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"Bampton Bush Centre was started in 1985 for the older residents of Bampton. Now, 2017, over thirty years later it has developed into a lively, flourishing social and lunch club open to anyone of any age locally to enjoy a bit of friendly co...
Bampton Community Archive
Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1961
Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1961, this time in colour. For an excellent piece of research and lovely photographs do have a look at http://www.fairfordbranch.co.uk/index.htm
Bampton Community Archive
Document detailing the sale of Calais Farm in 1984 (9 pages to view)
A PDF document of 9 pages detailing the sale of Calais Farm in 1984 by Moore, Allen and Innocent for Mr Bryan Stevens. About 185 acres freehold with vacant possession for sale by private treaty as a whole or in six lots
Bampton Community Archive
Certificates won by Bampton Fire Brigade in 1905, 1912 and 1921
Bampton Fire Brigade won the National Shield in Crystal Palace in 1904. Their skill continued as can be seen from these certificates awarded for wins in further competitions in 1905 and 1912 also at Crystal Place and 1921 in Ramsgate.
Bampton Community Archive
The Great Shirt Race in Bampton, 2017
On the late May Bank Holiday The Great Shirt Race takes place in Bampton. There is a children's race and then an adults' race. These newspaper articles are all about the race in 2017.
Bampton Community Archive
Princess Anne at RAF Brize Norton to celebrate 100th year of 101 Squadron
Princess Anne went to RAF Brize Norton as part of the celebration of the 100th year of 101 Squadron, which flew as part of Bomber Command during WWII. It still operates in the Middle East. There is much more information in the article.
Bampton Community Archive
These two photographs are of the Drinkwater family, one a family wedding and the other one a family group. If anyone can give me names and dates please use the link to the Archive on the front page of this website by clicking on Bampton Community...
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Bridge Street first half of C20th
This picture postcard shows Bridge Street from opposite Sherbourne Villas looking east. The nearer pub is the Wheat Sheaf which became the Post Office in 1972. The thatched pub is the Elephant & Castle. The barn on the angle of the turn int...
Bampton Community Archive
Ada Tanner, Albert & Florence, around 1915-16
This postcard was lent to the Archive by John Broxholme, who is a descendant. John said "As you can see the picture is well worn, but at least it survived as long as it did in France. Remarkably the creases have managed to miss the faces! ...
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Mr Bovington's safe return from the Falklands War is celebrated
The photograph shows the joy and celebration of the return of Mr Bovington from the Falklands War - he is standing at the front of the group with his mother Yvette and they are surrounded by families who live very close to them in Bampton
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Constable family baptised, married and buried in Bampton 1849 - 1949
These are all people with the Family name of CONSTABLE baptised, married and buried in Bampton
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Witney and surrounding village prepare against bombing in WWII
Each week in the Witney Gazette Derek West writes an interesting article usually about somewhere or some one person associated with Witney. In this article he talks about the bombs that dropped in Witney and surrounding villages. While he does n...
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Classical Opera at The Deanery 2017
Each year, Bampton Classical Opera offers a real treat for people to enjoy opera in the grounds of The Deanery. People take chairs, a picnic and a blanket, sit at tables and quite simply have a treat at a fraction of the price you'd have to ...
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Skills crisis in the broiler chicken industry
Patrick Hook of PD Hook, one of the UK's largest meat chicken hatchery businesses, expresses his fears for getting skilled workers after Brexit. Much information in the article, very well worth reading, explaining the possibilities of appren...
Bampton Community Archive
General election, June 8th 2017
A surprise General Election was called by Prime Minister Teresa May for June 8th 2017. She hoped to get an increased majority but after a truly dreadful campaign, she ended up dropping from a starting point of 27 points ahead of Labour to a hung ...
Bampton Community Archive
Changes to recycling in West Oxfordshire
From October 2017 West Oxfordshire will have fortnightly collections of recycling materials and glass and general rubbish. A wheelie bin will be provided for all recycling except glass, which will go into one of the black boxes we have been using...
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Crime is up over the last 12 months from June 2016
The County's crime figures show Violence, Robberies and Burglaries are all up for the 12 months up to June 2017. In Cherwell and West Oxfordshire they are up by 12.5%. The article gives you much more information.
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Death of Brenda Sapsford May 24th 2017
Brenda Sapsford came to live in Bampton when she retired from being secretary to David Johnson, the NFU secretary in Witney. She was an active member of the WI in Bampton while it lasted and was also a very efficient Parish Clerk in Bampton. Sev...
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SPAJERS Donkey Derby 2017 in Sandfords Field
The SPAJERS (Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing) organise a Donkey Derby in Sandfords Field on August Bank Holiday Monday each year. It is one of their main fundraising events which enable them to take two coaches of senior citizen...
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Pte William Johnson's granddaughter supports the Popply Appeal 2016
Pte William Johnson rescued a fellow soldier while under fire and having been shot in the leg. Sadly, the comrade he rescued died the following day but he was awarded the Military Medal and received a citation from King George V and the people of...
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Frank Hudson's family photographs
Frank Hudson was raised by his grandparents, Albert and Mary 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 grandparents, aun...
Bampton Community Archive
These photographs are all from Kit Jackson's collection. Kit took photographs for most of her adult life. There are several of her family members plus WWII soldiers probably billeted in Bampton, school classes from the 1970s when she worked...
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This is Bampton Town Football Club from the 1906-07 season. Just 10 men in the picture, not known if there was one missing or if that was all they could muster.
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Town Hall, the Drapers shop & The Talbot seen from Cheapside
This picture was taken from the middle of the road in Cheapside. On the left is the Town Hall with nearly all the archways filled in; the two on the right in the sunshine were unblocked so the space inside could be used as a bus stop shelter a li...
Bampton Community Archive
View of High Street from The Grange to the Market Square early C20th
This picture was taken from the middle of the road outside The Grange looking up towards the Market Square very early in the twentieth century. The present day Morris Clown was then called The New Inn; originally it was The George.
Bampton Community Archive
Weald Manor in the very early C20th
This photograph, made into a postcard is of Weald Manor in the very early twentieth century
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Bampton Community Shop re-opens in new premises
The Community Shop was forced to close down at the end of 2015, but when new premises became available, almost next door to their previous shop, a wonderful group of people set to and got the new shop up and running and opened on January 26th 2017...
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The Townsend family who lived at No4 Town House, High Street
At the start of the C20th the Townsend family ran a Cycle shop in the house now called No4 Town House, High Street. The photographs show mother Susan with her children Rita, Lucy Elizabeth, Colin. Colin was the father of Phyllis who you can see ...
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1904 winning Fire Brigade team from Bampton at Crystal Palace
In 1904 Bampton's Fire Brigade won the regional finals and so went to Crystal Palace to take part in the National Competition, which they won. The photograph shows the men who went to Crystal Palace
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First motorised fire pump for Bampton Fire Brigade on or after 1939
The first motorised pump for Bampton Fire Brigade came in 1929. This photograph was taken either in 1929 or very soon afterwards. The picture may be at Thorny Croft. It cost the Parish Council £250. A separate pump was housed alongside and con...
Bampton Community Archive
Postcards written in 1905, 1907 and 1908
These postcards were posted in 1905, 1907 and 1908. Three are to Miss K Phillips at The Lodge, Stanton Harcourt and one to Mrs W J Johnson at Syringa Cottage, Aston. Syringa is the Latin name for Lilac so one would hope the cottage had at least ...
Bampton Community Archive
This cutting from The Times newspaper May 16th 2017 suggests there is to be a film version of Downton Abbey with filming to start in September 2017. By July 22nd (the date of this entry on the website) nothing more has been heard and our Parish C...
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Program for the play 'Barnet's Folly' by Jan Stewer in the W. I. Hall in 1937
This is the program for the play called 'Barnet's Folly' by Jan Stewer which was put on in the W. I. Hall (now the Village Hall) on March 10th, 11th and 12th 1937. People who acted included Norah Sant, Arthur Colvile (Weald Manor)...
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Freda Bradley - funeral program and eulogy
Freda Bradley, born April 13th 1927, died April 14th 2017 always took a full part in the life of Bampton right from her childhood and she was proud to be born and bred here. She wrote a lovely book about her life here which has proved to be a del...
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Jacky Allinson of Bampton Parish Council on Planning, Parking and the Cemetery extension
Jacky Allinson, chair of Bampton Parish Council, writes in the March issue of The Beam about the Parish Council's struggles against planning applications coming in thick and fast for large housing developments. She also writes about the now ...
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Bampton Cricket Club division 5 winners 2016
This article comes from the March 2017 issue of The Beam. Bampton-in-The-Bush Cricket Club won division 5 in 2016 securing their fifth promotion in 6 years. The article gives a good account of the club and hopes for the future.
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West Ox Arts, Art, Craft and Design in Bampton by Diana Homer, Trustee
This article about West Ox Arts was in the March issue of The Beam. The article mentions trustees Pip Shuckburgh and Sue Turner and members Jill Tweed, Philip Hicks,Leslie Williams, Nik Stanbridge, Marie O'Hara, Rebecca Hunt, Audrey Hobley, ...
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Obituary. Squadron Leader (ret'd) Stuart Luff Pierce, MBE
This obituary for Stuart Luff Pierce MBE was in the March issue of The Beam. Stuart was born in 1932 and died suddenly on December 27th 2016. Stuart and his wife Jesse made their home in Bampton in 1970. He was an active member of various chari...
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Theft of lead, twice, from St Mary The Virgin Church, September 2016
This article comes from The Beam March 2017 issue and documents the theft of lead, twice, from the north aisle of St Mary The Virgin Church. It also give details about the choir, Coffee & Co which began as a way of people forced out of their ...
Bampton Community Archive
Liz Leffman Liberal Democrat, flyer for June 8th 2017 General Election
A general election was called after just one year of The Conservatives being in power with a small overall majority. PM Teresa May thought she would increase her majority but her whole way of electioneering proved disastrous for the Conservatives...
Bampton Community Archive
Laetisia Carter, Labour candidate flyer for General Election June 8th 2017
A general election was called after just one year of The Conservatives being in power with a small overall majority. PM Teresa May thought she would increase her majority but her whole way of electioneering proved disastrous for the Conservatives...
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Robert Courts Conservative candidate flyer for General Election June 8th 2017
A general election was called after just one year of The Conservatives being in power with a small overall majority. PM Teresa May thought she would increase her majority but her whole way of electioneering proved disastrous for the Conservatives...
Bampton Community Archive
Clare Lasko, Green Party flyer for June 8th 2017 General Election
A general election was called after just one year of The Conservatives being in power with a small overall majority. PM Teresa May thought she would increase her majority but her whole way of electioneering proved disastrous for the Conservatives...
Bampton Community Archive
Liz Leffman flyer for June 8th 2017 General Election
A general election was called after just one year of The Conservatives being in power with a small overall majority. PM Teresa May thought she would increase her majority but her whole way of electioneering proved disastrous for the Conservatives...
Bampton Community Archive
Liz Leffman Lib Dem candidate flyer for June 8th 2017 General Election
A general election was called after just one year of The Conservatives being in power with a small overall majority. PM Teresa May thought she would increase her majority but her whole way of electioneering proved disastrous for the Conservatives...
Bampton Community Archive
Preparing for Emergencies, what you need to know, updated January 2017
This booklet was produced for all households in the Central South England area to help households plan for just about any type of emergency. The booklet was supported by Thames Valley Police, Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue Services, Buckinghamshir...
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Last 27 photos of the 2017 Great Shirt Race
These are the last 27 photographs of the 2017 Great Shirt Race. The other photographs are in entry 2017.1164 and 2017.1165
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Bampton's Great Shirt Race 2017
This is the second set of 30 photographs of the 2017 Great Bampton Shirt Race.
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These photographs show the fancy dress parade before the races and the races of the children and adults. There are 87 photographs in total but they are split into 3 successive entries on the website because of the file size and this is the first ...
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A flyer produced to advertise Bampton Folk Club, open every Sunday from 7-9pm in the Village Hall, every Sunday from July 23d. Contact Andy on 07788 398186 andrewroughton@hotmail.com Just £2 entrance fee per night. People are encouraged to go ...
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Fly advertising Oxfordshire Art Weeks May 6th-29th 2017
Oxfordshire Art Weeks takes place each year. This flyer was posted to all households to say the art week would be May 6th-14th in South Oxfordshire, May 13th-21st in North Oxfordshire and May 20th-29th in Oxford City. There were to be 450 artist...
Bampton Community Archive
Fire Safety in The Home from Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue Service
This leaflet was produced by Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue Service and was picked up at the Bampton Community Archive Exhibition put on in spring 2017 by Tom Papworth on the history of the Bampton Fire Brigade.
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Flyer for three Bampton people exhibiting during 2017 Arts Week
A poster to advertise items made by Tuula Nicholson, Lesley Williams and Anna Lever which will be displayed for viewing and buying from 'Wisteria' in Church View.
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Warning about scam emails saying Council Tax refund is owing
Scam emails are being sent advising people a council tax refund is available, but of course, bank account details have to be provided. WODC advises people to delete the emails
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Clanfield Angling Club protect the Thames bank from erosion by cattle
Cattle drinking directly from the river Thames have been causing erosion of the bank. Clanfield Angling Club with help from TOE2, Grundons Waste Management, BBOWT and the Environment Agency helped to save and restore the section of the bank at th...
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Pothole gloom of a County Council Chief
David Nimmo Smith said the County Council was aiming to maintain the roads as best as possible but admitted without £160m extra there was no chance of real improvement.
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Points for and against a super Unitary Council for Oxfordshire
For many months there has been talk of a Super Unitary Council for Oxfordshire. These articles explain which councils are for the idea and those against. Oxfordshire County Council, Vale of The White Horse and South Oxfordshire are for it, West ...
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Proposal for 160 more houses in Bampton and application passed
160 houses have been in the process of being built along New Road 2016-2017. They were not selling quickly when an application was put in by Gallagher Estates Ltd to build another 160 in the field at the bottom of Mount Owen and Aston Road. Coun...
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Rumours of a Downton Abbey film are rife
There has been talk about the possibility of a Downton Abbey film being made for over a year as this article explains
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Oxfordshire County Council Election May 4th 2017. Flyers for Ted Fenton, Conservative
There were several candidates from other parties but only Ted Fenton of the Conservative party got flyers out to households in his area. Without access to the internet there was no way people could read about the other candidates. He represented...
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Traditional Morris Dancing, morning Bank Holiday Monday 2017
These photographs were taken before lunch on Bank Holiday Monday May 29th 2017. They are the Bampton Traditional Morris Men.
Bampton Community Archive
Service of Remembrance for Ray Borrett April 1944 - May 2017
Ray Borrett played a full part in the life of Bampton. A Morris Dancer with the Bampton Traditional Morris Men for 50 years, a keen gardener at home and on his allotment, scientist, barn dance caller for many years, keen member of CAMERA and more...
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Sub officer Arthur Beckley receives BEM at the County Fire HQ in Kidlington
Sub Officer Arthur H Beckley joined the NFS as a fireman at Bampton in 1946 and was officer in charge from 1960. I think this cutting is from a local paper approximately 1973. Arthur was awarded the BEM for his outstanding service
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Harry E Pocock in fireman's uniform 1934
Harry Pocock lived at No2 Broad Street and was the person who went around the farms in Bampton and out as far as a farm in Thrupp by Oxford to thrash the corn on farms before the days of the combine harvester. He was also one of Bampton's re...
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List of Fire Stations Fire Force 15 National Fire Service World War Two. Bampton Station D.2.Y.
List of Fire Stations Fire Force 15 National Fire Service World War Two. Bampton Station D.2.Y.
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Arnold Woodley & his musicians 1974 outside the Jubilee
Arnold Woodley and his musicians outside the Jubilee Inn in the Market Square in 1973. Frank Purslow on melodeon, Andrew Bathe on fiddle and Arnold on fiddle playing for the Bampton Morris Men
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Arnold Woodley's Junior Morris team outside the Talbot 1974
Arnold Woodley's junior Morris team outside the Talbot in 1974
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What was Arnold Woodley's team, the Bampton Morris Men at Glebelands 2002. Back row L-R:- Ken Adams, Brian O'Rorke ,??, Paul Smith (accordion), ??, Laurence Adams (Squire), ??, ? Adams, Bill Fowler, Barry Care (fool) , ?? behind , ??, A...
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Musicians with the Bampton Morris Men
Arnold Woodley squire of the Bampton Morris Men on the left playing the fiddle, Brendan Cassidy on fiddle in the centre and Frank Purslow on the right.
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Musician with the Bampton Morris Men
Arnold Woodley, squire and fiddler with Frank Purslow on melodeon and a young Andrew Bathe on fiddle playing for the Bampton Morris Men. Myra Titchener and Sonner Townsend in the background.
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Alec Wixey on the left with Roy Hewitt Morris dancing with Bampton Morris Men
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Sonner Townsend clocks up 65 years with the Morris
'Sonner' Townsend, real name Albert, started dancing in 1925. In 1980 when he was 76 he clocked up 65 years of dancing and fooling.
Bampton Community Archive
Improving access to Oxfordshire's countryside and green spaces
TOE2 is Oxfordshire's independent environmental funder, supporting projects that make real and lasting improvements to the environment and to the lives of local people. TOE2, a charity and a not-for-profit company has worked in partnership ...
Bampton Community Archive
During WWII many ladies from the ATA flew many types of aeroplanes, delivering them for the men to fly on active service and sometime acting as a taxi service to bring back ladies who had done the delivering. Two of those ladies were Molly Rose a...
Bampton Community Archive
Morris pictures over several decades
This collection of photographs was found in an outbuilding behind the Horse Shoe pub. They range from Reg Hall playing the fiddle, Francis Shergold play the melodeon, the Bampton Traditional Morris side c1970, c1995 and 1966 and on the steps of t...
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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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Kit Jackson's photograph collection
These photographs were part of the collection belonging to Kit Jackson; they are of her family, Morris Men, work colleagues, buildings, billeted soldiers in Bampton, pigeon fancier, friends, school classes and the mystery tours she used to arrange...
Bampton Community Archive
Floods outside the Elephant & Castle May 16th 1932
Flooding hit Bampton again May 16th 1932. The picture shows some people being given a piggy-back through the floods and two people being pulled in a pram.
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Postcard to Mrs W J Johnson September 28th 1905. Picture of Town Hall, Drapers & the Talbot
Picture postcard across the east end of the Market Square showing part of the Town Hall, The Drapers, The Talbot and Hythe House. It is addressed to Mrs W. J. Johnson at Syringa Cottage in Aston post dated September 28th 1905.
Bampton Community Archive
Picture postcard High St looking East from the Grange. To Miss K Phillips post stamp March 13th 1908
Picture postcard of the High Street looking east from outside the Grange. Addressed to Miss K Phillips in Stanton Harcourt. The New Inn and Pembrey's department store can be see with the steeple of St Mary The Virgin in the background. Th...
Bampton Community Archive
Picture postcard of Weald Manor addressed to Miss H Phillips, Stanton Harcourt January 17th 1908
This is a picture postcard of Weald Manor addressed to Miss H Phillips and date stamped January 17th 1908
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Bampton Football team 1906/7. Postcard May 13th 1907 to Miss K Phillips
This is a picture postcard of Bampton Football team in the 1906/7 season. The card has been sent to Miss K Phillips in Stanton Harcourt from Bampton on May 13th 1907.
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Fire Brigade at Crystal Palace July 1907
Bampton Fire Brigade won many tournaments and they did well in July 1907 at Crystal Palace which is where this photograph was taken for a postcard
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The White family who lived in Sandford Cottage from at least as early as 1900
The White family lived in Sandford Cottage, the thatched cottage on the south side of Sandford field from at least as early as 1900. These photographs cover the period 1910 to 1960. They are all family related, some babies, children, adults, in ...
Bampton Community Archive
Members of Frank Hudson's family
These photographs are all from the first half of the twentieth century. Frank William Hudson's father was William Cooper Hudson, his grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Townsend nee Portlock and his grandfather was Alec. Frank's Aunty Dora ...
Bampton Community Archive
Freda Bradley wrote a lovely book called 'Bampton; The Way It Was.' These are photographs of her parents and grandparents and of Freda when young with her brothers Jim and Ken with their grandmother Mrs Dewe, taken in 1937.
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Ted Dixey was known to most Bamptonians as a bellringer and Morris dancer. These are photograph of his maternal grandparents, his sister and husband Robert Ferguson, of Ted himself and his fiance of 40 years, Sylvia. Sadly, Ted was very deaf but...
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These photographs are very likely to have been taken in 1913. The fiddler dancing a jig to his own playing is William Nathan Wells, better known as Jingy."If those photos are 1913 it makes some sense, given that the collector Clive Carey was...
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Several newspaper items about Downton Abbey in Bampton, 2015 and 2016
Esther Hepworth grew up in Bampton as did her parents and grandparents. Esther was an Extra in Downton Abbey and she commented that dressed as an older lady, she felt she was walking in the footsteps of her great-grandmother because she lived in ...
Bampton Community Archive
AGGROW. Letter to OCC by chairman John Bowler - 14.3.17
AGGROW ie Anti Gravel Group of Residents in Oxfordshire West. Alvescot, Bampton, Black Bourton, Brize Norton, Broadwell, Carterton, Clanfield, Grafton/Radcot, Kelmscott, Kencot and Langford. Once again attempts are being made (March 2017) to ex...
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A letter to election candidates October 5th 2016 from Need Not Greed
"Need Not Greed Oxfordshire (NNGO) is a coalition of nearly 30 community groups from across Oxfordshire. Groups in the Witney constituency area include Rural Oxfordshire Action Rally (ROAR), Help Preserve Burford Campaign, Society for the Pro...
Bampton Community Archive
Details of the 8 bells in St Mary The Virgin church
This page gives information on the 8 bells that hang in St Mary The Virgin church - their diameter, the date they were cast and who made them.
Bampton Community Archive
A History of The Bampton Beam by Susan Phillips.
Susan Phillips began The Bampton Beam and this is her account of how it came into being.
Bampton Community Archive
Appeal for the restoration of the bells of St Mary The Virgin
The leaflet was produced to explain what needed to be done with the bells of St Mary's and the costs involved. By 1629 Bampton had a ring of six bells, a very early date for a ring of this number. They were probably all cast, or recast, by N...
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List of Bampton Traditional Morris Men c1981
This is a list of Bampton Traditional Morris Men c1981 plus people who regularly had a connection with the side. It is hand written by Dave Rose for Francis Shergold but does not have Francis's details on it
Bampton Community Archive
Downton stars big fans of Bampton butcher's bangers September 2014
Prize winning bangers made by a village butchers have taken on a whole new level of fame after being endorsed by Downton Abbey stars. The Bampton Royal pork sausages, produced on site at Patrick Strainge Butchers, were feasted on by the cast of t...
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Downton Abbey fans descend on Bampton Sept 28th 2012
Robin Shuckburgh, chairman of the Bampton Community Archive, explains that many coaches a week are coming with tourists keen to see where the outside scenes of Downton Abbey are filmed. The church has been used for weddings, nearly weddings and C...
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Downton filming in Bampton April 23rd 2014
Downton Abbey was being filmed in Bampton again in April 2014. Most of the actors are very obliging, willing talking with the younger generation and several Bampton people are extras. The filming takes place immediately around, and sometimes in,...
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Downton cash helps keep village library open
Robin Shuckburgh and Jane Wallis, from Bampton Library’s support team, with parish councillor Joanna Downing at the library.DOWNTON Abbey has brought prestige, glamour and tourists to the village of Bampton – and has helped keep paid staff at the ...
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Lloyd Hughes Owen's hand-written notes on senior people & typed out for ease of reading
About 1974 Lloyd Hughes Owens made these notes on people he referred to as Senior People. Simply, they are people who had influence and sway on life in Bampton and Weald. In the pdf document you'll see his handwritten notes followed by our ...
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