Mr Govier, father of Bill and Alan

• BCA - 2019.2209
• Item
• early C20th

Mr Govier work for Mr Wadman at Hobbs Buildings, the farm on the Brize Norton side of Bampton. He is seen here holding one of the bulls

Bampton Community Archive

Funeral of George Collins June 29th 2018

• BCA - 2019.2176
• Item
• Sept 22nd 1915 to June 5th 2018

George Collins and family came to Bampton in 1943 from Somerset when he bought Weald Farm. George lived to be 102 years old and was active almost to the last. The Archive filmed a conversation with George who talked about his farming life and yo...

Bampton Community Archive

Badgers in Oxfordshire to be vaccinated against TB

• BCA - 2019.2175
• Item
• January 2019

The debate about whether cows give badgers TB, badgers give it to cows or if the disease is simply in the soil continues as does the debate on whether mass shooting of badgers is the answer. In Oxfordshire, it has been decided that vaccinating th...

Bampton Community Archive

Threshing the corn using a steam engine to drive the threshing machine

• 2019-09-11/0
• Item
• c1900

Before combine harvesters were the norm, threshing was done any time from November onwards when other harvesting had been done and probably once the cattle had been brought in under cover for the winter. In this picture you can see a steam driven...

Bampton Community Archive

Thatched hayricks

• BCA - 2019.2173
• Item
• first half twentieth century

Before farmers had large barns to store their hay, they built hayricks and a rick thatcher would come and thatch them to keep the water out. It was a useful way of having a store of food near where it was wanted. This was a skilled job and Bampt...

Bampton Community Archive

Sweet Briar Cottage when it was thatched

• BCA - 2019.2166
• Item
• first half C20th

This charming little cottage used to be called Pedlar's Patch and today is called Sweet Briar. The gate is next to Emmies on Bridge Street and the house is set back from the road, behind other cottages. It was the home of agricultural worke...

Bampton Community Archive

1965 A pylon that once held a windmill on White Owl Farm

• BCA - 2019.2164
• Item
• 1965

1965. This pylon was the framework that once held a windmill on White Owl farm. The farm belonged to Bert and Ted Wilkins. As they were not intending to mend the windmill, Ray Evans from the Royal Corps of Signals based in Weald asked if his am...

Bampton Community Archive

Sales brochure for the Lew House Estate 2019

• BCA - 2019.2154
• Item
• 2019

Lew House and the attached estate was put on the market in 2019. It could all be sold as one item or lots of land could be purchased separately. This Knight Frank sales brochure gives all the details.

Bampton Community Archive

Morgan Brothers in financial difficulties 2011

• BCA - 2019.2150
• Item
• March 2011

This newspaper cutting talks about the financial problems of the Morgan Brothers. They own and rent much land in Sharney which is close to the Thames SE of Weald, so there is local concern about the farming of their fields.

Bampton Community Archive

Well found inside Castle View

• BCA - 2019.2055
• Item
• 2003

When work was done at Castle View, which at one time was Castle View farmhouse, a well was found. When the work to modernise was completed, the well was covered over and is now under part of the kitchen.

Bampton Community Archive

John Jaques from Bampton has been made chairman of the Under 30s Farmers' Club

• BCA - 2019.1944
• Item
• 2015

Witney Gazette March 11th 2015 notes that John Jaques from Bampton has been made chairman of the Under 30s Farmers' Club.John is no relative of Sue Jaques who used to own and run the shop that is now a private dwelling called No4 Town House o...

Bampton Community Archive

Leaflet produced January 1st 1947 regarding wild birds

• BCA - 2019.1922
• Item
• January 1st 1947

Leaflet produced January 1st 1947 regarding wild birds. It states which are protected all the time, some at certain times of the year and which birds' eggs may not be taken. By virtue of the Wild Birds Protection Acts 1880-1939 and an order ...

Bampton Community Archive

An invoice from R Oakey & Sons Ltd Haulage Contractors and Cattle Conveyors to Alec Townsend, Ash Tree farm in Weald Street. Feb 10th 1960

• BCA - 2019.1921
• Item
• February 10th 1960

An invoice from R Oakey & Sons Ltd Haulage Contractors and Cattle Conveyors. A load of tied straw from Mr R Smith's farm in Highworth to Ashtree farm in Weald Street. February 10th 1960 Cost £3.Alec had a 7-acre field in Welcome Way on ...

Bampton Community Archive

Newspaper clipping from the Witney Gazette April 4th 1958 advertising the weekly cattle market held in Witney

• BCA - 2019.1911
• Item
• 1958

Newspaper clipping from the Witney Gazette April 4th 1958 advertising the weekly cattle market held in Witney. In 1958 there were still trains from Bampton and Brize Norton railway station which made it easy to take cattle, sheep and pigs to the ...

Bampton Community Archive

Map of Edition of 1921: East half of Bampton, different details from the other one of the same area and date

• BCA - 2019.1892
• Item
• 1921

The map shows the area from the allotments north of Bampton down through the centre of Bampton to Primrose Cottages and East as far as the first cottages on the western side of Aston.It is interesting that there are references to Council Houses al...

Bampton Community Archive

Map of Bampton Estate at 1789

• BCA - 2019.1890
• Item
• 1789

This map shows the Bampton Estates at 1789. This is before the fields were enclosed and the names of the people who farmed the strips or the name of the field area are on the map. The Quies fields are each side of the Bampton to Brize Norton roa...

Bampton Community Archive

Map of Bampton at the time of the Inclosure Act 1821

• BCA - 2019.1889
• Item
• 1821

One of these maps shows the names of the fields and the waterways, important for growing and stocking fish are very clear, the second one is a photograph from a page in the Inclosure document held at St Lukes in Oxford and this shows the propertie...

Bampton Community Archive

The Beam: April 1990 vol. 5 No1

• BCA - 2019.1884
• Series
• April 1990

THE BEAM APRIL 1990. VOLUME 5 NO1. THE TOPICS COVERED :-Morris dancing on Spring Bank Holiday MondayPrefabs built after WWII originally called Portel HousesParish council history and coming elections. The first meeting of Bampton’s Parish ...

Bampton Community Archive

Home Farm, late 1940s

• BCA - 2019.1848
• Item
• late 1940s

Two pictures both taken in Home Farm farmyard, late 1940s. The farm house is on the High Street

Bampton Community Archive

Sale brochure for The Lew Estate September 23rd 1914

• BCA - 2019.1834
• Item
• September 23rd 1914

This is the sale brochure for The Lew Estate for sale on Wednesday September 23rd 1914. Listed as a compact Freehold Residential and Sporting Property of 614 acres 0 rods and 8 poles.Knight, Frank & Rutley were the auctioneers to be held at t...

Bampton Community Archive

Sales brochure for the outlying portions of the Lew Estate Sept 27th 1917

• BCA - 2019.1833
• Item
• September 27th 1917

By the direction of Mrs Upton, the particulars of the outlying portions of the Lew Estate including capital grazing and corn growing land extending about 365.5 acres with a rent roll per year of £397 4s 3d.Messrs Knight, Frank and Rutley auctionee...

Bampton Community Archive

Sale catalogue for Meadow Farm, Ampney Lodge, Bungalow, Accommodation field & Aston Meadows June 14th 1962

• BCA - 2019.1829
• Item
• June 14th 1962

The sales brochure is forMeadow Farm situated close to the river Thames at Tadpole Bridge about 1 1/2 miles south of Bampton lying on either side of Buckland Road - about 380 acres;Ampney Lodge which is the last house on the east end of High Stree...

Bampton Community Archive

Sale brochure for Calais farm January 15th 1959

• BCA - 2019.1831
• Item
• January 15th 1959

This is the sales brochure for Calais Farm, sold January 15th 1959 to Bryan Stevens who lived at Lime Tree House in High Street. The farm comprised a modernised farmhouse, farm buildings with modern cowshed, very useful arable and pasture land ex...

Bampton Community Archive

Sale catalogue Lower Haddon farm sale March 11th 1949

• BCA - 2019.1830
• Item
• March 11th 1949

A sales brochure for Lower Haddon farm Friday March 11th 1949. It includes the main farmhouse, three cottages and about 380 acres with approximately 48 acres sold subject Air Ministry Requisitioning. This farm is on the south side of what was th...

Bampton Community Archive

Sale brochure for The Grange, High St. Wednesday April 16th 1930

• BCA - 2019.1827
• Item
• Wednesday April 16th 1930

Sales brochure for The Grange, High Street by Messrs E.J. Brooks & Son on Wednesday April 16th 1930 by order of the executors. Looking at the pencil notes written in the brochure, the sale was withdrawn probably because it failed to reach the ...

Bampton Community Archive

Sale brochure for Weald Farm. Thursday May 13th 1943

• BCA - 2019.1826
• Item
• May 13th 1943

The sales brochure for the sale of Weald Farm, Thursday May 13th 1943. It was being sold because farmer Mr W.J. Butt had died and it was bought by George Collins for£9,500.George had come up from Somerset to see a friend who farmed near-by and we...

Bampton Community Archive

Sale of University Farm, Lew June 25th 1959

• BCA - 2019.1825
• Item
• June 25th 1959

University Farm was sold freehold by Nuffield College, Oxford on Thursday June 25th 1959 and was bought by Reginald John Rouse of Backhouse Farm for £19,450. The brochure gives all the details of the farm and there is a map showing the fields and...

Bampton Community Archive

The road menders

• BCA - 2019.1814
• Item
• early twentieth century

On right of the two men with the steam roller, Eddie Foreshew's Father (Mr Bishop) who worked on the roads as a road mender. He lived in a hut on wheels in Oxford during the week. He died of TB aged 49.Road workers and steam roller includin...

Bampton Community Archive

Re-thatching part of Sandford Cottage 1989

• BCA - 2019.1785
• Item
• 1989

Andy Cox, master thatcher re-thatching part of Sandford Cottage in 1989 for Jo Lewington.

Bampton Community Archive

Re-thatching 'Thatched Cottage' in Church Street in 1963 and again in 1985

• BCA - 2019.1786
• Item
• 1963-1985

The dwelling called 'Thatched Cottage' in Church Street was re-thatched in 1963 and again in 1985, the second time by master thatcher Mark Constable.This dwelling is one of the oldest in Bampton and you can read all about it on this webs...

Bampton Community Archive

Boys from school on an educational visit to Weald farm, to learn about farming c1947

• BCA - 2019.1784
• Item
• c1947

This group of boys are from the local school visiting Weald Farm in Weald Street. Reg Rouse was the farm manager for Mr George Collins. Reg's son Don Rouse says:-"Dad taught the senior boys Farming once a week. So this would be about ...

Bampton Community Archive

1898 Fowler steam roller

• BCA - 2019.1763
• Item
• 1898

John Wharton explained:-This is an 1898 Fowler steam roller. But there is a story that goes with it. In 1898 the employees of Fowlers of Leeds went on strike because they objected to their wages being reduced. The Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co...

Bampton Community Archive

1983 FFF&B Ploughing Match held at Weald Farm

• BCA - 2019.1756
• Item
• 1983

FFF&B (Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins & Burford) Ploughing match in 1983 held at Weald Farm. As well as all types of ploughs and tractors there is always a horse ploughing competition.

Bampton Community Archive

Hedge Laying competition in 1979

• BCA - 2019.1740
• Item
• 1979

A competitor at a hedge laying competition, part of the FFF&B Plough Match in 1979 held at Manor Farm, Broughton Poggs.A well layed hedge is stock-proof, provides a wind break for livestock and will last far longer than any post and rail fence...

Bampton Community Archive

The blacksmiths Townsend and Wheeler at Cromwell House in Cheapside

• BCA - 2019.1731
• Item
• early twentieth century

The blacksmiths Townsend and Wheeler at Cromwell House in Cheapside. The house in this picture is called Cromwell House and the one immediately to the right of it, just out of the picture is called The Old Forge and it is partly on the main road ...

Bampton Community Archive

Percy Sheppard who farmed in Buckland Road, born in 1894

• BCA - 2019.1726
• Item
• early twentieth century

Percy Sheppard, born 1894, lived and ran a small farm along Buckland Road. He was the father of Edie who became Mrs Edie Quick who was in turn the mother of Fenella.

Bampton Community Archive

Jack, Shadrack Buckingham in 1950 sitting on a binder.

• BCA - 2019.1721
• Item
• 1950

Jack, Shadrack Buckingham in 1950 sitting on a binder. Jack lived in Spring Cottages along Primrose Lane and worked for Jack Oliver at Backhouse Farm. He has grandchildren Helen Cadd, June Brewer and Richard Buckingham.Don Rouse said"My ear...

Bampton Community Archive

Frances & John Henly with children Roy and Margaret c1950

• BCA - 2019.1722
• Item
• c1950

Frances and John Henly with their children Roy and Margaret, c1950. John farmed Deanery farm and Hobbs buildings and they lived in Deanery farmhouse in Broad Street.

Bampton Community Archive

A few of the properties for sale in 2018

• BCA - 2019.1695
• Item
• 2018

These are just a few of the properties for sale in 2018. They do not include any of the 160 homes recently built by Cala Homes along New Road.

Bampton Community Archive

Central Garage in the Market Square

• BCA - 2019.1690
• Item
• mid twentieth century

Don Rouse recalls - "Central Garage was owned by a Mr Fayre at the time Dickie Alan’s was front of shop manager selling bikes oil, petrol etc. Bill Hudson, Frank’s dad was quite high up in the Tractor division. There were so many different ...

Bampton Community Archive

Daniels family outside their saddlery shop in Queen Street

• BCA - 2018.1608
• Item
• c1904

The Daniels family had a saddlery shop in Queen Street just after 1900. The little boy on the right is probably the grandfather of Janet Westman nee Bradley, who had drawn many local maps full of information.

Bampton Community Archive

Frank Hudson & his father Bill and Castle View Farm.

• BCA - 2018.1536
• Item
• c1944 2013

Frank Hudson was brought up by his grand parents Albert and Elizabeth Mary Townsend at Castle View Farm in Bridge street after his mother died when Frank was only 7 weeks old. Frank says he had a very happy childhood surrounded by a loving family...

Bampton Community Archive

Harry Pocock

• BCA - 2018.1534
• Item
• 1950-1963

Harry Pocock was the person who owned a thrashing machine and nearly all the local farmers used his services to thrash their corn through the late autumn and winter. He was a very active parish councilor and can be seen in one picture standing wi...

Bampton Community Archive

Legal documents; a plea for change of the proposed area of Inclosure for Aston, Bampton 1834

• BCA - 2017.375
• Item
• 1834

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...

Bampton Community Archive

Albert & Mary Elizabeth Townsend at the Elephant & Castle and later at Castle View Farm & their Family

• BCA - 2018.1416
• Item
• twentieth century

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...

Bampton Community Archive

Death of Evalyn Hornsby May 2015 then Fred Hornsby August 2015

• BCA - 2017.809
• Item
• May-August 2015

Evalyn and Fred Hornby had lived in Bampton for many decades. Fred worked for John Henly and then his son Roy on Deanery farm and Hobbs Buildings and Evalyn worked at University farm for Mary Rouse. Evalyn died in the May and Fred in the August ...

Bampton Community Archive

Granny Wiggins from Weald

• BCA - 2018.1542
• Item
• early twentieth century

This wonderful lady with the strong, capable looking hands was known as Granny Wiggins. She lived in Weald and collected rushes which she made into flag baskets for the men to carry their tools and lunch to work. They were circles of woven reeds...

Bampton Community Archive

Daniel Gibbard, blacksmith; Goodman, tea dealers; Hay harvest; Mr & Mrs Dewe, Weald workhouse; Horse fair; Mr White, Meadow Farm.

• BCA - 2018.1426
• Item
• 1904

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, Brian Lee, very kindly made positive images out o...

Bampton Community Archive

Colin Rouse experiments with old-style thrashing at Hobbs buildings with a Ransom thrasher 1985

• BCA - 2018.1529
• Item
• 1985

In 1985 Colin Rouse experimented with farming the old fashioned way, using a Ransom thrasher. This meant storing corn still on the stems from harvest time in sheaves, until the old thrashing machine could be used. While it was perhaps great fun,...

Bampton Community Archive

The Townsend and Hudson family at the Elephant & Castle, later at Castle View Farm

• BCA - 2018.1516
• Item
• 1884 - c1980

Albert Townsend, born c1884 married Mary Elizabeth Portlock born c1881. Early in the 1900s they bought the Elephant and Castle where Albert raised pigs and kept chickens. Towards the end of the 1930s they moved across the road when they bought C...

Bampton Community Archive

Bampton Today 1965 - an album created by Bampton branch of the Women's Institute

• BCA - 2017.486
• Item
• 1965

At the end of 1965 the Bampton branch of the Women's Institute produced this album called "Bampton Today 1965" for an inter-branch competition it is probably the best source anywhere of Bampton in any single year. It covers many su...

Bampton Community Archive

Lascelles Gazetteer Bampton and Aston 1853

• BCA - 2018.1444
• Item
• 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...

Bampton Community Archive

The Morris Clown, previously The New Inn and originally The George

• BCA - 2018.1443
• Item
• late C19th early C20th

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...

Bampton Community Archive

General View of Agriculture in Oxon carried out in 1807

• BCA - 2018.1432
• Item
• 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...

Bampton Community Archive

Blacksmiths at Cromwell House, Cheapside late nineteenth and early twentieth century

• BCA - 2018.1430
• Item
• late nineteenth & 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...

Bampton Community Archive

Frank Hudson's family photographs

• BCA - 2017.1193
• Item
• C20th

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...

Bampton Community Archive

Harry Pocock, local thrashing agent

• BCA - 2018.1424
• Item
• 1958

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...

Bampton Community Archive

Letters regarding the proposed Inclosure of Common Fields in Aston and Coate

• BCA - 2018.1410
• Item
• 1834

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,...

Bampton Community Archive

Bampton Castle Research paper by Dr. John Blair - Anglo Saxon Bampton. 1988

• BCA - 2018.1405
• Item
• 1988

This is the publication Dr John Blair gave out when he gave a series of talks in the Town Hall in Bampton.

Bampton Community Archive

Thrashing with an old Ransome thrashing machine

• BCA - 2018.1401
• Item
• c2000

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...

Bampton Community Archive

Rose Gerring, born December 12th 1923, died September 2013

• BCA - 2017.448
• Item
• Dec 12th 1923 to July 16th 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...

Bampton Community Archive

Old Folk's Memories collected by Lloyd Hughes Owens in the 1970s

• BCA - 2018.1364
• Item
• C20th

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...

Bampton Community Archive

Felling the dead elm trees behind Glebelands mid 1970s

• BCA - 2018.1385
• Item
• 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...

Bampton Community Archive

A Bampton CE School Project called Bampton Through Time

• BCA - 2018.1377
• Item
• early 2000s

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...

Bampton Community Archive

Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins & Burford Ploughing Match 2002. Horse ploughing

• BCA - 2018.1369
• Item
• 2002

Referred to by all who regularly go to this ploughing match 'three Fs and a B' ie Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins & Burford, the match offers ploughing competitions of very many classes from horses to the most modern reversible ploughs...

Bampton Community Archive

Death of Brenda Sapsford May 24th 2017

• BCA - 2017.1197
• Item
• 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 until its sad demise and she was also a very efficient Parish Clerk in Bamp...

Bampton Community Archive

John Honour Willmer Nov 11th 1920 to Aug 11th 2014

• BCA - 2018.1343
• Item
• 1920-2014

Richard Willmer arrived at Friars Court as a tenant farmer in 1917. He was a successful hay and straw merchant who, at one time, was one of the main hay suppliers to both Great Western Railways and the collieries in Wales. Richard married Mary Hon...

Bampton Community Archive

Plantation Cottages on the western edge of Bampton

• BCA - 2017.1252
• Item
• 1965

Plantation Cottages were two semi-detached dwellings. If you go from the middle of Bampton towards Clanfield, there is a public footpath just after the last buildings on the right by the 30mph sign. Following that footpath takes you along the si...

Bampton Community Archive

Fire appliance at Hobbs Buildings hayrick fires, 1918 and 1919

• BCA - 2018.1324
• Item
• 1918-1919

Hayrick fires were sadly, a far too common occurrence 100 years ago. Many of the men smoked and steam engines used to drive some machinery spat out sparks which is not a good combination with lovely dry hay and straw. These pictures were taken ...

Bampton Community Archive

Memories of the members of the Darby and Joan Club compiled in 1962

• BCA - 2018.1319
• Item
• 1962

The Darby and Joan Club was for those who were 60 and over. In 1962 they made a scrapbook of members' memories. Topics covered include:- Morris dancing; Whitsuntide Garlands; the Mummers; Bampton Fair; Bampton Fire Brigade; Church, Chapel a...

Bampton Community Archive

Tree planting on March 24th 1973 to mark Tree Planting Year

• BCA - 2017.754
• Item
• March 24th 1973

Volunteers planted 80 trees allocated to Bampton through the County Council for “Tree Planting year” in the grass by the layby near Cowleaze Corner. The grassy area had been created when the steep bend in the road was removed c1971. Mr Doug Read...

Bampton Community Archive

Ledger of Mr John Alfred Russell Joyce beginning July 16th 1907

• BCA - 2017.1282
• Item
• July 16th 1907

This is the Ledger kept by Mr J A Joyce and the earliest entry is for July 16th 1907. He meticulously heads each page with the name of the person for whom he did work, the date and all the work done. It is a wonderful description of the work don...

Bampton Community Archive

Filmed interviews with Bampton people by Bampton Community Archive

• BCA - 2017.1288
• Item
• 2006-2015

These 4 pages list the YouTube web address of the filmed interviews done by the Bampton Community Archive. They are with Dave Rose with Terry Rouse bellringing; Vera Elward talking about Busby's department store; A History of St Mary's ...

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farmhouse, outside, Michael Barlow Vaughan with sister Susan

• BCA - 2017.1251
• Item
• September 2010

These pictures are nearly all of the outside of the farmhouse. You can see quite clearly where the once open carriage entrance has been filled in and the kitchen, dining room, sitting room and hallway have been created. There is a clear slot tha...

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farm buildings not connected to the big barn

• 2017.1246
• Item
• September 2010

These farm buildings are not immediately adjacent to the big barn. Items are seen set out ready for auction in 5 days' time inside the big barn. A view of the big barn seen from part way up the drive from the road.

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farm: behind the big barn and associated buildings

• BCA - 2017.1249
• Item
• September 2010

These pictures are taken behind the big barn, inside and outside all the farm buildings close to it. Read the caption with each picture to get more information. Everything was being set up for a sale of Ham Court with all but 22 acres in 5 days&...

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farm big barn, south aspect and inside

• BCA - 2017.1248
• Item
• September 2010

These pictures look at the south aspect of the big barn and inside the east end.

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farm; part of East aspect, old bake house and neighbouring stable

• BCA - 2017.1247
• Item
• September 2010

These photographs start by looking at the area on the east side where the Victorian addition on the left joins the original building. There are pictures taken inside what used to be the bake house which was at the end of the long barn next to the...

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farmhouse, hall and office

• BCA - 2017.1244
• Item
• September 2010

This series of pictures taken inside Ham Court farmhouse are of the hall and the office which is to the north off the hallway up about 3 steps. There is also one more picture taken in the dining room.

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farmhouse, passageway to Victorian additions & items set out for auction

• BCA - 2017.1246
• Item
• September 2010

The passageway from the west facing sitting room into the Victorian addition showing a few of the items set out for the auction 6 days hence.

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farmhouse, kitchen and west sitting room

• BCA - 2017.1245
• Item
• September 2010

These pictures show the kitchen and west facing sitting room. Please remember that Michael was packing up. Read the caption to each photograph for more details.

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court, the Victorian addition of the 1870s

• BCA - 2017.1243
• Item
• 1870-1880

This series of photographs inside Ham Court farmhouse show the Victorian addition of the 1870s and the dining room which is on the east side of farmhouse. Note the hugely thick walls that take the weight of arched area that was originally open. ...

Bampton Community Archive

First floor, solarium, attic over kitchen & office of Ham Court

• BCA - 2017.1242
• Item
• September 2010

This series of photographs starts in the passageway between a bedroom and bathroom on the first floor looking into the solarium. The interwoven ceiling heights can be seen, the solarium and view from the window and walking on into the first floor...

Bampton Community Archive

Inside the attic of Ham Court farmhouse 2010

• BCA - 2017.1240
• Item
• September 2010

In September 2010 Michael Barlow Vaughan invited me to document the inside of Ham Court Farmhouse before it went to auction 6 days later. Although the plaster was falling off the laths in places there was no sign of damp getting in. The spiral, ...

Bampton Community Archive

Castle View Farm c1971

• BCA - 2017.1239
• Item
• c1971

These photographs are of Castle View farmhouse taken from various angle about 1971. One of the farm buildings was once a railway carriage. The entrance to the yard is closer to the house than it is today. The water courses around Mill Green had...

Bampton Community Archive

Women's Land Army teaching ladies how to milk in WWII

• BCA - 2017.1234
• Item
• 1939-1945

Hilda Kent joined the Women's Land Army in Witney. After she retired she used to make a display in the foyer of the Bush Club every Wednesday and it was something everyone looked forward to seeing. One week she did one about her Land Army w...

Bampton Community Archive

Baled straw, St Mary's in the background August 22nd 2016

• BCA - 2017.1225
• Item
• August 22nd 2016

Well into the second half of the C20th straw was baled up in sizes that a man could pick up. Now, very large rectangular bales are made which require machinery to lift them. St Mary The Virgin can be seen in the background.

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Document detailing the sale of Calais Farm in 1984 (9 pages to view)

• BCA - 2014.1368..25
• Item
• 1984

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

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Skills crisis in the broiler chicken industry

• BCA - 2017.1200
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• 2017

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...

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Improving access to Oxfordshire's countryside and green spaces

• BCA - 2017.1138
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• May 2017

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 ...

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Kit Jackson's photograph collection

• BCA - 2017.1126
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• twentieth century

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...

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Members of Frank Hudson's family

• BCA - 2017.1129
• Item
• twentieth century

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 ...

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AGGROW. Letter to OCC by chairman John Bowler - 14.3.17

• BCA - 2017.1127
• Item
• March 14th 2017

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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Lloyd Hughes Owen's hand-written notes on senior people & typed out for ease of reading

• BCA - 2017.694
• Item
• c1974

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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Terry Crowley's memories of people who took an active part in the life of Bampton 1983-1985

• BCA - 2017.1116
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• 1983-1985

In 1983 Terry Crowley began taking photographs of people in Bampton who worked here, or were born here, or worked for charities here or any combination. It was before the days of digital photography so it was unusual for someone to think to recor...

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Ploughing Match in Kelmscott September 26th 2015

• BCA - 2017.1112
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• September 26th 2015

The Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins and Burford Ploughing Match Society held their annual ploughing match at Kelmscott on September 26th 2015. These photographs show some of what was to be seen at the show.

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Milk churn stand outside Weald Farm, Weald Street

• BCA - 2017.1099
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• 2008

A milk churn stand outside Weald Farm in Weald Street, a left-over from the days when milk was collected in churns and not a bulk tanker.

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Choir activity day and BBQ at Glebe Farm June 6th 2015

• BCA - 2017.1074
• Item
• June 6th 2015

David and Sarah Jane New own Glebe Farm in Black Bourton; David is organist and choirmaster at St Mary's and once a year he generously invites the choir plus relatives and any friends who may be staying with them to go to the farm for either ...

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Harry Pocock and his tractor, early 1930s

• BCA - 2017.1054
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• early 1930s

This photograph of Harry Pocock with his tractor was taken in the early 1930s. Harry had a thrashing machine and went from farm to farm to thrash the corn before farmers had their own combine or could hire a combine and driver.

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Pictures from Lucinda Leech from negatives created in 1904

• BCA - 2017.1037
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• 1904

These 6 photographs were obtained from 6 x 4 inch negatives. The elderly man sitting at his table by the range is Daniel Gibbard who a blacksmith in Bampton. His smithy was on the site of present day Folly View, the red brick houses on the south...

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