This is a sound record lasting three and a half minutes of John Simpson from Radio Oxford talking with Ivy Constable.See entry number 2017.538 for much more detail about the shop.
When Francis Shergold's Bampton Traditional Morris Men went to dance in Italy in 1978 they learnt a new dance. When they went to do the dance on Whit Monday in Bampton, Terry Rouse couldn't remember the name they'd given to the dan...
In this sound recording Francis Shergold talks about going round to Jingy Wells' house and playing melodian with him. 'Coming Thru' The Rye' is played at the end. Total length 1 min 30 secs.
This recording of Bampton Traditional Morris Men dancing Maid of The Mill was made in 1987. It is preceded by Francis Shergold explaining that in his early days of dancing with Jingy Wells and the team, there was no pre-arranged rota for visitin...
Tom Worley is a Witney man and in this recording he is being interview by Radio Oxford about his collection of over 3,000 photographs of Witney and surrounding villages. He goes on to talk about Rock Farm which was originally owned by the Duke of...
Francis Shergold tells whose dancing style he liked very much and copied when he was learning to dance. Then we hear the Bampton Traditional Morris men dancing to Foggy Dew, one day in 1987. The recording lasts 3 mins.
This is a sound file of Constant Billy being played on the melodeon in 1987 for the Bampton Traditional Morris Men, early on Bank Holiday Monday while the dancers were in New Road.
In this sound recording of 1 minute and 40 seconds Francis Shergold talks about the way William Nathan "Jingy" Wells used to dress. You then hear Bonny Green Garters being played in 1987, many years after Jingy had died. Have a look at...
This Morris dance, performed by the Bampton Traditional Morris men, became known as 'The Italian Job'. "It is a bog standard double side step." Rod Stradling introduced the tune in 1982 - it came from his friends in Ponte Caf...
Roy Shergold, born c1926, was in the Home Guard in the early days of WWII because he was not old enough to enlist. Once he was 17 in 1943 he joined the Merchant Navy. He got his demob in 1947 and up to his 82nd birthday he had been unemployed fo...
When war broke out Roy Shergold of Bampton in Oxfordshire was too young to sign up but he was accepted into Bampton's Home Guard. He was in the Home Guard until he was old enough to sign up for the Merchant Navy in 1943. This is Roy's m...