Bampton Community Archive

May 2020 (issue 5)

BCA - 2022.4005-BCA - 2022.4006
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2020

Part of Lockdown Lowdown

May 2020 (issue 6)

BCA - 2022.4005-BCA - 2022.4006
Part
2020

Part of Lockdown Lowdown

June 2020 (issue 7)

BCA - 2022.4005-BCA - 2022.4006
Part
2020

Part of Lockdown Lowdown

June 2020 (issue 8)

BCA - 2022.4005-BCA - 2022.4006
Part
2020

Part of Lockdown Lowdown

The Paddocks declared a fire and virus hazard at over crowded caravan site

BCA - 2021.2529
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December 2020

The Paddocks has permission for 8 plots with one static and one travelling caravan supposed to be on each plot. These articles detail how this has been breached. It also reports on the death of Donna Smith at the site who had been placed in a car and left there all night and then all day on one of the hottest days of the year.

Bampton Community Archive

Farms turned into fortresses

BCA - 2022.4009
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2017

Tim Hook from Cote Lodge Farm

Nik Stanbridge

Wheelie bin hung on the Village Hall sign

BCA - 2022.4015
Item
2019

Nik Stanbridge

Roger Barnes 1949-2022

BCA - 2022.4020
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2022

Roger Barnes lived in Ducklington with his wife Margaret, instrumental in many Bampton bellringers learning to become method ringers. He was one of the top ringers in Oxfordshire and rang in the cathedral church and others in Oxford. He taught many young people in Ducklington to ring and to help those in Bampton. Margaret is also a ringer and continued to ring in Bampton and for several years has been vice tower captain alongside the captain, Dave Rose.

Janet Westman