- BCA - 2021.2620
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- 1969
The WI put on the pantomime Jack and The Bean Stalk in the WI Hall in 1969
Inside the cow were Betty Collett and Valerie Adams played the cow
Jack & Jill were played by Penny Daniels and Angela Collett.
Nik Stanbridge
The WI put on the pantomime Jack and The Bean Stalk in the WI Hall in 1969
Inside the cow were Betty Collett and Valerie Adams played the cow
Jack & Jill were played by Penny Daniels and Angela Collett.
Nik Stanbridge
April & Michaela Mullis, Margaret Govier at Pumpkin Club mini fête 1974
April & Michaela Mullis and Margaret Govier at the Pumpkin Club mini fête 1974
Nik Stanbridge
Reports for Darby & Joan; Football clubs; St Mary's; British Legion; Baptist Church; NSPCC
This cutting gives a report on
Darby & Joan club
Football clubs
St Mary The Virgin Church
British Legion
Baptist Church
NSPCC
Nik Stanbridge
Bampton Marina to be decided upon by County Council
A Caversham firm want to make a 49 acre marina at Tadpole Bridge on the Thames. WODC lowlands area planning committee are objecting tot he plan because gravel extraction will have to take place first a marina could be built. The decision has been put into the hands of the County Council.
Now 2021 and no marina has been built or gravel extracted.
Nik Stanbridge
Bampton win football cup-tie match 1974-75 season
North Berkshire Cup, Bampton 4 Ardington 0
North Berkshire League Division II, Letcombe 2 Bampton A 2
Nik Stanbridge
Claire Wythes wins Queen's Guide award in 1978
15 year old Claire Wythes first went along to Guides aged three because her mother, Margaret Wythes was Brown Owl with the Bampton Guides. Claire was awarded the Queen's Guide Award, the Guides top award, at the WI Hall by the District Commissioner Mrs C Cooper.
Nik Stanbridge
Bampton Horticultural Society Autumn Show
The Bampton Horticultural Society has two shows a year and this is their autumn one. In the picture, Betty Collett the club secretary is seen holding a huge marrow with club chairman, John Snook. The John Taylor cup for the most overall points went to Mr Keith Bishop.
Nik Stanbridge
Clair Dryden invested as May Queen
Clare Dryden was invested as May Queen. Bob Harris, probably best known for presenting The Old Grey Whistle Test but at this point he was a presenter on Radio Oxford, put the sash on Clare. The ceremony took place in the WI Hall, Market Square. It is now the Village Hall.
Nik Stanbridge
The New Inn is renamed The Morris Clown
In 1973 the New Inn on Bampton's High Street was re-named The Morris Clown.
It was a very contentious issue because the jester in the Bampton Morris has never been called a Clown, always a Fool. That piece of history cut no mustard with the Brewery, Courage (Central) which is a pity. Now 48 years on, this perceived poorly renaming is hardly ever mentioned but there are still those who feel the name should be corrected.
Nik Stanbridge
Son Townsend 50 years a Morris fool; children with garlands
In 1974 Son Townsend clocked up 50 years as a Morris Dancer and later Fool in Bampton. He first danced out with the side in 1925. To mark the occasion a clock and silver salver were given to Son.
The young dancers left to right behind Son are (I think?) Clive Tanner, Fred Cook, Mat Green and Malcolm Willis.
The young children with their flower garlands are L-R Tim Waller, Emma Carruthers, Louise Walker and Martin Landray
Nik Stanbridge