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.
Series of Photographs taken early 1980 featuring some of the machinery on display. The photos are described as follows: BA40FA~1 - Ploughing with teams of 3 bullocks, young boy leading the front bullock and a ploughman on the reins. Each team pulled a single furrow plough. BA2357~1 - Mr Fred Hornsby at the front of the combine. Fred worked for John Henly on Bampton Deanery farm and in later years for his son Roy. This picture approximately 1980. BA0C0D~1 - Detail of a traction engine. There would have been one at opposite sides of the field and the implement, such as a plough or potato drill, would be pulled from side to side by the steel hawser seen here under the engine. The engine provided the power to turn the cable drum to wind in the cable. Originally the engine would have been fired by solid fuel but many were later converted to run on oil. BABDA1~1 - Douglas Read, OBE born 1926 taking part in a ploughing match. Doug got his MBE several years after this picture was taken and it was for services to ploughing. He has was national ploughing match champion more than once and in later years was a judge for the High Cut class at the Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins and Burford Ploughing Match. (Known to many locals as the 3Fs and a B). BA4883~1 - The driver of a plough being drawn across the field by a traction engine at the Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins and Burford Ploughing match.
Image of young girl on seesaw in the Playing Field. New Road. View shows houses in Bushey Row. Adjacent to Fire Station, Field has been built over with Pembroke Close
Tom Parker the solicitor had his premises here. From the late C19th it was Constables Bakery and today, 2022 it is the Chinese Take Away called Mark's Kitchen
Ordnance Survey Plan SP3203-3303. 1971 Extending from Mt Owen Rd east inc. Gogg Lane, Aston Road and part of Aston. showing the following places: New Road White Owl Farm Bradshaw Close Kenlincott Kiln Close Back Lane Greenacres Lane Elmside Barry House Ferndale Back Cottage
Byeways Laundry Lane Kingsway Farm High Street West End The Limes West End Farm Home Farm House Greens Row Elvina Aston Ditch Mercury Close Beam Cottage Old Gasworks Building New Road The Willows St Andrews