Kingsbury Time Travellers

Kingsbury Time Travellers Archiving the parish, past and present; community involvement; meetings with guest speakers; projects around the parish; celebrating the parish.

Kingsbury Episcopi Parish Archiving Group has evolved from the work of the History Group. Its aims are to actively archive the people, events and buildings of the parish, collecting video and audio recordings, photographs and artefacts; and to make this archive available to all. Projects include: involving the community in digging Test Pits to search for archaeological remains; surveying the old

buildings; constructing parish trails; recording and researching masons marks in the churches; commemorating the people named on the war memorials; recording employment in the parish; holding regular meetings, exhibitions and events; publishing books of the parish; working with local groups to explore the history of the parish and its people; making the archive accessible through social media - Facebook and our website; and more......

Kingsbury Band Concert Thursday 24th September
03/09/2026

Kingsbury Band Concert Thursday 24th September

Drayton Fair this Saturday - The History Tent..... well worth a browse and well done Drayton History Group, thank for in...
31/08/2026

Drayton Fair this Saturday - The History Tent..... well worth a browse and well done Drayton History Group, thank for inviting us along and will be looking forward to bringing things along from Kingsbury neighbours.........

St Martins Church. In 1621 - 1622 extensive renovation work was undertaken on the Tower and its bells. The South West He...
27/08/2026

St Martins Church. In 1621 - 1622 extensive renovation work was undertaken on the Tower and its bells. The South West Heritage Trust has amongst its extensive archives, an original document titled - Charges of the Tower. The document is list of work carried out, the names of those who worked on the renovation, the materials used and so on. This original is in the form of scrolls stitched together. It is remarkable in itself. In this post is a recording you can listen to by Nick Frost, the present Captain of the Tower. He is reading extracts from the document. A bell is mended at a foundry at Compton Dundon, whilst the Vane is brought down from London..... The map is dated 1886 and shows a channel with water -in blue - running behind the Church and forming a moat around a piece of land- Plot 350- now built upon at Orchard Lane and Best's Field. Archaeology suggests that this was a moated Bishops Palace, perhaps of the 10th century and pre- Norman. The channel connects with the River Parrett and runs to the north of the Church. The Parrett would have been used for water transport with flat bottomed barges for materials such as hamstone.

Tony & Lynda Hollis of Gawbridge Mill reading some old newspaper cuttings about the Mill from the 19th century. The Pari...
13/08/2026

Tony & Lynda Hollis of Gawbridge Mill reading some old newspaper cuttings about the Mill from the 19th century. The Parish had two Mills recorded in the Domesday Book, one at Thorney and one here at Gawbridge. Other images here show graffitti left in the 1940's by the local Home Guard who doodled cartoons of Hi**er, Stalin, and Winston Churchill.

Some photos from The Rusty Axe. Who can spot who ? Who else has photos from bygone days at the Rusty ? Please be in touc...
31/07/2026

Some photos from The Rusty Axe. Who can spot who ? Who else has photos from bygone days at the Rusty ? Please be in touch. Also visit - www.kttarchive.org.uk

A great photo of the Rusty Axe "after a fire" popped up on our Facebook feed recently.......this photo is from the 1950...
29/07/2026

A great photo of the Rusty Axe "after a fire" popped up on our Facebook feed recently.......this photo is from the 1950s, when the pub was called The Ash Inn. Would whoever shared the after a fire photo please email us with that photo - so we can add it to the Parish Archive... We have many other images of The Rusty, and a couple of fires, but not that one.....Thanks

21/07/2026

Mark Melbourne, Ben Leach and Rachel Rees reading the poetry of James Crowden from In Time of Flood written in 1997 - Throwing - Firing the Wood Kiln - Unloading. A poem about the magical alchemy in the act of creation. This Saturday 25th.....July Open Day at The Muchelney Pottery .........10am to 4pm.

The River Parrett - This year's May Festival theme. The landing photo - Thorney Mill- was taken by George Wright in 1996...
17/04/2026

The River Parrett - This year's May Festival theme. The landing photo - Thorney Mill- was taken by George Wright in 1996 when he worked with James Crowden on the publication ... In Time of Flood. This was part of the promotion for the then newly launched Parrett Trail as a result of The Parrett Trail Partnership. The poem is by James Crowden. The short film extract is from the Clive Gunnell HTV series of 1987 and includes an interview with the Mill Owner of the time, Gordon Merryweather. It also includes Brian Howard of Thorney talking about his work with withies - the growing, preparation and harvesting of one of the key industries in the area. Please be in contact with films, photos which you feel would add to the archive. Thanks ...... onwards. A River Runs Through Us.......

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