RAF Signal Station, Weald having annual inspection April 1993
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RAF Signals station at Weald. The air officer supporting Air Command carrying out the annual inspection in April 1993
Bampton Community Archive
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RAF Signal Station, Weald having annual inspection April 1993
RAF Signals station at Weald. The air officer supporting Air Command carrying out the annual inspection in April 1993
Bampton Community Archive
Exhibition of WW1 held in Vesey Room
Public looking at exhibits of WW1 memorabilia held in Bampton Museum Vesey room 2004
Janet Westman
Molly Rose awarded a badge by Gordon Brown 2008 for her work in the ATA
Molly Rose flew 38 different types of aircraft during WWII including the Spitfire as part of her work when in the Air Transport Auxiliary.
Bampton Community Archive
A talk "Arming All Sides" in the Village Hall October 2014
A talk about the arms industry during the First World War and beyond will be held at the village hall in October 2014. Sue Smith and Symon Hill gave the talk on October 23rd.
Nik Stanbridge
Peter Davis and his exhibition in the Old Grammar School about Witney Airfield 2015
Witney Gazette June 24th 2015.
Peter Davis from Church Street put on a detailed and very interesting exhibition for the Bampton Community Archive in the Old Grammar School, Church Close about the Witney Airfield. The only suggestion of an airfield in the area now is in the names of three local roads, De Havilland Way, Range Road and Richard Jones Road.
Damaged Spitfires and Hurricanes aircraft damaged during WWII were serviced here. The airfield was important in both WWI and WWII. It opened in 1918 and closed in 1951.
The site was used as an RAF training unit, a base for tennis, horse racing and motorcycle speedway as well as for Witney and Oxford Aero Club and Witney Aeronautical College.
The catalogue of this exhibition, full of really interesting photos of the airfield is still on sale in the Vesey room.
Bampton Community Archive
Archaeological Dig at RAF Brize Norton
Newspaper Cutting about a dig on the Brize Norton Airfield which has uncovered several different types of aircraft bits from 45 German aircraft captured by the Allies in 1945 and taken to the base for testing, and USA aircraft from the time that the USAF were based at Brize in 1950's. These will be displayed at the RAF Brize Norton Heritage Centre
Janet Westman