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These are three hand written letter by T W Pembrey Draper & Co to the Misses D and L Smith in Lakenheath about their future employment in their department store which comprised the buildings on both corners of Bushey Row and High Street, Lesta...
Bampton Community Archive
Picture postcard High St looking East from the Grange. To Miss K Phillips post stamp March 13th 1908
Picture postcard of the High Street looking east from outside the Grange. Addressed to Miss K Phillips in Stanton Harcourt. The New Inn and Pembrey's department store can be see with the steeple of St Mary The Virgin in the background. Th...
Bampton Community Archive
Julian Johnston October 23rd 1932 to July 19th 2008
Julian came to live in Bampton with his wife when he retired from his work in Westminster. He was quietly very active in Bampton; he framed pictures, more as a hobby than a means of income, he was a bee keeper and gave teaching days on bee keepin...
Bampton Community Archive
Dolly & Eric Stroud's Hardware Store in the High Street
Eric Stroud was a builder. His daughter Stella was married to Les King and they had a shop right opposite this store. Les, Stella and Eric helped Dolly start up the hardware shop initially selling items that would have been used in the building ...
Bampton Community Archive
Video: Busby's department store
Busby's was a very large department store in Bampton high street after World War One and until soon after World War Two. It covered three properties next to each other (The Physiotherapy Shop, Strawberry Cottage and Lesta House) which are all...
Bampton Community Archive
High Street shops in late C19th and C20th
The New Inn in the High Street which was later renamed The Morris Clown in 1973; it started life as The George. Stevens the grocery shop became a shoe snob's shop and then a wet fish, fruit and vegetable shop before becoming a private dwellin...
Bampton Community Archive
T.W. Pembrey, department store in the High Street
T. W. Pembrey had a department store in the High Street and it is the only department store that has ever been in Bampton. It took up what today (2018) are three separate dwellings and a shop. Across Bushey Row opposite the Morris Clown is a lit...
Bampton Community Archive
High Street looking west from the south end of Bushey Row
This is the High Street looking west from the south end of Bushey Row. The cars would suggest this was taken later in the 1920s. The war memorial can be see so it is post September 1920.Townsend's Cycle shop can be seen with cycles outside ...
Bampton Community Archive
Shirt Race seen from upstairs of Lesta House, High Street pre 1970
Les and Stella King took these photographs of the Shirt Race, about 1970. They are copied from colour slides. Apart from the old cars, note the ladies wearing stockings with seams; Fleur de Lys hairdressers, The New Inn now called The Morris Clo...
Bampton Community Archive
View of High Street from The Grange to the Market Square early C20th
This picture was taken from the middle of the road outside The Grange looking up towards the Market Square very early in the twentieth century. The present day Morris Clown was then called The New Inn; originally it was The George.
Bampton Community Archive
Shops I E Busby and Clark & Son
This old photograph shows the shop of Clark & Son on the south side of High Street and the part of the shop of I E Busby that is at the south end of Bushey Row on the east side. Busby's shop also included what today (2017) is called Stra...
Bampton Community Archive
This postcard picture was taken early in the C20th. I E Busby's store is seen across Bushey Row - which was then called New Inn Lane - but it also includes the shop on the lift with the sun blind pulled down. Across the road can be seen Cla...
Bampton Community Archive
The Morris Clown, previously The New Inn and originally The George
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
Kings of Bampton - inside the shop and seen from across the road in the High Street c1970
From 1960-1970 Les and Stella King owned and ran Kings of Bampton in what is now Strawberry Cottage and Lesta House. They sold men's and ladies' clothes, shoes, wool, carpets, lino, mats, arranged tailor made suits and all sort of odds ...
Bampton Community Archive