Copies of quotes, Letters with Parish Council and building information for the production of the Flood lit Multi Sports area and Tennis Courts in Buckland Road.

This ledger is 130 pages of wages for employees at North Street Farm, Aston,
AE Townsend was employer, and listed each week were Albert Fox, P Dewe, J Dewe, K Dewe and Mrs Harris.
Note from Margaret Josephs 2023 the sender of the ledger
North Street Farm, Aston, stood on the Witney edge of the village and comprised the farmhouse and adjoining cottage, duckpond, or¬ chard and lovely walled vegetable garden, together with farmland. A small development of designer houses now occupy the site.
The farm was owned by three generations of the Townsend family and Mollie, granddaughter of the original owner, was my Godmother. Family lore says that he bought the farm with money made in the South African diamond mines, but as with all family tales, I have no idea if that is true.
My great-grandparents, Thomas and Amelia Fox, both buried in Aston churchyard, lived in a labourer’s cottage in the market Square, where modem houses now stand. Water came from the well and at the end of the garden, through the chicken run was a Cotswold privy. As a child I hated going through the run as they all rushed towards you clucking madly, hoping to be fed. I’m still not fond of chickens!
Great Uncle Albert lived with my great-grandparents, working as a labourer on the farm, and is the A. Fox in the accounts book. For at least 20 years Mollie and Uncle Albert were a couple and part of the family until Bob Powell arrived on the scene from the North of Eng¬ land. How he originally connected with Mollie I don’t know as by then I was married and away from home. I only heard second hand about the rows that caused, but Mollie married Bob and became Mrs Powell.
My contact with Mollie was limited for some years, but when I moved to Bampton in 1994 we spent some happy times re-connecting until she died in her 90s. I salvaged the accounts book, diligently kept by Mollie in her handwriting, from her effects, ( Mollie kept every¬ thing) hoping it might be of local interest and as a record of bygone times for agricultural workers.
Margaret Josephs 2023

Charles Trussler & Joyce Lardner 1942

Terry Rouse showing how supple he is

Terry Rouse on their first combine, a Claas, here doing stationary threshing

Terry Rouse with Tennis elbow

Terry Rouse on the 30D tractor, a David Brown diesel

Black and white photograph of T. W. Pembrey shop in the High Street

Photograph of Staff at Weald Manor

Copy of a Souvenir pull-out of roof restoration 2009-10 in The Beam 4
The total cost of the repairs to the Nave and Chancel Roofs was £410,000. In addition to the large number of donations from local people and those further afield, we received some £115,000 from a wide variety of events arranged by the Fund Committee members. These proved to be highly enjoyable for our community and included: A Raise The Roof Auction of Promises, a Clay Pigeon Shoot, a number of Concerts held in the Church, a talk by a famous local politician, an ‘Antiques Road Show’ held on a glorious summer’s afternoon and a Barn Dance held in Church. Donations from organisations within Bampton included: The Friends of Bampton Church Bampton Parish Council Bampton Community Shop Society for The Protection of Bampton The Junior Church We also received over £230,000 from external sources including: English Heritage The Church Commissioners Oxford Historic Churches Trust The National Churches Trust The Mercers Company Garfield Weston Trust The Pye Trust The Council for The Care of Churches We are most grateful to all our many Donors, without whose support the Roof could not have been repaired