Extension to Witney hospital shows trust is looking to the future. A very welcome addition in view of the huge increase in West Oxfordshire's population.

Newspaper photograph of PC Steve Patrick and a group of children on Nigel the Clown's motor at the Bampton Village street Fair 1992

Photos off Bampton Fire Brigade participating in Charity events. e.g. Red Nose Day
Steve Pearce, Jimmy Smith, Brian Kew, Karen Spencer, John Shuker

Whistle-blowers at the ambulance service, which covers West Oxfordshire have warned lives are being put at risk because of staff shortages. There are 265 vacancies but funding available for only 90 paramedics in this year. There was a 10% increase in the use of private ambulances in the year.
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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

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

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.