Extract of Parish Council minutes regarding a proposed well in the Market Square February 1902 Mr. T.Carter on behalf of the Bampton P.C. applied for permission to sink a well in the immediate neighbourhood of the Town Hall between the main road and the highway. It was a piece of waste ground and he believed it did not belong to the highway authority, but as a matter of courtesy the P.C. decided to ask the R.D.C. for permission to dig the well.
CBL. Milk float converted to house refrigeration unit. CBL Electric Vehicles was established in Moonraker Lane, Bampton in 1978. They are specialists in electric vehicles.
Adrian Simmonds' collection of items donated by Carol Langley. Adrian had a shop in the Market Square. Janet Newman thinks the date is more likely to be 1916. William (Bill) Lock's building company were doing lots of building work in Bampton at that time. Charlie Lay (1895) was a stone mason living at Mill Green. He was the father of Alfred Lay and Walter Lay, both of whom died in WW1 and commemorated on the War Memorial. He was father of Ted Lay who was married to Ruth Pocock, sister of Harry Pocock. Fred Lay (1897) was also Charlie's son. Thomas Dipper (1850) was a bricklayer and lived in Mill Street. The only one I'm not sure about is H. Lock. William's brother Herbert had worked on the building with his brother but emigrated to Canada, returning to Bampton to marry, Marjorie in 1918, only to be killed at Aulnoy, in France a few months later. It's possible that H. Lock could have been a relative of William (Bill
