The Bampton Beam used to be produced three times a year. This issue is from December 1997. The topics covered and the advertisers are :-

ARTICLES AND NOTICES
The Library Needs Your Help – use it or lose it forever…
Robert Vesey Room
Vision of the Future – housing planning news
Bampton Village Hall by Susan Phillips
Treasure Island – Oxfordshire Touring Company
Friends of St Mary’s Christmas Quiz
Church Services at Christmas
Friends of St Mary’s Update
Christmas Greetings from 1944 – card sent to Mrs Edie Quick from her sister Mrs Louie Weston’s husband Tom who was in the army in Italy
Remembrance in Bampton
Bampton’s Traffic Calming Scheme Overwhelmingly Approved by Residents by Roger Howard, Parish Councillor
Witney and District Carers
Bampton Carers Group
Minibus
Carers Week
Carers Christmas Party
Health Helpline targets people in rural areas
Dialability and the Disabled Living Centre
West Oxon Citizen Advocacy
Oxfordshire children needing your help – Family Placement Teas
Architecture Around Bampton, written and drawn by Gilbert Marsh
Do you want a crime free village? Village Watch scheme
What’s Been and What’s to Come?
Bampton Gardening Club
The SPAJERS
Bampton Pumpkin Club
District Council News from Jonathan Phillips
North East Carterton Development
North East Witney Development
Oxfordshire County Council Structure Plan 1996-2011
Planning Appeals
District Council Budgets 1998/99
Youth Club under threat
Bampton Bill – cartoon
Local Bampton Man, Tim Green in Three Day RAC Rally
Bampton Recreation Ground
Bampton Boys FC, ‘The Bees’
Bampton Tennis Club
Bampton-in-the-Bush Cricket Club
Basketball
Bampton Cubs and Scouts
Notice Board
Bampton Bush Centre
Amnesty International
Bampton Exhibition Foundation
Whist Drive – Bampton Fire Service
Bampton Gardening Club
The Bampton Appraisal
Guess who has had a driving licence for 70 years in December? Answer in April’s issue of The Beam
The Burford Singers
Clanfield Historical Society
Bampton Pre-School Playgroup
Bampton Small Business Association
Bampton Youth Centre
Bampton Welfare Trust
Macmillan Cancer Relief, Bampton, Faringdon and Carterton
The Children’s Society
The Mummers are about once more at Christmas – beware, by Don Rouse
Use Them or Lose Them Campaign – support local small businesses
“Posh Spice”, The Food Page by Gilly French
Letters to the Editor
Great Response to Fire Alarm – three new fire fighters have qualified for duty
Bampton author’s new book, ‘Can Anyone See Bermuda’ by A S Jackson to be published by Cirrus Association in December
Volunteer Link-Up
Letters to Auntie Beam
Gardening Life by ‘Edie Bindweed’
Bampton Methodist Chapel
A Farewell to Mr Temple – John Temple closed his hardware store in the Market Place on 21 November 1997 and has retired to a well-earned rest in Ampney Orchard
Pumpkin Club Bingo
Out of Work Farmer -Turned Agriculture Correspondent – by Don Rouse
West Oxfordshire Arts Association News and Events
Crossword
Volunteer Reading Help
Diary of Forthcoming Events
Bampton Directory 1997
Support Bampton Facilities – The Library needs your help!

LIST OF ADVERTIZERS
Temple's Bampton Ltd, Builders Merchants, Hardware, Fancy Goods and Toys
G A J Soame & Associates, planning consultancy and architecture and property services
Andrew Bowman, Master Thatcher
Chennells, hairdressers
Grey Gables Garage
Farmington Stone
Edby Vines, producers of English Wines and Vine Supplier
Market Square Garage
N Woodley, building maintenance
The Appliance Doctor
Philippa Rayne, osteopath, Lesley Mellin, reflexologist/aromatherapist, Fiona Geary, physiotherapist
E Taylor & Son, funeral directors
Adrian Dunsby, carpenter
Bampton Fax Bureau at Emmie’s Newsagents
Curtain Choice
Bampton Small Business Association Late Night Shopping and Craft Fair
Community Care
Beamtech video, TV and Monitor Services
The Crop Shop Too, hairdressers
R Cooper, builders, painters, carpentry, joinery, general repairs and dry stone walling
Theatre Express Performing Arts Schools and Theatre Company
The Pitstop and Oxford Carb Services
Bubbles dog grooming
Danetree veterinary surgeons
Londis community shop
Abbey Properties, estate agents
The Romany Inn
A Simmonds, the old-fashioned village store
Electric Vehicles Ltd
Homers mobile vehicle repairs and servicing

The Bampton Beam used to be produced three times a year and given to every household. This issue is from April 1996 and the list of topics covered and advertisers are:-

ARTICLES AND NOTICES
Bush Centre saved, five year plan
Meet the new vicar – Revd David Lloyd and his wife Jenny
District Councillor, Jonathan Phillips says Oxfordshire County Council is threatening to sell The Paddocks for private housing
New editorial board for The Bampton Beam, Editor Fenella Gray
Friends of St Mary’s Bampton, fundraising report and forthcoming events
The Society for the Protection of Bampton and Bampton Recreation Ground Trust
The News from Bampton 100 years ago, extracts from The Faringdon quire by Simon Garrett
Squire’s Final Jig – Francis Shergold retires in his 61st year of Morris Dancing
Bampton Railway (the East Gloucestershire Branch) by Major R A Colville
Bampton Recreation Ground, multi-sports court, tennis club and the Pavilion – when, how and costs?
Ask a Policeman
Bradford and Bingley Christmas Prize Draw – winner Bernard Hitchman
The Thames Path, Britain’s next National Trail, the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
Bampton Environmental Watch Group
Bampton W.I.
Letters to Auntie Beam
Notice Board
Bampton in Old Photographs – book to be published in summer 1996
Bampton Gardening Club
Bampton Conservative Association AGM
Ann Manly’s print – The Shillbrook Ford, Bampton - limited edition print sold in aid of Friends of St Mary’s
Cancer Research Campaign, Bampton Branch, forthcoming events
Bampton Welfare Trust
The Royal British Legion, Women’s Section
Bampton Village Hall, remedial work to cure damp problem completed
Bampton ‘250’ Club
Burford School – Fun Night for all the family
Bampton Pumpkin Club
Bampton Youth Club
S.P.A.J.E.R.S
The Burford Singers, concert with The Cotswold Chamber Orchestra, Good Friday 5 April 1996
Lions Cotswold Motor Fair, Sunday 19 May 1996
Architecture around Bampton, written and drawn by Gilbert Marsh (The Old Cottage, Bell Lane, Bampton)
Gardening Column by Bill Carr – Cuttings
Photograph of tenth birthday party of the Bampton Beam
The Bampton Directory
Letters to the Editor
Bampton Parish Council News
Arts Page – West Oxfordshire Arts Association, Members Spring Exhibition, 21 April to 12 May, ‘Darling Buds of May’
The Food Page by Gilly French
Bampton Primary School – Yenworthy 1996, contributions by Sophie Hoy, Jenny Morris, Charlotte Daw, David Llsmer and Louisa Howard
Bampton Youth Club news. Drama Attack – a new drama group, Bampton Acts.
Regional Rock and Pop Quiz at Caroll Youth Centre, Winchester
National Music Festival, local bands Freefall and Phil and Dave Trio
Our Church by Bishop Paul Burrough
Volunteer Link-up
Crossword

LIST OF ADVERTIZERS
Electric Vehicles Ltd
Farmington Stone Company
Midland Bank
Curtain Choice
Danetree Veterinary Surgeons
Community Care
Bubbles dog grooming
Andrew Bowman, master thatcher
Bampton Fax Bureau at Emmie’s newsagents
J Temple, hardware, DIY, fancy goods & toys
The Appliance Doctor
Abbey Properties
CSW Picture Framers, Aston
Castle Wines
Health Matters
A Tisket-a-Tasket
Eastern Cuisine
Grey Gables Garage
N Woodley, building maintenance
E Taylor & Son, funeral directors
A Simmonds, the old-fashioned village store
The Romany Inn
The Pitstop, complete motoring service
Philippa Rayne osteopath and Lesley Mellin, reflexologist and aromatherapist
R Cooper, builders, painters, carpentry, joinery, general repairs and dry stone walling
Ironing tel: 851182
Gardening and Painter, Roger West
Alpha Print (Oxon) Ltd

William Nathan 'Jingy' Wells danced, fooled and played the fiddle for Bampton Morris from the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.
In this picture he is seen with his fiddle.
The hat, waistcoat, trousers and socks (odd socks) are still cared for by the Bampton Traditional Morris Men.

These are brothers Jim and Dick Daniels. Jim is the older brother standing in the front in a scout's uniform. Dick is in the background. A few years later Jim joined the Air Scouts and did circuits and bumps and enjoyed it despite not liking heights.
Their had a sister called Freda who became Mrs Freda Bradley and she wrote a lovely book about life in Bampton she recalled during her life.

This letter, dated November 1st 1944 was send by Stan Smith's commanding officer to Stan's father informing him that Stan was missing but may be a POW. He was a POW and near the end of the was became one of the POWs who took part in the what became known as the Long March. They were marched from East Germany keeping ahead of the advancing Russians. Stan walked almost 1,000 miles. He survived.

This lovely photograph shows James and Elizabeth (nee Fox) Green with their children Lizzie, Harry, Jack, Jim, Rose, Fred and Percy taken about 1902.
Harry, really Henry Arthur Green died in the WWI

Although the caption talks about a 'Street Fayer' the picture is actually of Jim Smith and Martin Barber in fancy dress for the Shirt Race organised annually by the SPAJERS ie the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing. The society organises fun things to raise money for the senior citizens of Bampton and Lew.

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.

Freda Daniels was not quite 3 years old when she was dressed up to sell poppies in 1929. She was born April 13th 1927. The photograph of her sitting has '3 years old' written on the back.
When she married she became Mrs Freda Bradley.

This article was written by Fenella Gray in the summer of 2012 where she documents the history of the Community Shop up to that point.
In 2008 the Archive made a film about the Community Shop up to that point. For a while, the shop had to close because the owners of the premises felt the storage facility at the back was a fire hazard but happily, the shop re-opened not too long after next door but one in Rosemary Lane with much improved facilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hkz-LOLJmk This is the link to the 2008 film made by the Archive