Sonner Townsend clocks up 65 years with the Morris
- BCA - 2017.1139
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- 1980
'Sonner' Townsend, real name Albert, started dancing in 1925. In 1980 when he was 76 he clocked up 65 years of dancing and fooling.
Bampton Community Archive
Sonner Townsend clocks up 65 years with the Morris
'Sonner' Townsend, real name Albert, started dancing in 1925. In 1980 when he was 76 he clocked up 65 years of dancing and fooling.
Bampton Community Archive
Improving access to Oxfordshire's countryside and green spaces
TOE2 is Oxfordshire’s independent environmental funder, supporting projects that make real and lasting improvements to the environment and to the lives of local people. TOE2, a charity and a notfor-profit company, has worked in partnership with OCC for several years to improve access to rights of way and green spaces across the county, supporting the aims of the Oxfordshire Rights of Way Improvement Plan
Bampton Community Archive
Dramatic Society present 'Barnet's Folly' by Jan Stewer March 10th, 11th & 12th 1937
This is the program for a play put on by the Bampton Dramatic Society March 10th, 11th and 12th 1937. The play was called 'Barnet's Folly' by Jan Stewer. It was put on in the W. I. Hall (which is now called the Village Hall.)
Bampton Community Archive
Picture postcard High St looking East from the Grange.
Picture postcard of the High Street looking east from outside the Grange. Addressed to Miss K Phillips in Stanton Harcourt. The New Inn and Pembrey's department store can be see with the steeple of St Mary The Virgin in the background.
Bampton Community Archive
Picture postcard of Weald Manor addressed to Miss H Phillips
This is a picture postcard of Weald Manor addressed to Miss H Phillips and date stamped January 17th 1908
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Football team 1906/7. Postcard May 13th 1907 to Miss K Phillips
This is a picture postcard of Bampton Football team in the 1906/7 season. The card has been sent to Miss K Phillips in Stanton Harcourt from Bampton on May 13th 1907.
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Fire Brigade at Crystal Palace July 1907
Bampton Fire Brigade won many tournaments and they did well in July 1907 at Crystal Palace which is where this photograph was taken for a postcard
Bampton Community Archive
The White family who lived in Sandford Cottage from at least as early as 1900
The White family lived in Sandford Cottage, the thatched cottage on the south side of Sandford field from at least as early as 1900. These photographs cover the period 1910 to 1960. They are all family related, some babies, children, adults.
Bampton Community Archive
Freda Bradley wrote a lovely book called 'Bampton; The Way It Was.' These are photographs of her parents and grandparents and of Freda when young with her brothers Jim and Ken with their grandmother Mrs Dewe, taken in 1937.
Bampton Community Archive
Ted Dixey was known to most Bamptonians as a bellringer and Morris dancer. These are photograph of his maternal grandparents, his sister and husband Robert Ferguson, of Ted himself and his fiance of 40 years, Sylvia.
Bampton Community Archive