Vera Elward aged 92 took a flight in a microlight to help raise money for the restoration of the beautiful pipe organ in St Mary The Virgin Church in Bampton. Vera ran the Sunday School for over 20 years and has always worked for the church

Jack and Godfrey Horne in fancy dress in 1924.Godfrey Horne was killed in action in France. He was in one of the Guards regiments in WWII

These four photographs were taken by Adrian Simmonds from the upstairs of his shop, Bampton Stores at the west end of the Market Square in 1984

On May 19th 2004 a conversation between Stan Smith and Jo Lewington was recorded and this is a transcript of that conversation. Stan talks of his time fighting and then as a POW and finally on the long march west.

This is a photograph of the Horse Fair taken outside the Wheat Sheaf Inn in Bridge Street. pre-WW I Boys are collecting horse manure for vegetable gardens. The Wheat Sheaf became the Post Office about 1971 and became a private house in 2010 when the post office moved to the Town Hall and it became a private house.

Mrs Brooks of Mill Green showing a cross in the window to indicate a member of the family is away at war. WWI. She was the mother of Brannon Brooks and mother-in-law to Nellie Brooks. Mrs Brooks of Mill Green showing a cross in the window to indicate a member of the family is away at war. WWI. She was the mother of Brannon Brooks and mother-in-law to Nellie Brooks who was
the mother of Nan, Jim, Connie, Teddy, Bob, Nellie and Brit. Her name was Sarah Loveridge, and Richard (Dick) Brooks was her son. (We think!) Her son Teddy was knocked down by a motorcycle on the bridges in Bridge Street when he was 5 and died in hospital.
Baptist church outing with many people named on the photograph. Mrs Craddock, Nan Dafter, Miss
Dutton, Vera Timms, Emily Brooks, Mrs Jones, Rev. Jones, Rose Bishop, Rose Wells, Edie Bishop, Mrs
Lawrence, Brian Lawrence, Les Harrison, Mrs Harrison, Les Bunce, Mrs Bunce and Mrs Poole
Alice Puttock (nee Brooks ) and younger sister Kathleen who became Mrs Kath Tanner. circa1923.
The Brooks family early in the 20th century. The picture was lent to the Archive to copy by Alice
Puttock who was a Brooks before she married

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.

Terry Crowley, the father of Rosemary Linnet Sanguine, bought Thatched Cottage in the early 1960s and set about doing some research on the dwelling, which is one of the oldest in Bampton. This pdf documents his findings.
The Thatched Cottage, in Church Street, probably the oldest house in Bampton. Terry and Wendy Crowley moved to Bampton in 1963 and the house was then derelict. Owned by William Lock and his wife Rose. History includes notes and text written by John Blair Historian.

In 2012 as part of the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, an evening of entertainment was organised which asked the question "Has Bampton Got Talent?"

The garage in the Market Square was in existence at the start of the C20th when Oliver Onesipherous Collett owned and ran it. Around the middle of the twentieth century it was bought by Len Hughes.

Hughes' Garage was behind Cromwell House with access to it between Cromwell House and the house now called Exeter House