Excitement builds as filming of the Downton Abbey film takes place
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- January 16th 2019
In January 2019 filming for the Downton Abbey scenes in Bampton took place.
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Excitement builds as filming of the Downton Abbey film takes place
In January 2019 filming for the Downton Abbey scenes in Bampton took place.
Bampton Community Archive
Mrs Roger from Brook House, Bridge Street
Mrs Rogers lived in Brook House on Bridge Street where she sold sweets and newspapers. Bampton is 18 miles from Oxford and 18 from Swindon and somehow, Mrs Brooks managed to get a sugar allowance during WWII from both Swindon and Oxford which enabled her to make and sell lots of sweets.
Brook House is the one on the left of the picture, across the road.
She is on the left in this picture with Mr and Mrs Albert Townsend from across the road at Castle View Farm. They are standing just inside the wall of the farm.
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Community Archive put on an exhibition of the filming of Downton Abbey in Bampton
By 2019 all series of Downton Abbey had been filmed including the film of the series for showing in cinemas. Bampton Community Archive put on an exhibition of the filming in Bampton over the years in the Vesey Room. This room is withing the Old Grammar School and the doorway into this building off Church Close was used as the entrance for the Cottage Hospital in the series.
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Bertie Clark on fiddle for Bampton Morris
Between 1926 and 1938 Bertie Clark, although not a Bampton man, played for the Bampton Morris Men and he can be seen here on the left. The dancers are on the South side of the Market Square in front of Folly View semi-detached houses.
Bampton Community Archive
Downton Abbey begins to show benefits for Bampton
2012 was very much the early days of Downton Abbey having an effect in Bampton. The prediction of coachloads of American tourists coming was absolutely correct. By 2018 approximately 30,000 visitors went into the Vesey room housed in the building used as the Cottage Hospital in the drama to see the exhibition and memorabilia on sale. The Archive committee to the decision to have quality products only for sale because it is not an exhibition that attracts young children, space is very limited and the people who were coming clearly wanted quality memorabilia.
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Traditional Morris, May Bank Holiday Monday 1980
Dave Rose is seen dancing outside the Talbot on May Bank Holiday Monday in 1980. Roy Shergold is fooling and a young
Shaun Mullis can be seen resting on a car.
Bampton Community Archive
Program of Events to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II June 2012
There was a very full program of events that took place throughout Bampton from Saturday June 2nd to Tuesday June 5th.
This is the full list of the events.
Bampton Community Archive