Last week’s Mystery Photograph kept you on your toes with many differing answers. Thank you to Somerset Coalfield Life for supplying the photograph, taken of W Dennis, Family Butcher, Timsbury.

W Dennis, Family Butcher, Timsbury
W Dennis, Family Butcher, Timsbury (Radstock Museum )

Well done to those of you who guessed Timsbury correctly:  Jeff Parsons, Colin Button and Paul Hancock. 

Thank you to Rosemary Burchill who said: “Newman’s Lane Timsbury Square, Bridges the Butchers sold in the adjacent shop; tobacco, sweets, fireworks, and was also licensed to sell ammunition for sporting guns.” 

Thank you also goes to Eric Brain, who said: “I immediately recognised this picture as being Timsbury by the style of the stone building.  

“The butcher’s shop and the  grocer’s next door  was situated until comparatively recent years,  where Newman’s Lane  passes into the Square. 

“The Fish and Chip shop, “My Plaice”, which I  have visited regularly over past years, is the next shop along to the right of the  scene. Two new  houses now occupy the site of these old shops.”

If you have a historic image of our area suitable for our Mystery Photograph feature, please email: [email protected] or bring them in to: The Journal, Paulton House, Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7SX.