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.
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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.
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Alec Wixey on the left with Roy Hewitt Morris dancing with Bampton Morris Men
Alec Wixey on the left with Roy Hewitt Morris dancing with Bampton Morris Men
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Musicians with the Bampton Morris Men
Arnold Woodley squire of the Bampton Morris Men on the left playing the fiddle, Brendan Cassidy on fiddle in the centre and Frank Purslow on the right.
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Arnold Woodley's Junior Morris team outside the Talbot 1974
Arnold Woodley's junior Morris team outside the Talbot in 1974
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Arnold Woodley & his musicians 1974 outside the Jubilee
Arnold Woodley and his musicians outside the Jubilee Inn in the Market Square in 1973. Frank Purslow on melodeon, Andrew Bathe on fiddle and Arnold on fiddle playing for the Bampton Morris Men
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Letter accepting invitation to Morris Party by Pete Cock and Vic Legg 1981
A letter from Vic Legg to Dave Rose accepting the invitation to attend the Bampton Traditional Morris Men's party November 1981 along with Pete Cock. About 1980/1 Trigg Morris were guests on Bampton's day of dance. They will be coming up from Bodmin in Cornwall. Pete and Vic were members of Trigg Morris in Bodmin, Cornwall.
Nik Stanbridge
Fete at Weald Manor to raise funds for new floor in St Mary's
This is a newspaper article from the Oxford Times June 10th 1960 which talks about the fete held at Weald Manor by kind permission of Mrs A.M. Colvile and her son Major R.A. Colvile. It was to raise funds for the renewal of part of the floor inside Saint Mary The Virgin Church, specifically the parquet flooring across the front of the aisles by the pulpit and lectern.
It was Whit Monday, the day of Morris Dancing in Bampton (until the government stopped Whit Monday being a Bank Holiday and fixed it at the last Monday in May with may or not be Whit Monday) and the dancers called at the Fete.
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Bampton Traditional Morris Dancers outside the Talbot
Bampton Traditional Morris Dancers under squire Francis Shergold, fool Terry Rouse outside The Talbot about 1982.
Brother and sister Francis Shergold and Ruth Wheeler on the right looking down at the two little boys
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men outside The Talbot
Reg Hall playing the fiddle for squire Francis Shergold's team The Bampton Traditional Morris Men outside the Talbot
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men, outside The Talbot
L-R Bill Daniels, Ray Borrett, Billy Main, Tony Daniels (started dancing in 1965), Martin Ferguson, David Rose dancing outside The Talbot under squire Francis Shergold
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