This is Frank Hudson's parents who lived in Plantation Cottages and used the ration card to get their provisions from Local Shops in Bampton. The retailers mentioned on the card are Butcher - H Taylor and Sons, Butter and Margarine - GW Dutton Sugar, Bacon Tea and Jam - Mitchells Grocer
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The maps are of Brize Norton Cassington Eynsham Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Witney
Jim Hughes Garage, shop & coaches Percy Hughes had a butchers shop which was joined to the Lamb Inn. His shop faced into Cheapside. The thatched Cottage in Bell Lane is just visible on the left. Len Hughes, Percy's little son is with the tricycle on the left and when he became an adult Len bought the garage and shop in Cheapside which his son Jim ran with him when he was old enough and Len's wife ran the shop which sold knitting items. The shop later baecame a newsagents in a newsagents. The shop and house ilater became house called Exeter House, next to Cromwell House. The garage has been pulled down and a house built on the site, which is behind Cromwell House. The petrol pumps, which used to be in front of Cromwell House, have also gone.
Birth, marriage & death certificate for William George Jolly. Mr. Jolly was once manager of Duttons High Class Grocers in Bridge Street. Mrs. Jolly also worked in the shop
17 Photographs showing excavation of the Tanning Pits found behind the Wheatsheaf Inn. Date of these photographs, not shown, but Bampton had leather tanning industry