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- BCA - 2021.3069
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- 2021
Nik Stanbridge
- BCA - 2021.3109
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- 2021
Albert Townsend's horse drawn carriage service which he ran from Castle View Farm on Bridge Street. He particularly took people to and from Bampton railway station which was about 2 miles outside Bampton on the edge of what is now RAF Brize Norton. He was very enterprising having one of the first, if not the first lorries in Bampton which he used to collect coal from the station for selling. This lorry would be scrubbed spotless, seats fastened to the floor and the children from the Methodist Sunday school taken for a day trip to Savernake Forest for a treat once a year. He also farmed, first keeping pigs behind the Elephant and Castle when he had the license there and then with other farming aspects when he moved across the road to Castle View Farm.
Nik Stanbridge
Albert Townsend with his pony and trap
- BCA - 2021.3102
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- 2021
Albert Townsend with pony & trap. He bought the Elephant & Castle in 1911 then moved across the road when he bought Castle Farm in 1939 where he raised pigs. He also ran a coal deliver business, collecting the coal in bulk from Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in a once of the first lorries ever owned by someone in Bampton. He used a beautiful horse drawn vehicle as a taxi taking people to and from the station and was basically a true entrepreneur.
Nik Stanbridge
Dora Townsend sitting on a pig
- BCA - 2021.3067
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- 1927
Dora Townsend as a child sitting on a pig, 1927 when she lived at the Elephant and Castle. Her parents were Albert and Mary Elizabeth Townsend and she had older sister Ethel and Gladys and a brother Albert who was always known as either Son or Sonner
Nik Stanbridge
Possibly Albert Townsend with either daughter Ethel or Gladys
- BCA - 2021.3070
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- 2021
Nik Stanbridge
Frank Hudson with grandfather Alberrt Townsend's last two horses
- BCA - 2021.3068
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- 2021
Nik Stanbridge
Two ladies in service with Mary Townsend in London; one standing is Ms Groombridge
- BCA - 2021.3078
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- 2021
Nik Stanbridge