Invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, 1959
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Invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, 1959
Nik Stanbridge
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Invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, 1959
Invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, 1959
Nik Stanbridge
Harry Pocock with his thrashing machine and tractor in 1958
Harry Pocock with his thrashing machine and tractor in 1958 driving out of Church Street into Broad Street. Edwin, Ruth and Joe Buckingham are on the tractor with him.
An invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, Agricultural and Thrashing Contractor to Alex Townsend of Ashtree Farm (in Weald Street) for threshing and baling @ £47 5s (£47.25p) but with a contra account of 2ctw of tater (potatoes), 2 men combing and 5 gallons of paraffin £8.11s.6d (£8.55½p) giving a bill of £38.13s.6d (£38.65½p) sent April 1959.
An invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, Agricultural and Thrashing Contractor to Alex Townsend of Ashtree Farm (Weald Street) for threshing and baling sent December 1959.
Seen in the spring of 1963, talking with Marjorie Pollard in Cheapside, when we had huge drifts of snow.
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Newspaper clipping advertising the weekly cattle market held in Witney
Newspaper clipping from the Witney Gazette April 4th 1958 advertising the weekly cattle market held in Witney
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Bowls Club dinner, February 1954
Trav Gordon, Francis Shergold, Mrs Gordon, Bessie Townsend, Ann Shergold
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Letter from R. Vaughan Williams to Bernard Rose, 1952
Letter from R. Vaughan Williams to Bernard Rose regarding a music rehearsal.
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Sam Bennett from Ilmington in Warwickshire
Sam Bennett. He moved to Warwickshire but walked to Bampton to fiddle for the Morris at Whitsun. He would arrive at Mr & Mrs Townsend's Castle Farm on Bridge St and announce 'I be 'ere'. To earn his keep, he'd stay on for a few weeks doing farm work for Mr Townsend.
"The war took away many of the young men, and for the first time in recorded history the Whit Monday performances were suspended during 1917 and 1918. However, Wells had recently taught the dances to a group of men at Alvescot, and on the Whit Monday 1919 two of these stepped into the reformed Bampton set. One stayed only that year, but the older, William Flux, had married a daughter of long-time lead dancer Thomas Tanner, and became the organiser of the team.
This brought him into conflict with Wells - Flux wanted them to dance more at Pubs, Wells at the private houses - and this reached crisis point in 1925. The following year Wells refused to play for them, so both Bertie Clark from Alvescot and Sam Bennett from Ilmington were drafted in to provide music.
In 1927, for the first time in recorded history, two teams appeared on the streets: the old side under Tanner and Flux, and a young side recently raised by Wells. They continued in relatively peaceful co-existence for some years, but by the mid 1930s performances by the Tanner side were more sporadic, with only Wells fielding a team most Whit Mondays.
The final appearance by the Tanner team was in 1941, and it was left to Wells to keep it going during the war, and beyond." Keith Chandler
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Morris dancing in front of the Elephant and Castle (1950)
1950 Morris dancing in front of the Elephant and Castle on Bridge Street
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Wide angle photo of Beam Cottage. Dor Thomson and family (including Julie and Roger Powell)
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