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The wedding of George Frederick Lomas and Lillian Frances Ody at St Mary The Virgin, Bampton c1938. They lived in Belgrave Cottages, Church Street until the late 1990s when Fred, then a widower moved to a bungalow in Manor View.
Bampton Community Archive
A brief history of the education at Weald Manor
A brief history of Weald Manor• An Academy for young gentlemen is mentioned in 1790• Followed by John Beechey's Mansion House Academy in 1815 which moved into Weald Manor in the 1820s and closed in the late 1850s.
Bampton Community Archive
The Life and Work of Tony Page 1928 to 2015
The Eulogy by Tony Page's son Martin, gives a full account of his life. For us in Bampton Tony was in at the beginning of the Bampton Community Archive and did all the printing for the charity up to his death.
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton National School class photo 1922
This photograph, taken in 1922 according to the date on the bottom right corner, is of a class at Bampton National School in Church View. It is sad that we don't know the names of any of the children in the picture.
Bampton Community Archive
Brigadier Rupert Crowdy celebrated his 105th birthday March 13th 2015
Brigadier Rupert Crowdy OBE served in the army in India and Burma and afterwards he organised the 'shipping' of coal into Berlin during the Berlin Siege. In 1962 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
Bampton Community Archive
This article appeared in the Memory Lane section of the Witney Gazette March 4th 2015. It recalls a time when local residents lost patience waiting for Oxfordshire County Council to organise cleaning of the road-sides.
Bampton Community Archive
Building first amusements at the Bampton Pleasure Fair, Aug 18th 1965
Building first amusements at the Bampton Pleasure Fair, Aug 18th 1965
Nik Stanbridge
Invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, 1959
Invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, 1959
Nik Stanbridge
Horse Shoe, 1910. Two ladies and a dog in the doorway
Horse Shoe, 1910. Two ladies and a dog in the doorway
Nik Stanbridge