17-600: Timsbury may refer to: Timsbury, Hampshire , England Timsbury, Somerset , England [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timsbury&oldid=933210916 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
34-423: A Cornish water mill (Addicroft Mill at Liskeard , which he called Penruin), which was sold before the book was published. He always loved old buildings, and in his autobiography, Wrestling with a Pencil , wrote about his joy in the beauty of old cottages. In the 1970s, Thelwell also illustrated the front covers of the first six James Herriot books in the series. An exhibition of Thelwell's drawings and cartoons
51-555: A boundary with the village of Michelmersh . It has a population of approximately 400 . The name "Timsbury" is derived from the Old English timber + byrig (dative of burh ), meaning 'timber fort or manor'. Timsbury has grown from a traditional village centred on the Manor House (now split into many dwellings) and the Church of St Andrew. Although there may have been a Saxon church,
68-450: A degree at Liverpool College of Art , then in 1950, he took up a post teaching design and illustration at Wolverhampton College of Art , but gave this up to work freelance in 1956. He became a contributor to the satirical magazine Punch , who first published his work in 1952, beginning a 25-year relationship that resulted in more than 1,500 cartoons, of which 60 were used as front covers. He also worked as political cartoonist for
85-457: A reputation as an accomplished wrestler and ‘cudgeller’ in the area. Even in those days cudgelling was a very old custom and especially popular in the West of England where great pride was attached to skills which were often handed from father to son. It was a fast and furious activity conducted brutally using a short club and the expression ‘to break a head’ was associated with the cudgeller's sport since
102-467: A trout pond, described in his 1978 book A Plank Bridge by a Pool. In modern Timsbury, the local amenities include a garden centre with cafe, a pub called "The Malthouse", a car sales garage, a fishery, St Andrew's Church of England church, a Jehovah Witness's Kingdom Hall , a recycling site, the Hunts Farm Sports Ground, and a pre-school. The ladies of Timsbury were bequeathed a hall which
119-560: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Timsbury, Hampshire Timsbury is a village and former civil parish , now in the parish of Michelmersh and Timsbury , in the Test Valley district, in Hampshire , England. It is near the town of Romsey , mainly along the A3057 road running north from Romsey towards Stockbridge , and shares
136-465: The News Chronicle from 1956 until the paper closed in 1960. His first collection of cartoons, Angels on Horseback , was published in 1957. Known to many only as "Thelwell", he found his true comic niche with Pony Club girls and their comic ponies, a subject for which he became best-known, and which led to a cartoon strip about such a pair, Penelope and Kipper . He also illustrated Chicko in
153-627: The British boys' comic Eagle . For the last quarter of a century of his life he lived in the Test Valley at Timsbury , near Romsey , gradually restoring a farm house and landscaping the grounds which gave rise in 1978 to his first factual book, A Plank Bridge by a Pool , which detailed the first two lakes he dug there. A third lake was later featured on the BBC 's South Today programme. Written much earlier, but published three years later, A Millstone Round My Neck described his experiences in re-building
170-556: The boaster he immediately took horse and left them. In time the Sharp family became well established in the Romsey area and during the 18th and 19th centuries many of them held important positions as merchants or influential citizens of Romsey. A brass floor plate in Romsey Abbey commemorates many of them. Cartoonist Norman Thelwell made his home in the village, in a remodeled farmhouse with
187-558: The current Grade II listed building dates from around the early 15th century and was badly damaged by fire on 9 March 2014. Historically, Edmund Sharp and his wife Alice moved from the county of Berkshire to Timsbury towards the end of the seventeenth century. A direct descendant of Edmund Sharp was Richard Sharp , once hailed as possibly being the most popular man in Georgian London. An interesting anecdote has survived concerning one of Edmund's sons, Richard, who, born in 1665 gained
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#1732869916615204-400: The sports pavilion. The villages share a common village design statement to guide development in the area. The local telephone exchange is located in nearby Braishfield , with most telephone numbers in the village 01794 368XXX. The parish publishes a bi-monthly newsletter distributed free to households in the parish. In 1931 the parish had a population of 257. On 1 April 1932 the parish
221-400: The victor was he who first drew blood from a gash to the head. The story recorded by his grandson and clearly cherished by later generations underlines the extent of Richard's physical prowess, While he lived at Romsey he of a summer’s day rode up to Timsbury, where he lived, where he had been brought up and where when young he had been so fond of wrestling. It so happened that a stage
238-451: Was abolished and merged with Michelmersh. Adjacent villages include Awbridge , Kimbridge, Mottisfont , Mottisfont & Dunbridge railway station , Lockerley , Houghton, Hampshire , Horsebridge railway station , Kings Sombourne, Braishfield , Hursley , Ampfield , Norman Thelwell Norman Thelwell (3 May 1923 – 7 February 2004) was an English cartoonist well known for his humorous illustrations of ponies and horses . He
255-836: Was also active as a comic artist, drawing the series Penelope and Kipper . Born in Birkenhead , Thelwell spent the Second World War in the East Yorkshire Regiment , having signed up at the age of 18 in 1941, and was art editor of an army magazine in New Delhi , India. His first published cartoon, in the London Opinion , was an Indian subject. In 1944, he took evening classes in art at Nottingham Art School . A fellow art student, Rhona, became his wife in 1949. They had one son and one daughter. After Nottingham, he took
272-405: Was erected and sitting on his horse he stayed long enough to see a man throw two or three men who had mounted the stage against him, till all were intimidated from entering the list; the conqueror …. triumphed on the stage with so much arrogance that my grandfather was tempted to humble him; therefore he got off his horse, mounted the stage, threw the boaster on his back and having humbled
289-549: Was used by the Women's Institute (WI), however, following a decline in local WI membership the hall was sold to the village band. The British Olympic athletics team trained at Timsbury Manor before the 1964 Olympics in September 1964 Many local facilities are shared within the civil parish of Michelmersh and Timsbury due to their close proximity, including the Jubilee (village) Hall and
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