Les and Stella King owned a department store Kings of Bampton in the High Street. selling, haberdashery, toys, shoes and all manner of household items. Baby clothes, underwear, ladies and gent's clothes and made to measure garments.
Newspaper Cutting - date unknown, -but obviously before the houses on Pembroke Place were built as it mentions the children's playing field in New Road. Discussion was the billing of the Fairground Owner Mr Thurston for cleaning the street after the fair. and renaming Bushey Row and New Inn Lane. Parish Councillors were Maurice Clack and Francis Henly John Quick