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SPAJERS, Bampton Mummers: Don Rouse celebrates 50 years

  • BCA - 2024.6892
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  • 2000

Article in the Limited Edition Magazine of Oxfordshire in 2000 about Don Rouse having been connected with the Bampton Mummers for 50 years. Characters in the play, the script of which has been handed down through the ages by word of mouth, include The Doctor, Jack Finney, The Turkish Knight, the Royal O'Prussia King, Tom the Tinker, Father Christmas, Robin Hood and St George or King George. The Bampton Mummers are organised by The SPAJERS and they collect funds by performing at private homes and pubs on Christmas Eve every year.

Janet Westman

David Geoffrey Hawkins

  • BCA - 2024.6891
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  • 1941-2023

Funeral service of David Geoffrey Hawkins, held in St. Mary's Church Bampton. As David was in the RAF a tribute in the form of a flypast of the A400M was given and this can be seen at https://youtu.be/v26BlMQHg2E

Janet Westman

Easter Bonnet Competition 1989

  • BCA - 2024.6896
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  • 1989

Photo of Eater Bonnet Competition in 1989 taken in front of Jubilee Inn. Josephine Buckingham, Becky Shuker, Ian Harris and Pam and John Martin

Janet Westman

Garfield Leslie George Harrison 1928-2023

  • BCA - 2024.6908
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  • 2023

Funeral service for Les Harrison held in St Mary's Church on 23rd May 2023
Les Harrison he was married to Winifred who died 5.12.2017. They had two children, Winifred and Nigel. Les’s father Jack Harrison , as the butcher located at what is now Pear Tree Cottage in the High Street. A real old fashioned butchers’  shop with whole carcasses hanging from hooks in the ceiling. He later moved to the small shop (now Bampton Coffee House) attached to The Stores in the Market Square. Les also had a sister called Ruth.

 

Janet Westman

John Kent, Landlord of the Malt Shovel, and other landlords and pubs

  • BCA - 2024.6916
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  • 1957

Newspaper article in Oxford mail mentioning local pubs. In Bampton, The Malt Shovel and Elephant and Castle; The Strickland Arms in Ducklington and The Horse and Jockey in Black Bourton, The Plough at Alvescot, and the Lamb at Filkins. John Kent, 85, was the Landlord of the Malt Shovel for 34 years, he originally came from Suffolk and was a gamekeeper in Lincolnshire and Bradwell Grove. The Malt Shovel was in Lavender Square and there is an inscription on the chimney showing the date of 1659. It used to be a Malt house. The Elephant and Castle in Bridge Street was about 350 years old and had a thatched roof at this time (1957), the landlord was Clarence Dalton, ex RAF, who had another pub in London, The Prince of Orange at Greenwich. In 1957, the Landlord of the Talbot Hotel, an old coaching inn in Market Square, was a Mr Flood, and the inn itself was about 500 years old. The New Inn (now Morris Clown) was also a coaching Inn and the landlord was W.F. Wagner. The landlord of the Horse and Jockey at Black Bourton was Mr Alan George Burgess and the landlord of The Plough at Alvescot was Mr Leonard Killick, and the landlord of the Lamb at Filkins was Cyril Clements.

Janet Westman

RAF Brize Norton: Airbus 400M Atlas

  • BCA - 2022.3989
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  • 2014

Newspaper article reporting the arrival of the first Atlas Aircraft to RAF Brize Norton

Janet Westman

Various People at Whitsun weekend activities

  • BCA - 2024.6880
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  • 1990s

Photographs of spectators of Morris Dancers and customers enjoying the Bampton pubs at the Whitsun weekend:
Some people named as: Martin and June Hewitt. Roy Hewitt. Max Norman, Sue Wigglesworth in Romany. Dennis Merrils, Harry Walton of the Talbot, Cyril Phipps, Alan Eldret, Vic Grinsell. Taff and Babs Suggs, Dick Arnott, Martin Barber and Jimmy Smith 1980s Roy Shergold, Jean and Jeff Chance, Gordon Lorimer, Annie Grinsell, Wendy Eldrett, Stuart Howlett, Mike Watson,
Ursula and Bob Booth Landlord and landlady of the Romany. Kevin Bradley, Terry Curtis, Michal Farmer outside Romany
Easter Bonnet Parade

Janet Westman

Bampton Morris Dancers 1980s

  • BCA - 2024.6879
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  • 1980

55 Photographs taken 1990s showing visiting teams and Bampton Dancers outside the pubs during the Whitsun weekend. Taken by Bill Govier.
some visiting teams are not mentioned, but there is Moulton Morris, Abingdon Morris, and King Johns Morrismen, Southampton
The pubs include Jubilee Inn, Romany, Talbot, Elephant and Castle, Horseshoe and George and Dragon.
some of the Bampton Morris are named in the photos: Mat Green (fiddle). Mark Booty, Jeff Dando. Colin Bathe. Terry Rouse fool, Jamie Wheeler & Reg Hall on fiddle, Rolly Brown, Richard Wixey, Paul Wixey.

Janet Westman

Easter Bonnet Competition 1987

  • BCA - 2024.6895
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  • 1987

Photographs of Easter Bonnet Competition held in 1987 those included in photos are Betty Craddock, Josie Buckingham, Ruth Wheeler, Sharon Foreshew, Janet Newman, Mrs Elward. taken at the War Memorial.

Janet Westman

Ted Fenton: Conservative Candidate

  • BCA - 2024.6897
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  • 2023

Conservative Flyer for Ted Fenton, District Council Candidate for Bampton, Clanfield and Black Bourton. This was for the West Oxfordshire District Council Election to be held on Thursday 4th May 2023.

Janet Westman

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