The Bampton Beam publication was produce 3 and sometime 4 times a year. This edition from August 1993 contained the following articles and advertisers. The August Fair The Charter to Hold a Fair CBL Electric Vehicles Bampton Horse Fair The Bampton Festival Letters to the Editor Flower Garlands May 1993 McKenzie Brown - Plumbing Electrical Bampton Fax Bureau The Romany Inn Quality Secretarial Service Bubbles - Dog Grooming Corner Cottage Services - Typing/Amin Janice Radley - Chiropodist J Temple - Hardware, DIY, Fancy Goods and Toys Bampton Driving School Just when did Morris dancing begin Small medieval houses in Bampton Bampton Horticultural Society Gardening Local Profiles - Hilda Kent, Margaret Howes Curtain Choice Andrew Bowman - Master Thatcher Health Matters J Godfrey - Funeral Directors Wendy Ellison - Massage SPAJERS Bampton Pre-school Playgroup The Children’s Society Oxford College of Further Education Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary Mother’s Union Badminton Bampton Youth Centre Batricar - Dawn Mansfield Bampton Environmental Watch Group Bampton Village Hall Step Aerobics The MS Society Bampton Cricket Club Fun Aerobics Class Paul Lappin - Decorator Arts Page Summer Opera & Organ Surprise Oxford Stage Company Pericles and The Comedy or Errors The Talbot Hotel MH Thomas - Building, Landscape Gardening and Fencing Contractor The Appliance Doctor Marks Kitchen Post Office Affordable rented housing New road playground Patient Charter Centre for Complementary Medicine A Fisket-a-Tasket - Flower Designs Proze Crossword R Cooper - Builder Road Safety School Children A Simmonds = Baker E Taylor - Funeral Directors Grey Gables Garage N Woodley Building Maintenance The Complete Engraver Ltd Diary of Events Bampton Directory
These three maps are all labelled as 2nd edition 1899. They cover the area Central Bampton, north & south, east nearly to Aston, Black Bourton south to Cowleaze Corner, east to Elephant & Castle in Bridge Street and Mt Owen Rd, west to road going up to Lew now called Station Road. They not only show the buildings but someone has written on in pencil when certain plots were sold and to whom. Interesting to see the clear fish-farming area with the Deanery then called Deanery Farm, Cobb House simply called Vicarage, Churchgate House called Trinity Vicarage. The third vicarage is today called Kilmore House and is almost opposite the East window of St. Mary's. What today is called Bridge Street was then called Mill Street and the mill was just to the left of path to Sandford Field from Bridge St. The legend is the mill wheel was buried in the plot to the left of the brook walking to the field from Bridge St and the tree there today was planted at its centre.
These photographs, all taken by Bob West are of the Tony Daniels' morris side in 2004. People in the pictures include Craig Godwin - who became squire after Tony Margaret Barnes Liz Rose Marian Rouse Bob West Andrew West Brian Rouse Roger West Toby Perry Martin Landray Ted Poole Ivy Poole
These pictures all taken by Bob West, were taken in 2004. Many are taken in the garden of the Horse Shoe. Some of the people in the pictures include Bob West Ted Poole Billy Main Mary Cook & brother Tommy Tanner Tony Daniels Dave Rose Ann & Francis Shergold Clare Hall Maurice New Jasper Walsh Reg Hall Jim Buckingham Heather David (at Tickhill) Eric Stott Ivy Poole Carole New Liz Rose Roger West
These are photographs of the Bampton Traditional Morris Men dancing on Spring Bank Holiday Monday in 2005. The visiting guest Morris sides are Abingdon and Leyland Morris.
These photographs taken by Bob West record some of the activities of the late May Bank holiday weekend in 2000. Francis Shergold's morris side and visiting teams Sherbourne and Eynsham
The map was produced in 1921. The first map is has been reused to show where council houses were to be built on the south side of New Road and where the sewerage pipes were to be laid to the sewerage works along the Buckland Road.
Mains sewerage came to Bampton in 1958 after a long struggle and at a cost of £105,000. Miss Marjorie Pollard was the driving force but in the end, it was the death of Horace Morse who emptied the 'night soil' buckets twice a week which made it imperative. Jack Bellinger was the first manager of the sewerage works.
These photographs, all taken by Bob West at the Spring Bank Holiday day of Morris Dancing 2000. All but the last two are Tony Daniels' morris side, (now at 2020 under Craig Godwin). The next to last picture is of Sherbourne Morris and the last picture is Eynsham Morris, both guests of the local side.
These are the young dancers in Francis Shergold's side 1980, the Bampton Traditional Morris Men. They include Keith Rouse, Jamie Wheeler and Craig Godwin.
