Promotional postcards used by Abbey properties Estate Agents in Bampton, showing old photographs of Bampton. Namely The horse fair outside the Horseshoe pub, and the corner of Church Street and Bridge Street showing the Elephant and Castle when thatched and the Wheatsheaf Pub
Terry Crowley, the father of Rosemary Linnet Sanguine, bought Thatched Cottage in the early 1960s and set about doing some research on the dwelling, which is one of the oldest in Bampton. This pdf documents his findings. The Thatched Cottage, in Church Street, probably the oldest house in Bampton. Terry and Wendy Crowley moved to Bampton in 1963 and the house was then derelict. Owned by William Lock and his wife Rose. History includes notes and text written by John Blair Historian.
Newspaper article about Janet Newman organising the Bampton Festival in 1985, originally meant to celebrate the building of the Grammar School built from funds left by Robert Vesey in 1653. The Festival included events, concerts and exhibitions including skeleton of child and many photographs of Old Bampton.
Mr & Mrs Horace Morse and daughter Kit, later Mrs Kit Jackson Horace Morse collected the contents of the lavatory buckets which were put outside the houses on Wednesday. He had a horse drawn cart with a tank on the back and would then spread this on farmers' fields. He also collected the ashes and rubbish in a high sided square cart and emptied this in Gog Lane. Sewerage didn't came to Bampton until 1950's.