Article written by Keith Chandler about these two Morris Men.
Colin and ‘Curly’ (D.J. Titchener) came over to Bampton quite by accident, knowing nothing about its Morris dance tradition. They went into The Jubilee and started chatting to landlord Reg Pratley, telling him what they were interested in. Within a few minutes he was singing to them, mainly snatches, one being ‘Butter and Cheese and All’. He then produced sheets on which the words were written: Peter Kennedy had given them to him! Reg took them across to the Eagle, where Frank Purslow and Francis Shergold used to play in the bar.

Francis Shergold explains how Reg Hall from Croydon came to play for the Bampton Traditional Morris Men in the late 1950s and he still played for them in 2019. https://youtu.be/XNBXdTcF_c4

The garage in the Market Square was in existence at the start of the C20th when Oliver Onesipherous Collett owned and ran it. Around the middle of the twentieth century it was bought by Len Hughes.

Hughes' Garage was behind Cromwell House with access to it between Cromwell House and the house now called Exeter House

Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1959

Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1961

A freight wagon and engine at Brize Norton and Bampton station

A steam engine pulling three coaches leaving Brize Norton and Bampton railway station

Engine 9653 at the end of the platform by the signal box at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station

Steam engine and three coaches coming into Brize Norton and Bampton railway station. Lew Barrow can be seen in the distance