Sales brochure for the outlying portions of Lew Estate Sept 27th 1917

Soldier in Military Uniform
possibly Ernest Daniels

This is a photograph of Arthur Montague Colvile going to Buckingham Palace with his wife Phyllis Muriel (Innes) to receive his DSO.

Corporal William Woodley, of the 2nd battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment. Photographed with his wife 1918 or 1919. Lent by Maurice Woodley.

This is a picture of Bampton Town's football club in the 1918-1919 season.The man in the stripped top next to the man in the bowler hat is Bill Hudson.

Photograph showing the service and crowds taking part in the inauguration of the War Memorial in 1920

Sam Bennett born (1865-1951) from Ilmington, a frequent dancer and musician in Bampton, this photo dated 1920
Sam had the distinction of being called “a rotter” by Cecil Sharp. He was responsible for reviving the Morris tradition in the Warwickshire village of Ilmington. Although a fiddle player himself, he learned the tunes from a local pipe and tabor player, Tom Foster, who “no longer had enough teeth to hold the pipe in place” In the process of reviving the dances, Bennett did some improving and inventing along the way. To Sharp, this was inexcusable meddling; what he most treasured about traditional dance was that is was supposedly not the work of individual creativity, but of centuries of continuous evolution by the common, preferably uneducated people. Bennett was recorded in 1933 by a Harvard academic, James Madison Carpenter. Being a self-taught fiddler, and having learned his tunes directly from a piper, it is little wonder that his playing, though very rhythmic, was plain and unadorned except with frequent open-string drones.

Photo of Billy Dewe with another Morris Dancer possibly standing outside a cottage in Lavender Square

Grace Glanville talks about her time working as a maid at Weald Manor in the 1920s

The map was produced in 1921. The first map is has been reused to show where council houses were to be built on the south side of New Road and where the sewerage pipes were to be laid to the sewerage works along the Buckland Road.

Mains sewerage came to Bampton in 1958 after a long struggle and at a cost of £105,000. Miss Marjorie Pollard was the driving force but in the end, it was the death of Horace Morse who emptied the 'night soil' buckets twice a week which made it imperative. Jack Bellinger was the first manager of the sewerage works.