Gardeners at the Grange, High Street

• BCA - 2019.2212
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• 1890

This photograph shows 'Old Smith' and Maston cutting grass at the Grange in 1890.

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Francis Shergold, gardener at Weald Manor retires after 50 years

• BCA - 2017.1290
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• February 1984

Francis Shergold worked for the Colvile family nearly all his working life, and certainly for the last 50 years leading up to his retirement in February 1984. This newspaper cutting is from the Witney Gazette February 23rd 1984.

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Filmed interviews with Bampton people by Bampton Community Archive

• BCA - 2017.1288
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• 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 ...

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Kit Jackson's photographs

• BCA - 2017.1192
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• C20th

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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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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A picture of Mary Shergold in service at Bampton Manor

• BCA - 2017.922
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• soon after WWII

This is a photograph of Mary Shergold, wife of Roy, when she was in service at Bampton Manor after WWII. We made a sound recording Mary talking about her life's work and it's a wonderful account of the life of someone who started life i...

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Roy Shergold tells about his working life after demob in 1947 to retirement aged 82

• BCA - 2017.589
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• February 1st 2011

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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Photograph album of Bampton people created by Terry Crowley in 1983

• BCA - 2017.495
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• 1983

Terry Crowley felt passionately that a visual record should be made and kept of some of Bampton's citizens who played a very active role in the life of Bampton. This was before digital photograph and photography were relatively expensive. T...

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