Bampton Traditional Morris Men outside Jubilee
- BCA - 2023.4250
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- 1960s?
Photograph of Dancers outside the Jubilee Reg Hall on fiddle and Frank Purslow as Fool. Date not given
Janet Westman
Bampton Traditional Morris Men outside Jubilee
Photograph of Dancers outside the Jubilee Reg Hall on fiddle and Frank Purslow as Fool. Date not given
Janet Westman
Photo of John Quick, founder of the SPAJERS, pushing the gasworks pram in the shirt race, and a link to Short film by Roy Barratt of Life in Bampton in Oxfordshire recorded by Roy Barratt during the early 1960s. General views and events in Bampton ending with a short time on Church Green in Witney. Town Hall windows are bricked up, there are few cars about and the Elephant & Castle, Malt Shovel, Eagle and George & Dragon pubs were still open. https://youtu.be/fldMqNA41NY
Janet Westman
Bird's nest inside a letterbox
A bird was found to have made its nest inside the letterbox at Bampton and Brize Norton Railway station by Mrs Emmie Papworth who along with Mr F G Cannons was a post lady in Bampton about 1960. It was thought to be a member of the tit family and was disturbed only once while the eggs were being hatched.
Bampton Community Archive
Mrs Roger from Brook House, Bridge Street
Mrs Rogers lived in Brook House on Bridge Street where she sold sweets and newspapers. Bampton is 18 miles from Oxford and 18 from Swindon and somehow, Mrs Brooks managed to get a sugar allowance during WWII from both Swindon and Oxford which enabled her to make and sell lots of sweets.
Brook House is the one on the left of the picture, across the road.
She is on the left in this picture with Mr and Mrs Albert Townsend from across the road at Castle View Farm. They are standing just inside the wall of the farm.
Bampton Community Archive
British Legion Christmas party gathering
These ladies were at a British Legion Christmas gathering in the early 1960s.
Bampton Community Archive
Lloyd Hughes Owens encouraged some of his past pupils who had left school to form the 'Old Bamptonians hockey team.
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Traditional Morris Men
Dancers outside the Jubilee, this was Frank Purslow's 2nd year as Fool. Date not given
Janet Westman
Bampton Traditional Morris Men outside Horseshoe
Group Photo of the Morris Dancers outside the Horseshoe mid 1960's
Janet Westman
Bampton Traditional Morris Men Roy Shergold Chipping Campden
Black and White Photo of a young Roy Shergold dancing solo at Chipping Campden date not given
Janet Westman
Bampton Parish Council Meeting - Fairground Owner will get bill for Street Cleaning
Newspaper Cutting - date unknown, -but obviously before the houses on Pembroke Place were built as it mentions the children's playing field in New Road. Discussion was the billing of the Fairground Owner Mr Thurston for cleaning the street after the fair. and renaming Bushey Row and New Inn Lane.
Parish Councillors were Maurice Clack and Francis Henly John Quick
Janet Westman