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- 1970s
Dr Alan Cole was in the practice in Bampton for many years. In this picture you can see his on-call alarm in his top pocket.
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Dr Alan Cole was in the practice in Bampton for many years. In this picture you can see his on-call alarm in his top pocket.
Bampton Community Archive
Funeral of Tom Smith aged 59 in 1969
Tom Smith was the son of a gypsy Queen and for 1969, the number of people and cars who came to his funeral was a very memorable affair. To this day, locals call the bend just outside Bampton on the Bampton to Brize Norton Road 'Hoppy's Corner.' It's on the right leaving Bampton just after passing the allotments.
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L-R Jim Townsend and cousin Frank Hudson shirt race winners 1965
Nik Stanbridge
Roy Shergold Morris Dancers 1964
Photograph of Francis Shergold's Morris side in 1964 with the names of some of the team
Francis and Roy Shergold
Alec Wixey
Jim Buckingham
Pete Allum
Arthur Hayes
Janet Westman
Alec Wixey is the dancer in Royal Marines uniform. He caught the train from Lympstone barracks in Devon to Swindon, got a lift to Bampton, danced all day in full uniform and went back to barracks in the evening. Francis & Roy Shergold on the left, Pete Allam far right. Sitting , on the right, is Mrs. Ellis with Gary Gerhardt and Mrs Snook with Wayne. Standing on the left are Sheila Stephens and Margaret Clements (Hayes).
Janet Newman
L-R Frank Hudson and cousin Jim Townsend shirt race winners 1964
Nik Stanbridge
Invoice from M Long & Sons funeral directors to Mr Alex Townsend for Mrs Elizabeth Townsend's burial
Invoice from M Long & Sons funeral directors to Mr Alex Townsend for Mrs Elizabeth Townsend's burial
Nik Stanbridge
Mrs Roger from Brook House, Bridge Street
Mrs Rogers lived in Brook House on Bridge Street where she sold sweets and newspapers. Bampton is 18 miles from Oxford and 18 from Swindon and somehow, Mrs Brooks managed to get a sugar allowance during WWII from both Swindon and Oxford which enabled her to make and sell lots of sweets.
Brook House is the one on the left of the picture, across the road.
She is on the left in this picture with Mr and Mrs Albert Townsend from across the road at Castle View Farm. They are standing just inside the wall of the farm.
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Wedding photograph of Stan Hawkins & Mavis Horne
Stan Hawkins and Mavis Horne were married in Bampton. They had two sons David and Michael and they lived on the Aston Road.
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Bampton has a Shirt Race around its 11 pubs. May 7th 1959
While the title of this piece refers to the Shirt Race, which started as a celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, this articles talks about many people and is a lovely snapshot of social life in Bampton in 1959. People mentioned include:-
Albert Chandlers, saddler and leather worker and chairman of the parish council and still working hard at his leather work aged 81. Reference is made to the 100 or so council houses built in Weald since the war but there have been no council houses built in Weald, they were along New Road and the area north of New Road.
Percival O Money, "bespoke and surgical boot maker where everything was done by hand, even stitching when repairing footwear. Mr Money was a founding member of the debating society and secretary of the bowls club (which was in the grounds of Weald Manor.)
John Quick, one of the founder member of the SPAJERS - The Society for Ancient Junketer - who organise the Great Shirt Race and other events to raise money for Bampton's senior citizens while providing fun for all.
Mr & Mrs Arthur Scott-Norman licensee of the Elephant and Castle Inn in Bridge Street, knew each other in their school days then bumped into each other again in Tanganyika, never to be parted again. During the war Mr Scott-Norman was in the RAF and later in the Colonial office in Dar-es-Salaam and Mrs Scott-Norman was matron of the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar-es-Salaam.
There is much more of interest in the articel.
Janet Rouse