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SPAJERS: Shirt Race cancellation 2023

SPAJERS: Shirt Race cancellation 2023

  • BCA - 2024.6902
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Newspaper article about the cancellation of 2023 Shirt Race, which had been one of Oxfordshire’s most popular social events was cancelled in 2023 , The historic Great Shirt Race at Bampton, organised by the Spajers (the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing) - has delighted hundreds of people annually for seven decades. Cancelled because three committee members had resigned. Don Rouse, one of the organisers still in post, was Master of Ceremonies at this race since 1970.
The modern version began in 1953 when village gasman John Quick, farmer Doug Read and fishmonger Paul Bevington dreamed up the idea of a pram race through the streets to celebrate the Queen’s Coronation.

Janet Westman

John Tanner (Jn)

John Tanner (Jn)

  • BCA - 2023.4312
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  • 2023

John Tanner (Jn)

Nik Stanbridge

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