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A fair was held in the Market Square at the same time as the Horse Fair. The square is filled with stalls which continue on down High Street. The sign 'Robinson Cheap Butcher' can be seen in the square.
Nik Stanbridge
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A fair was held in the Market Square at the same time as the Horse Fair. The square is filled with stalls which continue on down High Street. The sign 'Robinson Cheap Butcher' can be seen in the square.
Nik Stanbridge
Horse Fair & fair across the west side of the town hall
Horse fair and fun fair seen outside the west side of the Market Square. It would also have filled the Market Square. The Inn at the top left of the photograph is the Lamb, known by locals as The Tree because of the large Ash tree growing outside it. The Inn was completely demolished in 1960 to make way for building the Market Square Garage. The sign for the Talbot hotel shows the landlord to be W Norman. Almost every man wears a hat.
Nik Stanbridge
Building first amusements at the Bampton Pleasure Fair, Aug 18th 1965
Building first amusements at the Bampton Pleasure Fair, Aug 18th 1965
Nik Stanbridge
Bampton Brass Band. Market Square. 1908.
Bampton Brass Band. Market Square. Notice that the arches of the Town Hall were bricked up. 1908.
Nik Stanbridge
West face of the Town Hall and Eeles shop
West face of the Town Hall and Eeles shop
Nik Stanbridge
Shirt Race evening. Outside the Town Hall opposite Londis
Image of crowd outside the Londis Shop
watching the Shirt Race
Janet Westman
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
Butlers of Bampton Wine Merchant
Small newspaper advert in Witney Gazette 1984 Butlers wine merchant
Janet Westman
Pumpkin Club Annual Street Fair
Advert in Witney Gazette for Pumpkin Club Annual Street Fair
May Day
Janet Westman