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Molly Rose awarded a badge by Gordon Brown 2008 for her work in the ATA
Molly Rose flew 38 different types of aircraft during WWII including the Spitfire as part of her work when in the Air Transport Auxiliary.
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Lee Mackie appeals for more foster parents June 1st 2016
Lee Mackie lost her son Jason who was in the Royal Marines while he was serving in Afghanistan. Not surprisingly, Lee has struggled with life since then but in the last three years she has fostered 3 babies
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£54m to widen the A40 between Witney and Oxford
This is a bit of a pipe-dream and it remains (at March 15th 2017) something to be thought about.
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Poster for the Bampton Community Archive's first ever exhibition June-July 2002
The Bampton Community Archive came into being in 2002, the brain child of Jo(sephine) Lewington ably assisted by Tony & Lis Page. A request was sent out for old photographs, documents etc and Tony and Jo plus
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Instructions for wearing the ribbon; WWII medal
This letter and piece of ribbon was sent to Dor Thompson, World War Two and explains how the ribbon should be used with the medal.
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Hunt meet at Weald Manor January 10th 2016
Usually the hunt meets at Weald Manor on the last Monday before Christmas but weather occasionally means it has to be after Christmas which is what happened to what should have been the December 2015 meet.
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The Community Church Council has embarked on an ambitious programme to completely rebuild and extend the 1812 Gray and Davison organ which has been inside St Mary's Church since the 1850s.
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February 12th 2016 tree behind Patrick Strainge butcher's being trimmed
There is a lovely tree behind Patrick Strainge butchers which is being kept clipped to have a rounded surface and this shows the men on a type of cherry picker trimming it.
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December 19th 2016 Hunt Meet at Weald Manor
There was a hunt meet at Weald Manor Monday 19th December 2016.
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Choir BBQ at David and Sarah Jane New's farm in Black Bourton June 12th 2016
David and Sarah Jane New invite the choir of St Mary's to a BBQ at their farm each year. David is organist and choirmaster at St Mary's. We had a lovely BBQ but had to beat a hasty retreat to the barn when the heavens opened.
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