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Annual inspection of RAF Bampton Castle in Weald
RAF Signals station at Weald.The air officer supporting Air Command carrying out the annual inspection in April 1993.The RAF took over use of the site in September 1969 from the Royal Corps of Signals which had been stationed there since it opened...
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1965 A pylon that once held a windmill on White Owl Farm
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...
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Lighter with the USAF 5th Air Force crest; it was in the Pacific from 1942.
"The crest on the lighter is that of the USAF 5th Air Force that has been based in the Pacific since 1942. Brize Norton air base was handed to the USAF in 1951 and returned to the RAF in 1965. Zippo type lighters were very popular at the time...
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21st birthday of the women's section British Legion football match v men
21st birthday celebration of the women's section British Legion with a football match v men. Names include1. Jane Woodley2. Audrey Court3. Freda Bradley4. Betty Collett5. Joan Keyte6. Kath Walker78. Primrose Seacole9. Pat Curtis10. Sharon Fo...
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Peter Davis and his exhibition in the Old Grammar School about Witney Airfield 2015
Witney Gazette June 24th 2015.Peter Davis from Church Street put on a detailed and very interesting exhibition for the Bampton Community Archive in the Old Grammar School, Church Close about the Witney Airfield. The only suggestion of an airfield...
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The wedding of George Frederick Lomas and Lillian Frances Ody at St Mary The Virgin, Bampton c1938. They lived in Belgrave Cottages, Church Street until the late 1990s when Fred, then a widower moved to a bungalow in Manor View. They are both bu...
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Brigadier Rupert Crowdy celebrated his 105th birthday March 13th 2015
Brigadier Rupert Crowdy OBE served in the army in India and Burma and afterwards he organised the 'shipping' of coal into Berlin during the Berlin Siege. In 1962 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
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These photograph are of Bill Daniels as a 12 year old boy in the Mummers and as an adult in military uniform and in the Shirt Race. There are also pictures of his father Ernie Daniels and his mother. In the photograph of the mummers you can also...
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Merchant Navy service book WWII
Merchant Navy service book.Club rooms for members of the British Merchant Navy, second floor of Seamen's Church Institute, 25 South Street, New York City.The club rooms were dedicated by the British Ambassador in March 1941
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ATC group circa 1952. Names on the photograph are Dennis Harris, Les Harrison, Billy Buckingham, Brian Lawrence, Philip Horne, Norman Craddock, Ron Cross, Raymond 'Boxer' Paintin, Jimmy Harris, Harry Owen and Wing Commander T Lloyd-Jone...
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Bus Shelter given to Bampton by the departing Royal Corps of Signals, 1969
This bus shelter was a gift from the departing Royal Corps of Signals in Weald to the town of Bampton September 1969. It was built by Ray Green, Arthur Beckley and Brian Kew.
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Cigarette lighter of USAF 5th Air Force
'Dug up in Bampton' was an exhibition in the Vesey room.It may be of interest to know a little about the cigarette lighter with a military crest on it.The crest is actually that of the USAF 5th Air Force that has been based in the Pacifi...
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Military funeral of Marine Jason Robert Frederic Mackie Nov. 20th 1987 to May 14th 2009
Jason was killed in Afghanistan by a bomb which exploded under the vehicle he was in. Jason was born in Zimbabwe and he and his family escaped from that unhappy place and came to Bampton. Jason went to Burford school where he excelled and was ve...
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Ray Evans wrote the history of Radio Station Bampton which was part of the Royal Corps of Signals. This is his account, which can also be bought as a book in the Vesey Room in Bampton.
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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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The Townsend and Hudson family at the Elephant & Castle, later at Castle View Farm
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...
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The Drinkwater family have lived in Bampton from very early 1900s. William Frank Drinkwater was born in 1893 and served with the Royal Field Artillery from 1914 to October 1922 but did 4 years with them from 1910. His son William, Bill to all wh...
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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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Funeral of Ray Evans May 16th 1927 to Sept 2017
https://youtu.be/nqnMaTmrykMhttps://youtu.be/iHEL-7BZEBcThe first one of these two YouTube films is of Ray talking about his training in Catterick and subsequent life working in the Royal Corps of Signals. When not working abroad, Ray was posted ...
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Cadet Flight Sergeant Frederick Gerring retired at age 21 on July 5th 1972
Cadet Flight Sergeant Fred Gerring, son of Rose and Arthur Gerring retired at age 21 from No 2267 Bampton and Brize Norton Squadron, Air Training Corps, after 8 years of service. He had no choice because all cadets have to leave once they are 21 ...
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In April 2017 two World War Two Women Pilots who were in the ATA had their work recognised by a permanent memorial at RAF Brize Norton. Molly Rose, who lived in Bampton for very many years and Mary Ellis who were both called Spitfire Women, flew ...
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Troops leave from RAF Brize Norton to back Nato deterrent against Russia April 2017
Nearly 300 British troops deployed to Estonia as a deterrent against Russian aggression. The soldiers were all from Bullford-based 5th Battalion The Riffles.
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Filmed interviews with Bampton people by Bampton Community Archive
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 ...
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Dor Thomson's scrapbook from 1938 to 1946
This is a wonderful collection of memorabilia that was kept by Dor Thomson and covers the period just before WWII broke out, through the war and a short period after it. It gives a truly fascinating idea of what it was like to be a woman during W...
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June & Graham Taylor's scrapbook
June and Graham have kept a scrapbook of various events in their life and these pages offer a few of them. It begins with their Golden Wedding Anniversary card of September 4th 2004 which was a lovely event celebrated with their family and friend...
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Bus Shelter gift from the Royal Corps of Signals. Sept 12th 1969
The Royal Corps of Signals were at their base in Weald from 1943 until September 1969 after which it was RAF Bampton Castle. Before the Weald station was ready to receive them, they were based in a house in Fox Close off New Road in Bampton. Whe...
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Hilda Kent recalls her working life
Hilda Kent had many jobs through her working life but nearly all involved driving and this is the fascinating story of her working life. She drove horse boxes when young then a Taxi in Bexhill and once WWII broke out she drove soldiers in a bus t...
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RAF Brize Norton flies in urgently needed help to hurricane hit Caribbean
Two devastating category 5 hurricanes hit some of the Caribbean Islands less than a week apart. RAF Brize Norton flew out vital supplies and personnel to help with the relief effort.
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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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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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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...
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Chris Timms in Navy uniform WWII
Chris Timms was in the Navy during WWII and he's seen here with three other young sailors. He played cricket for Bampton.
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Brigadier Rupert Crowdy OBE. Eulogy, telegram from Norah & funeral program
Brigadier Rupert Crowdy OBE led a very full and very long life, dying less than two months before his 107th birthday. This entry gives you the eulogy given by his grandson Colonel Mike Brooke OBE which gives fascinating detail into Rupert's ...
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Brigadier Rupert Crowdey's photograph album from his time in the Army in India during the Raj
Brigadier Rupert Crowdy OBE born in 1910, trained at Sandhurst early in the C20th and went into the Indian Army. He remained there, with a spell in Burma during WWII, until 1947 when he came back to the UK and went into the British Army. He ran ...
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Women urged not to give up collecting for poppy appeal August 2016
The Royal British Legion is considering a merger of the men's and women's sections. The merger is due to complete in October 2016. Much more in the article
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When Bampton made a fool of itself - March 1900
Of all the events of the South African War none fired the popular imagination to the same extent as Baden Powell’s defence of the little town of Mafeking on the western border of the Transvaal. Its fate would have had little influence of the ulti...
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Blenheim Festival of Flight August 14th 2005
This event took place at Blenheim Palace and many Bampton people went to enjoy the whole day. Apart from celebrating flight through the decades there was much more to see and do and the story of the day is told in the photographs
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Roy Shergold tells about his working life after demob in 1947 to retirement aged 82
Roy Shergold, born c1926, was in the Home Guard in the early days of WWII because he was not old enough to enlist. Once he was 17 in 1943 he joined the Merchant Navy. He got his demob in 1947 and up to his 82nd birthday he had been unemployed fo...
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Big Game License for black bear, pig & leopards March 1926 for N W T Roberts
This licence was issued to N. W. T. Roberts when he was living in the Kashmir region of India and dated September 17th 1938. It could be the what looks like a letter W is an M because it was the property of Michael Roberts.
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This is a photograph of a soldier in WWI uniform on a motorbike
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There are different spellings of the family name of Sheppard but that was not unusual in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. There are census returns, a birth certificate, Short Service paper for WWI volunteer Albert David Sheppard and a ...
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Newspaper articles on RAF Brize Norton 2013-2016
These newspaper articles are all about RAF Brize Norton - the last VC10 to leave Brize Norton; USAF Reserve Command visit the base; Princess Anne joining No47 squadron in ; their celebration of its 100 years; parachute team test freefall jump syst...
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Postcards collected by Hilda Kent, all but one pre WWII
These 14 postcards were collected and saved by Hilda Kent and all but one denote pre WWII scenes. There is one from 1943 showing Stanley Matthews playing football for the RAF. Other subjects are the Queen Mary, a rocket driven bicycle, a stylize...
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Royal British Legion - Bampton Branch, old documents
This is an eclectic mixture of old documents no longer to be kept by the Royal British Legion. The earliest is a legal document regarding the purchase of the land that has our War Memorial standing on it. There are also designs for the War Memor...
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Historic documents of the Royal British Legion, Bampton branch
The date range of these documents begins with a legal document dated April 12th 1920 regarding the purchase of the land where the war memorial now sits. There are several letters to do with our war graves and the National Inventory of War Graves,...
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