Broad St 1914

Broad Street looking South c1930s

43 photographs of Bampton, showing some funny April Fool jokes on the road signs and Downton Abbey sets, supplied by Margaret & Tandy Govier

Daphne Gaydon's war time experience

Daphne Gaydon in Wren uniform. WWII

Marjorie Inkster, 76 pages relating to her her wartime work in REME along with her sister Brenda and brother Frazer.
Book written by Marjorie, entitled Bow and Arrow War from FANY to Radar in World War II.
Brenda Inkster was born in 1917 and on leaving school spent some years in France and Germany. She studied at Heidelberg University and apparently eventually spoke German almost like a native.
Brenda joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (F.A.N.Y.) in 1940, driving ambulances and staff cars, but was soon absorbed into Intelligence at Chester, because of her knowledge of German. From there she went to Bletchley Park (having collected a commission on the way) She stayed there until nearly the end of the ear, ending up as a Junior Commander in B.O.A.R., ferreting-out ex-Nazis.

After a five-year art training in the post-war period, she was invited to work in the Ministry of Defence. Having suffered from cancer since the age of thirty, she eventually had to retire and go to live with her sister Marjorie. The sisters came together to live in Bampton, at Grove Cottage in 1963 She died, after marvellous medical care, in 1993.

Catalogue of Sale of the Benfield estate September 22nd 1982. from the estate of Ellen Elizabeth Benfield showing plan photographs and naming tenants in properties
Windsor Cottages, Broad Street Tenants: Mr P Rose, Miss EM Farmer
Matthew House Broad Street Tenant Mrs D Long
Radbands Broad Street Tenant AJ Govier
Radwick House Market Square Tenant Mrs M Stephens
York House Market Square Tenant Mr S Constable
1 and 2 Folly View Tenants Mrs D Cannons and Mrs G Thompson
1 and 2 Belgrave Cottages, Church Street Tenants Mrs Lomas and Mrs Craddock
1 and 2 Bourton Cottages Church Street Tenants Miss M Randle and Mr C Smith
4 and 5 Bourton Cottages Church Street Tenants Mr A Allam and Mrs B Craddock
No 2 Church View Tenant Mr A Hill

Broad Street looking north about 1904

Bus timetable showing buses running between Witney, Bampton Lechalade and Fairford in June 1962

Bus shelter gift from Royal Corps of Signals Sept 1969