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Cricket in Bampton through the twentieth century
Bampton Cricket Club 1890 to 1990.Cricket team all named - Bampton Cricket team, date not known but probably between the two world wars. All the players are named on the photograph.A967. Bampton Cricket Club 1881 includes J. Baker, G. Smith, F.W. ...
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The Eeles family, their shop and family tree
These are photographs and documents and family trees all to do with the Eeles family.EDWARD ~2 - Edward Rolls in his cousin's (the Hon Charles Rolls) model plane. Edward Rolls was related to Grace Eeles of Eeles grocery store (now Budgens 20...
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The Eeles family, here and in Canada and some family trees
This photograph is of the Eeles family. There are pages about the branch of the family that emigrated to Canada, pension awarded to Ebenezer Eeles and his discharge certificate and pension notification and a form from the dispersal hospital centr...
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Sam Bennett sharpening a scythe. Sam played fiddle for Francis Shergold's Morris men at Whitsun. He lived in Warwickshire and walked to Bampton. He used to stay with Mr & Mrs Townsend at Castle View Farm and stayed for a while to work on...
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St Frideswide, A Legend of Bampton by Margaret Nettlefold of Bampton Manor
Margaret Nettlefold lived at Bampton Manor in the early decades of the C20th. I can't find why she wrote the play and if she had any group of players in mind. St Frideswide is reputed to have escaped capture in Oxford and come up the Thames...
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Book 4 of 4 by Terry Crowley recording Bampton people who do voluntary work in the community
In 1983 Terry Crowley started a project to record with photographs the people who did voluntary work in the community. He made up four photograph albums with information written by each entry. These can be looked at in the Vesey room.The other alb...
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Book 3 of 4 by Terry Crowley recording Bampton people who do voluntary work in the community
In 1983 Terry Crowley started a project to record with photographs the people who did voluntary work in the community. He made up four photograph albums with information written by each entry. These can be looked at in the Vesey room.The other alb...
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Book 2 of 4 by Terry Crowley recording Bampton people who do voluntary work in the community
In 1983 Terry Crowley started a project to record with photographs the people who did voluntary work in the community. He made up four photograph albums with information written by each entry. These can be looked at in the Vesey room.The other a...
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Book 1 of 4 by Terry Crowley recording Bampton people who do voluntary work in the community
In 1983 Terry Crowley started a project to record with photographs the people who did voluntary work in the community. He made up four photograph albums with information written by each entry. These can be looked at in the Vesey room.The other a...
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Tony Allam baking the last batches of bread before Constables closed c1981
Tony Allam was the baker for Mrs Constable for many years. The shop was by the roundabout opposite The Talbot and is now the Chinese takeaway called Mark's Kitchen. These photographs show the beautiful ovens and all the surrounding area.BA8...
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Horace Holifield invites the Bush Club members for lunch at his home in Ramsden
Horace Holifield invited the Bush Club members to have their lunch at his delightful home in Ramsden July 23rd 2008. Fenella Gray cooked the meal while Horace entertained the members by playing his organ. Some members chose to eat indoors while ...
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Midsummer Fayer June 21st 2008
The Bampton Community Archive organised a Midsummer Fayer for June 21st 2008. It was a lovely afternoon; Doug Read and Toby played a game of chess which was shown by humans in wonderful costumes playing showing the moves on a board pained on to t...
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Flowers outside Adrian Simmonds' 24.7.13 west side Market Square
Adrian Simmonds ran a shop on the west side of the Market Square selling pet food, a vast range of household items, cigarettes and snuff and sweets. Outside, his window boxes and general floral display made the whole area a joy to behold througho...
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Fiddles & Feet play and dance 2004, 2008 and 2012
The pictures record Fiddle and Feet playing and dancing at the Midsummer Fayre held at Bampton Manor June 21st 2008 and before that, learning a new dance in the Village Hall. There is reference to their playing and dancing in the Market Square as...
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Demolition of the Market Square Garage and building of Thornberry Flats
Adrian Simmonds lived on the west side of the Market Square and took these photographs to document the demolition of the Market Square Garage and the building of Thornberry flats which are for sale to those who are 55 years plus. During the build...
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Arnold Woodley's scrapbook of the Pumpkin Club
Arnold Woodley started this scrapbook with newspaper cuttings which record its inception in March 1969. In 1979 he handed his scrapbook to Max Norman to continue adding items. In March 1969 The Pumpkin Club was formed. Meetings were held in The...
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POST, M.O. & T.O., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office. Thomas Wells Pembrey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Faringdon at 5.30 am & 3.30 pm; dispatched at 9.10 am & 8.30 pm (box closes at7.50 pm); dispa...
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Pages from the ledger of a Bampton tradesman
These are pages from the ledger of a Bampton tradesman in 1951 and 1952. Sadly, whoever did these scans failed to note whose ledger it was the work done by a jobbing builder make interesting reading. They record work done for:-Henry Long & S...
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The Malt Shovel Inn was in Lavender Square and sold Belcher and Habgood's noted Ales & Stout. They also kept pigs and sold sausages and bacon and also vinegar from a barrel. Still called the Malt Shovel it is now a private dwelling with...
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Les and Stella 'King of Kings of Bampton' and later, the Post Office
LESLIE THOMAS KING (10th March 1927 – 5th October 2012)Les was born in Coventry in 1927 to Gertrude and William King; a brother to Bill, Mary, Terry and Roselyn. He attended King Henry VIII Grammar School, passing his School Certificate in six su...
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Shops and business in and around the Market Square
1k. Cheapside can be seen from outside the west side of the Town Hall. The date is pre-1907 because Eton Villas had yet to be built in place of the thatched building in the centre of the picture. The George and Dragon inn is there as is Goodman...
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Mark Woods from Bampton dies from neglect after blunder by ATOS
Witney Gazette July 1st 2015. “Mark Wood weighed just 5st 8lb when he died of starvation. ATOS healthcare did a reassessment of his ability to work and declared him fully fit, without consulting Dr Ward in Bampton surgery. His mental condition ...
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T.W. Pembrey, department store in the High Street
T. W. Pembrey had a department store in the High Street and it is the only department store that has ever been in Bampton. It took up what today (2018) are three separate dwellings and a shop. Across Bushey Row opposite the Morris Clown is a lit...
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No1 Broad Street in dire need of refurbishment
People who have lived in Bampton for several years will have watched the steady decay of No1 Broad Street. Nothing was done to maintain the building inside or out until 2006/7 when Brenda Florey bought it and had it made good. Ann Flute bought i...
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Lascelles Gazetteer Bampton and Aston 1853
Lascelles Gazetteer of Oxon, Bampton. Alphabetical list of trades and professions. Classification of trades and professions. Millers, dairymen and farmers, fellmongers, fishmonger, glove manufacturers, grocers and tea dealers, hair dressers, ha...
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The Morris Clown, previously The New Inn and originally The George
The pub in the High Street named The Morris Clown (as at 2018) began life as The George. Steve the present landlord found the ancient wooden name board in the cellar but it fell to dust when he tried to lift it. A long time ago it became the New...
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Parish Council Minutes February 1902 re proposed well in Market Sq
Long before we had a clean, mains water supply in Bampton, everyone relied on water from wells. These Parish Council minutes, copied from the original minutes by Lloyd Hughes Owens, document the push for a well in the Market Square. It was event...
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New National Health System July 5th 1948
The National Health System was brought into being on July 5th 1948. This publication was sent to every household explain what the National Health System is and how it would work. The first part tells people to:-choose your doctor nowmaternity se...
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On May 22nd 2014 there elections for our MEPs. Keith Taylor an existing MEP for the Green Party stood for re-election and was joined by Alexandra Phillips for the South East . MEP Laurence Stassen stood again for the South East and was keen for...
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Martin Barrett stood for the Bampton, Clanfield and Black Bourton ward, Paul Wesson stood as an Independent for Witney and Stuart Macdonald offered his services as the Green Party candidate for Witney. Flyers for all three candidates are in the ...
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This flyer for Martin Barrett, Conservative, was the only one to come through my door although there were candidates from other parties who, unsuccessfully, stood for election to represent Bampton and Clanfield ward at the election on May 22nd 2014
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Local Elections 2015 for Oxford, W Oxon + Bampton & Clanfield
On May 7th 2015 there were elections for a Witney West and Bampton candidate to sit on Oxfordshire County Council. James Mills, Conservative, stood and got elected. Ted Fenton stood and was successful as the Conservative candidate for Bampton an...
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High Street shops in late C19th and C20th
The New Inn in the High Street which was later renamed The Morris Clown in 1973; it started life as The George. Stevens the grocery shop became a shoe snob's shop and then a wet fish, fruit and vegetable shop before becoming a private dwellin...
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The horse fair in Bampton used to be a really big event similar to the one at Stow and the one at Appleby. Horse were kept in a field on the east side of Bampton and owners paid a few pence per animal. During the day they were tied along the len...
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The Highway Code published by the Minister of Transport 1946
On one level, this Highway Code booklet published in 1946 by the Minister of Transport with the authority of Parliament for the guidance and safety of all road users is amusing when viewed in the context of road users today, but on another level, ...
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General View of Agriculture in Oxon carried out in 1807
A general view of agriculture in Oxfordshire carried out in 1807 and published in 1813. Secretary of the board. Arthur Young. Rates, thrashing mills and tillage. Drilling, wheat, beans and tares. Cattle and Labour.Bampton and its hamlets of Ha...
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A photograph of Frank Drinkwater in his WWI uniform at his garden gate.A photograph of Bill Drinkwater in bull fighter's clothes for the fun of the picture.Bill's character reference and certificate of discharge from the Royal Field Arti...
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Blacksmiths at Cromwell House, Cheapside late nineteenth and early twentieth century
1. Seen with a horse and their families, the blacksmiths Townsend and Wheeler are outside their home, Cromwell House in Cheapside. The door to the right of the bay window has since been removed and the wall filled in.2. The blacksmith Mr Cripps...
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Colin Knight 1943 to April 22nd 2017
Bampton Morris Men in Glebelands in 1991. Colin Knight and the team with a painting of Colin dancing the Broom Dance.Bampton Morris Men. Colin Knight dancing the Broom Dance and Colin Bathe on melodeon 1989.Sam Bennett of Ilmington dancing the br...
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Frank Hudson's family photographs
Frank Hudson was raised by his grandparents, Albert and Mary Elizabeth Townsend who lived at Castle View Farm opposite the Elephant and Castle in Bridge Street. Frank's mother died when he was just 7 weeks old. The pictures show his grandpa...
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Your Gas Mask and Masking your windows. WWII
Knowing that gas had been used in WWI the general public of all ages were issued with gas masks in WWII and this leaflet was produced by the Lord Privy Seal's office in July 1939 and given to all households.Your Gas Mask: how to keep it and h...
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Gardener's Gazetteer of Bampton, Aston & Cote 1852
Lloyd Hughes Owens went to the trouble of finding the Gardener's Gazetteer of Bampton, Aston & Cote 1852 long before the day so of the internet and typed them out. This is the booklet he created.
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The pictures were created from celluloid negatives measuring five inches x four inches created in 1904 that were sent to the Archive by Lucinda Leech. The chairman of the Witney photographic club very kindly made positive images out of them which...
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Harry Pocock, local thrashing agent
Harry Pocock with his thrashing machine and tractor in 1958 driving out of Church Street into Broad Street. Edwin, Ruth and Joe Buckingham are on the tractor with him. Before farmers had combine harvesters, Harry went from farm to farm thrashing...
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Some of the Properties for sale during 2017
These adverts from the Witney Gazette were taken from the Witney Gazette during 2017. There were other properties for sale but not advertised in the Witney Gazette.
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Robert Courts MP Annual Report 2016-2017
This is the annual report 2016-2017 put out by Robert Courts MP for Witney and West Oxfordshire
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Public footpaths in and around Bampton
These four maps show the footpaths in and around Bampton plus the waterways, pubs and bridleways
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History of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths of the Scarrott family 1718 to 1891
This is a record of the Scarrott family, which is also spelt Scarott, Scarrot, Skorrett, Scariot, Skerrett, Skariott, Skarratt, and Scarot.Christian names included:-AmeliaAnnCarolineCharlesCorneliusEdwinEliElizaElizabethEmanuelEsauEsterEzraFranci...
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Bampton Classical Voices sang at St Mary's in December 2017 to celebrate the feast day of St Beornwald, the patron saint of Bampton who is so obscure that nobody knows who he or she was. Bampton Classical Voices was founded by Gilly French a...
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Bampton C of E Primary School Nativity December 2017
This is the Witney Gazette report of Bampton C of E Primary School Nativity play in December 2017. The children dressed as angels are Noah, Paisley, Paige, Megan and Poppy. The three kings are Archie, Rory and Ella.
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'Rocky', Ernest Hunt in the Elephant and Castle. Rocky was a much loved character in Bampton, always taking part in any event. He was known as Dicky to his family. When Ernie died, his birth certificate showed his real name was Ernest ...
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Indenture made the fourth day of May One thousand eight hundred and fifty nine
This document, an Indenture made May 4th 1859, has been typed out by Miriam James to make reading it a little easier. She has kept faithfully to the grammar, spellings, bold type, capital letters and a complete lack of punctuation so typical of t...
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The Death of Tim Tomlins October 6th 1936
Tim was a very well known character around Bampton particularly because of his steam engine The Lord Nelson which was at his home at The Swan in Buckland Road. For many years he grew cyclamen and many Bamptonians have specimens in their gardens t...
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The death of Brian Shurey September 21st 2017
Brian was a much loved man who took a very active part in many aspects of life in Bampton. I hope one day his family will give me a copy of their eulogy so that this memory of Brian can do him the justice he deserves.
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Wood Green school bus crashes; 3 die and 16 hurt February 3rd 1972
In icy and snowy conditions the bus bringing children from Wood Green School to Bampton crashed at Hoppy's Corner killing two boys, Gary Gerhardt from Bampton and Gary John Hawkins from Clanfield. At least 14 of the 46 pupils on the coach we...
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Chris Timms May 15th 1926 to December 16th 2017
Chris Timms aged 17 in 1943 wearing Royal Navy uniform in the picture. The sound recording was made on April 15th 2004 and Christ talks about his time in the Navy in a mine sweeper.Chris Timms and friend Michael Hirons in Church View in 1933. No...
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Your Food In War-time produced July 1939
This leaflet produced in WWII called 'Your Food In War-Time'. Public information leaflet No4. Issued from the Lord Privy Seal's Office July 1939. The contents cover the areas:-What the government has done.How you can help.Food su...
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Letters regarding the proposed Inclosure of Common Fields in Aston and Coate
These letters were recovered from a box full of solicitor’s papers. They show the correspondence in 1834 between Rev. B Price, of Aston, Bampton, and Mr George Harcourt, who was the Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire from 1831 to 1862.Mr Pryce,...
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Fiddles & Feet in the Market Square June 2nd 2012
Bampton celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II through the day and evenings for four days from the Saturday 2nd of June. Fiddles and Feet entertained us royally in the Market Square in the afternoon of Saturday June 2nd with the dan...
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Women's Institute Drama group won Oxfordshire Federation cup 1924
This is the cast, in costume, of the WI Drama group which performed 'Much Ado About Nothing' and won the Oxford Federation Diana Cup 1924. After handing back the cup in 1925 Colonel Bliss from Bampton House gave them a replica one to ke...
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1a. March 6th 2003. Letter from the holder of Dr Davey's scrapbook, D R Staples, when it was sent to the Bampton Archive. Dr Davey lived at The Elms.1b. Dr T R Davey's note that reads ‘Scraps, advertisements & cuttings' which he...
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Bampton Castle Research paper by Dr. John Blair - Anglo Saxon Bampton. 1988
This is the publication Dr John Blair gave out when he gave a series of talks in the Town Hall in Bampton.
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Cycle ride to raise the need for a cycle pathway Bampton-Tadpole Bridge
In 1999 there was a mass cycle ride organised to highlight the need for a cycle pathway from Bampton to The Trout Inn at Tadpole bridge on the Buckland Road. The bridge crosses the River Thames. Young and old took part but sadly, it did not lead...
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Bampton's cricket club through the twentieth century
Cricket team all named - Bampton Cricket team, date not known but probably between the two world wars. All the players are named on the photograph.A967. Bampton Cricket Club 1881 includes J. Baker, G. Smith, F.W. Taunt, Rev. J.W.B. Bell, G. Taylor...
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Short recording of Ivy Constable talking about her bakery in the Market Square
This is a sound record lasting three and a half minutes of John Simpson from Radio Oxford talking with Ivy Constable.See entry number 2017.538 for much more detail about the shop.
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December 2003, gardens ready for Christmas and work in the Market Square
These are pictures of just a few gardens in December 2003. Some people have put outside Christmas decorations up, some have stone ornaments there all year round and major work is being done around the Town Hall.
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Thrashing with an old Ransome thrashing machine
Colin Rouse told me:-"The chap helping me carry the sack is Pete Webb, Brian Webb’s brother. They owned a thrashing machine between them but they never got round to finishing the rick. This was such a shame because it was a bumper crop of t...
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St Mary's choir boys on an outing to Southsea in 1947
In 1947 no girls were allowed in the choir at St Mary's which was quite normal in most churches at that time. In the summer of 1947 these 9 choirboys were taken on an outing to Southsea as a treat. Back row L-R Bill Daniels, Philip Addison,...
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Postcards to and from home during WWI and WWII
These postcards were sent during WWI and WWII. They are between the Townsend family who lived at the Elephant and Castle during WWI but across the road at Castle View Farm in WWII. There are cards to and from members of the Flux family who lived...
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Bampton and Brize Norton Railway station
Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1959.Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1961, this time in colourA freight wagon and engine at Brize Norton and Bampton stationA steam engine pulling three ...
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St Frideswide. A legend of Bampton by Margaret Nettlefold
Before the days of TV in Bampton, the well to do members of the community used to put on plays and musical evenings for people to enjoy and they were also the performers. This play was written by Margaret Nettlefold who lived at Bampton Manor. S...
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Terry, Janet, Keith and Brian Rouse May 29th 2013
Terry Rouse came to live in Bampton in 1943 aged 9. His father Reg Rouse had been farming in Somerset at Upper Langford and George Collins had a field next to the farm where Reg was working. George bought Weald farm and advertised for a farm man...
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This Bampton Village Appraisal was done in 1998. The areas covered include household data, how time is spent, education, housing and development, utilities and public services, health, social services and and community care, transportation, socia...
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In October 1966 the planning officer for Witney Rural District Council, M W Robinson, produce his report on a Bampton Appraisal. The areas covered include the population size, (1,600) Character, the people, principal road connections, schools, op...
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Rose Gerring, born December 12th 1923, died September 2013
Bampton was very much enriched by the life of Rose Gerring because she took such an active part in so many areas and you can read about them in the eulogy. The two photographs - one was taken just post WWII at her home Sandford House and the othe...
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Bill Daniels aged 12. Bill grew up to become a Morris Dancer with the Bampton Traditional Morris Dancers and for many years, from the age of 12 he was a member of the Mummers when they were reformed in 1946. The newly reformed Mummers in 1946 wer...
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Spring Gardens around Bampton in 2004
These pictures were all taken in Bampton in the spring of 2004. They show the flowers popular at the time in both small gardens and manor gardens. Fashions in plants change over the years so it was felt worthwhile to record this time.
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WI Drama Group perform Aladdin. March 7th 1975
The Women's Institute chose Aladdin for their annual pantomime in 1975. Carol Court played Aladdin; the princess by Sally Verdon, Sylvia Barney played Widow Twanky, Edna Amos was the Wicked Uncle, Ann Irvin was Sing-Sing and Audrey Court was...
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Old Folk's Memories collected by Lloyd Hughes Owens in the 1970s
Lloyd Hughes Owens, headmaster of the National School in Church View up to its closure when the new school opened in 1960 was keen to capture the knowledge and thoughts of the 'Old Folks' of Bampton and this pdf is the result. It covers...
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The war graves in Bampton's Cemetery
War graves in Bampton Cemetery.War grave of:-1. A.G. Martin, ordinary seaman. died 3rd November 1918 H.M.S. Pembroke. Service number SS/9671.2. Lance Corporal S. Clark of the Royal Fusiliers. Died 28th May, 1915 aged 25.3. George Frederick Baylis...
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Edwin Eley's forms re his industrial accident and claim for special hardship allowance
Edwin Eley had an accident at work resulting in diminished use of both arms and tender right lower leg. The forms show the tortuous process involved in getting financial assistance.4 pictures. A leaflet produced by the Ministry of National Insura...
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Growing tobacco, curing, processing and more
I have no idea how the Archive came to have this item, it was in a box of all sorts handed to me to scan and put on the website. It is however, an interesting read all about the cultivation, curing, processing, making the leaves into a cake and c...
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There was a general election May 6th 2010 and the flyers in the pdf were sent to homes in Bampton and I imagine others also. They were from David Cameron, Conservative; Stuart Macdonald, Green Party; Colin Bex the Wessex regional candidate so I d...
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On May 7th 2015 there were elections for MPs at a general election. There are a couple of newspaper articles here but the other 42 items are all flyers by David Cameron, Conservative; Andy Graham, Liberal Democrat; Christopher Tompson, UKParents ...
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Alan Clarke, landlord of The Horse Shoe dies September 29th 2013
Alan Clarke died suddenly on Monday September 29th 2013. He was landlord of the Horse Shoe in Bampton. The article gives far more information about Alan's working life
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From the Witney Gazette February 28th 2018.“George and William Wilkinson, both born in Witney in the early 19th century, helped design key public buildings in the centre of Bampton that are still used to this day.Collected by archivists, pictures ...
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Parts of Bampton have always flooded, It's low lying country and in a really heavy downpour the water table rises and people get flooded. In 2008 Kit Jackson, then in her late 80s told me when she was a girl, the children were taken in a cr...
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Felling the dead elm trees behind Glebelands mid 1970s
With the dreadful spread of dutch elm disease in the late 1960s and on into the 1970s most trees died and had to be cut down before they blew down. The change in our landscape was very noticeable losing these magnificent trees. These two picture...
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Terry Rouse and 'The Italian Job'
When Francis Shergold's Bampton Traditional Morris Men went to dance in Italy in 1978 they learnt a new dance. When they went to do the dance on Whit Monday in Bampton, Terry Rouse couldn't remember the name they'd given to the dan...
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The Elephant & Castle Inn in Bridge Street
These pictures give a flavour of the appearance of the Elephant & Castle through the twentieth century and on into the twenty first when it became a private dwelling. Starting with a time when transport was mostly horse-drawn, then with a bul...
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The Eagle pub started life with the name of The Masons Arms having been built by a mason. Not on one of the main roads in Bampton it was very much a local's pub and the head quarters of Francis Shergold Traditional Bampton Morris Men until i...
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Bampton Church Bellringers' savings book 1959-1972
This savings account with the Midland Bank was used to earn interest on monies received by the bellringers, for ringing for weddings, who during the period of this savings account used the money to buy new ropes when needed and grease to lubricate...
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Colonel Michael Roberts 1912-2005 & wife Diana 1917-2013
Colonel Mike Roberts and Diana came to live in Bampton when Mike retired from the army. His early army career was in India and Burma and he and Diana came back to the UK just before partition. An interview with Diana can be found at https://yout...
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Bridge Street in the twentieth century
These photographs show the changing face of Bridge Street mostly though the twentieth century. If anyone knows who the three young boys are outside the Elephant and Castle please tell the Archive via the link on the home page and quote 2018.1379....
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The Bell Inn, in the Market Square
The building that was The Bell Inn is now (in 2018) the Village Hall. In these pictures you will see it behind the railings and next to a shop on its western side called Robinson which sold meat and general stores. On its eastern side was a bake...
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A Bampton CE School Project called Bampton Through Time
The children achieved a wonderful result with their research and the topics covered include:- a typical village; a changing settlement; an iron age settlement; archaeological evidence; the legend of St Frideswide; Domesday book; the manor house; B...
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Bampton tokens & coins of Simon Bassett, Walter Lardner and John Tull
SIMON BASSETT 1669. Simon Bassett paid tax on five hearths in 1662 and 1665: in the former year he signed the tax returns as cons table. His will was proved in the Consistory Court on 2.6.1681 (Reg. A, 284 V): he is described in it ...
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Bampton Bullets, Bampton's Cycle Speedway team in the early 1950s
Bampton had a cycle speedway team in 1952 which certainly lasted for two full seasons. Someone near the track complained about the noise so it was disbanded. The cycle speedway in New Road, circa 1952/3. The Bampton side was known as the Bampto...
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Photographs taken around Bampton 1980s and 1990s
Hilda Kent went around Bampton recording several areas in the late 1980s and early 1990s and these are her pictures.
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Don Fidler, bagman for Arnold Woodley's Morris side
Don Fidler was Arnold Woodley's bagman for several years
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