Black Dog was another name name for the Rising Sun in old Bloomfield.
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.
On the right is the old Bloomfield Mission Hall. The Dove and the bakery were in the buildings in the background.
Job Dascombe’s Boot and Shoe Repair Shop at Bloomfield
The Black Dog Sign
Escott House
Escott House
Foundry Cottages
Foundry Cottages
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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