Photograph of Lucy Shergold with her children , Roy & Ruth in Buckland Rd, in 1938

Article in Witney Gazette March 9th 2015. Bampton Garden Plants on the Buckland Road had a huge overhall about a year ago

Article in Witney Gazette entitled Builder seeks views on housing scheme Witney Gazette 2.10.13. Developers Richborough Estates proposal to build on New Road and Aston Road.

21 photos showing The Old Chapel Cottage in Buckland Road taken spring 2004.
Front cover of the funeral program for Dinah Lucy Green born September 7th
1930, died October 21st 2013
An invoice issued to Mrs Bessie Green by William Mathews family grocer in
Bampton in the shop called Duttons. Bessie worked in the shop and she also did some baking for
other people. Her list includes 2lb granary sugar, 1lb caster sugar, 1lb cheese, ½lb rashers, 1lb
margarine, ½lb butter, ½lb lard, 1lb currants, 1lb sultanas, ¼ lb mixed peel, ½lb suet, large peaches,
custard powder, table salt, small Omo (a laundry powder), rose mansion, ½lb sweet biscuits, Bisto
(gravy granules), SR flour, 1 Chunky (a dog food), total cost £1.7s.2d (£135½p)
newspaper cutting – children outside the Town Hall with their flower garlands
ready for judging 1964. Children include Gillian & Sheila Harding, Susan Taylor, Esther Green and her
mother Dinah and her grandmother Bessie Green.
Img140 School carnival 1985 with Dinah and Freda Bradley, Dinah dressed as a Pearly
Queen.
Img141 1985 school carnival float with Jan Bone, Bernice, Olive, Freda Bradley, Rita, Dinah
and Sylvia Nicholson.
Img142 1984 school carnival float with Dinah dressed in the uniform of the Women’s Land
Army.
Img143 Dinah is standing next to Maurice Buckland and she’s dressed as a Pearly Queen.
They got first prize for their float and Dinah’s holding the £10 note.
Img144 1985 school carnival with Dinah in Women’s Landy Army uniform – the theme for
their float was ‘Women’s Fashion 1900 to 1980s’.
Img145 1986 school carnival float, Dinah dressed as a jockey as her part in the their float
with the theme ‘Royal Ascot.’ Others on the float were Rita Head, Freda Bradley, Bernice Surridge,
Rosemary and Mavis Cooper.
Img147 1958 or 1959 with Esther Green, Dinah’s daughter, dressed as a poppy with a sign
‘Haig Fund’ in front of her. This was the name given to what is now the Poppy Appeal. Dinah is
supporting a little Esther.
Img148 1964 and Esther is dressed up to recall records; she has a disk hanging in front of her
and a waist band that says Top Ten. The children in fancy dress are all parading past the Jubilee Inn.
Dinah is in the centre of the picture walking behind Esther.
Img156 1971 or 1972. Ann Irvine and Dinah green taking part in the celebration of Bampton
Branch of the WI in their Golden Jubilee year. The WI planted a tree by the War Memorial to
commemorate the occasion. Dinah was a wonderful needlewoman and did nearly all the quilting
seen in this picture.
Img157 Dinah with Curly, real name John Titchener who is wearing the smock she made for
the first time.
Img080 and 081 The wedding of Dinah Lucy Godfrey and Ramon James Green on May 15th
1954 – one of the pictures has the names printed on it and they are also shown on the back.
Img082 July 2004, the wedding of Dinah’s son Mathew to Jackie. Mathew’s father Ramon
and sister Esther are in the family group

Advert for Bampton Garden Centre

The opening of Bampton Recreation Ground, which included tennis courts and a multisport area.

Rupert Gooddy, a Loyd House pupil from 1970 to 1974, died on July 10 2023, after a short period of illness.
He was brought up in Blackheath, South-East London, the son of John, the clerk to the Governors of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and Barbara, a radiographer. He attended Carn Brea prep school, Bromley, excelling as a sportsman, and was at one stage coached by Derek Underwood, the celebrated England seam bowler.

In Loyd House his sporting progress continued and within two years he had represented Bradfield’s cricket 1stXI. He was a batsman of real power and had an excellent eye. One school report said: “Gooddy played a well-judged and entertaining innings.” Another described him as “a most dependable opening bat and a fine gully.”

Ru’s family spent a good deal of time with his maternal grandmother at Byworth, West Sussex, which may be what inspired his love of country pursuits. He fished and shot, pastimes he pursued enthusiastically all his life. As a boy he kept doves in the garden at Blackheath.

While at Bradfield Ru, ever the nonconformist, with his great friend James Sutherland, acquired two ferrets, Blodwyn and Bill, which were kept out of harm’s way in his Housemaster’s garden, until one morning the Housemaster’s wife opened the front door to find Blodwyn tucking into the contents of her milk bottles. Blodwyn and Bill were “asked to leave”.

He was also an accomplished footballer, golfer and tennis player, his achievements matched only by his insistent pall of self-effacement, any compliment waved away with a genuine lack of conceit. He was ludicrously modest, as well as kind and caring. While he could be, as he admitted, ‘a grumpy sod’, he was essentially an engaging mixture of understated, unshowy charm and quietly forceful mischief, an astute listener and a huge enthusiast for merriment and fun.

Ru was a brilliant and generous host; excellent at putting people at their ease. He spoke with great gentleness and warmth, often almost in a whisper. It was part of an easy, engaging charm, but you underrated Ru at your peril; possibly in business sometimes people did and regretted it. He was a doer, softly spoken but a man of action.

Professionally he was a shrewd, hardworking and extremely successful entrepreneur. There had been early signs of this flair. At the age of six, Ru reported very excitedly that his parents were allowing him to use a couple of square yards of space in their garden, for his own devices. He explained: “I want to grow cabbages that I can sell to my mum.” Thus, the successful businessman was born.

The interest in horticulture was developed in his time at Writtle Agricultural College, Essex. During that period he spent a year working at Wyevale Nursery in Hereford, where he gained a love of the Wye Valley and Black Mountains, his parents having bought a cottage near Hay-on-Wye, which Ru loved. He went on to work at Northmoor Nurseries and in 1979 he opened his own nursery, Rupert Gooddy Plants Limited, Bampton.

Ru clearly belonged in Oxfordshire, where he lived for over forty years, indulging enthusiams for motorbikes, fishing and of course cricket. Moving there was absolutely the making of him, and he married his wife Elizabeth in 1990. His son Francis arrived the following year and daughter Mimi a year after that. The marriage lasted for 17 happy years.

One of the people who worked for Ru for many years was Di Newman. She said of him: “He was such a good bloke. Funny, caring and looked after his staff really, really well … If anyone was in trouble, he’d help them out, he’d go above and beyond… he would always give the young a chance by offering them work and he would always consult his staff before making decisions. He was out in all weathers with us, and never asked anyone to do a job he wouldn’t do himself. He was fun-loving and always rewarded well … Nothing was too much trouble for him. You couldn’t fault him. He was a lovely, lovely man …”

He enjoyed life to the full and was enormously and rightly proud of his son Francis, who followed Ru into the nursery business and helped it go from strength to strength, and daughter Mimi. He had a gentle, all-encompassing love of life. He was generous and loyal, with a wonderful warmth. His distinctive and hugely lovable personality will be enormously missed by all those who knew him.

James Hanning

This is a poem written by John Bolderson, a man from Witney, who was referee for Albert Radband's Bampton Football Club. He makes amusing mention of Frank Hudson, Eric Truman, Rodney Adams, Simon Goddard, Jim (Ginger) Townsend, John Marsden, Frank Barrett, Philip Hewitson, Roger Siford, Mick Walsh, George Siford, Terry Craven, Peter Hawks and William Truman.

Sales brochure for Meadow Farm, Buckland Road.