Newspaper article about Janet Newman organising the Bampton Festival in 1985, originally meant to celebrate the building of the Grammar School built from funds left by Robert Vesey in 1653. The Festival included events, concerts and exhibitions including skeleton of child and many photographs of Old Bampton.
Mr & Mrs Horace Morse and daughter Kit, later Mrs Kit Jackson Horace Morse collected the contents of the lavatory buckets which were put outside the houses on Wednesday. He had a horse drawn cart with a tank on the back and would then spread this on farmers' fields. He also collected the ashes and rubbish in a high sided square cart and emptied this in Gog Lane. Sewerage didn't came to Bampton until 1950's.