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Threshing the corn using a steam engine to drive the threshing machine
Before combine harvesters were the norm, threshing was done any time from November onwards when other harvesting had been done and probably once the cattle had been brought in under cover for the winter.
Bampton Community Archive
Poster advertising Auction of Timber to be held immediately after the sale of stock in the Market Place, Bampton by Paxton and Holiday.
Janet Westman
To Ethel and Gladys from Albert, below to Albert from daugher Ethel
Postcards sent to their Daddy, Albert Townsend, in WWI by Gladys, Jack and Albert (always known as Son or Sonner) Townsend.
Nik Stanbridge
Part of Bampton in 1991: A photographic record by Andrew Hilditch
This picture shows the view down Mount Owen road. The spire of Saint Mary The Virgin church is visible on the skyline and the yellow crop of oilseed rape tells us it is April in 1991
Wedding of Daniel Gardner's son or daughter, Daniel is 3rd from right
Nik Stanbridge
William 'Bill' Cooper Hudson with Albert Townsend's lorry
Bill Hudson, father of Frank Hudson of Castle View Farm with Albert Townsend's lorry. Albert and his wife Mary Elizabeth owned the farm and raised Frank after his mother Ethel died when he was 7 weeks old
Nik Stanbridge
