These photographs, all taken by Bob West at the Spring Bank Holiday day of Morris Dancing 2000. All but the last two are Tony Daniels' morris side, (now at 2020 under Craig Godwin). The next to last picture is of Sherbourne Morris and the last picture is Eynsham Morris, both guests of the local side.
The Sunday before Bank Holiday Monday the Morris sides in Bampton have their last practice. In these photos the Bampton Traditional Morris side can be seen in the garden of the Horse Shoe, their headquarters at the time. People include Reg Hall on fiddle, Joe Perry accordion, Jamie Wheeler accordion, dancers John Shuker, Ray Borrett, Tony Daniels, Craig Godwin, Jonny Shuker, Andrew Lloyd, David Townsend, Billy Main plus Francis Shergold with pint and white stick.
These are the young dancers in Francis Shergold's side 1980, the Bampton Traditional Morris Men. They include Keith Rouse, Jamie Wheeler and Craig Godwin.
May Bank Holiday 1986 the two visiting sides with Bampton Traditional Morris Men under squire Francis Shergold were Rumworth also called Manley Morris and South Downs. Most of these pictures are of Rumworth, the last two are South Downs.
This card was sent from Jan, Jasper and Andrew Walsh to Andrew West in 1986. Francis Shergold seen on the left, Terry Rouse centre the fool, Tony Daniels behind Terry. Jamie Wheeler playing the accordion.
The Beam was produced 3 and sometimes 4 times a year. This edition from April 1992 included the following topics and advertisers.
A decade of change in Bampton: An appraisal Low Cost Homes latest Annual Shirt Race The Deanery: Restoration & Exploration Lime Trees in Broad Street Parish News Speeding Traffic Traffic Calming Parish Council Minutes McKenie Brown - Electrical Plumbing Bampton Fax Bureau Stephen Hailes - Plumbing MH Thomas - Building, Landscape Gardening and Fencing Contractor Home Made Labrador - Printing R Boland & Sons - Fresh fruit & vegetables J Temple - Hardware, DIY, Fancy Goods and Toys Bampton Driving School The Bush Club: Plans for the future Easter Services A New Sunday School Wanted: Singers for Church Choir The Gardening Column CBL Electric Vehicles Ltd Bampton Village Hall Bampton Youth Centre Bampton Environmental Watch Group Bampton WI The MS Society The Bampton Bush Club Bampton Swimming Pool Appeal Bampton Brownies Low Cost Housing Supplement: From Appraisal to Action Ridge & Partners - Chartered Surveyors Coleman Hicks Partnership - Architects Fisher & Townsend (Contractors) Ltd - Building Contractors New Playground Site map of Bampton Site plan for low-cost housing scheme Hedge Your Bets - Environment Appraisal Questionnaire Oxford College of Further Education Bampton Horticultural Society The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal Bampton Pumpkin Club Bampton Wives Club SPAJERS Bampton Pre-school Playgroup Bampton Drama Group Arts - West Oxfordshire Arts Association Charles McCord Mussett Junior Beam Crossword R Cooper - Builders The Talbot Hotel Curtain Choice Andrew Bowman - Thatcher Health Matters - Welbeing J Godfrey & Son - Funeral Directors Martin Drew - Chiropodist Medical Matters Oxfordshire Community Care Plan 1992/93 Painless Surgical Operations at Bampton Centre for Complementary Medicine Happy Memories - Girl Guides A Fisket-a-Tasket - Flower Design A Simmonds - Baker E Taylor - Funeral Directors Grey Gables Garage N Woodley Building Maintenance Witney Grass Cutting John King - Heating Engineer The Romany Inn Bampton Directory
The map is pre Inclosure and covers Clanfield, Bampton, Aston and Yelford. The note with the Yelford map says it was from a map of 1624/5. A note at the right side of the page suggests all these details were pulled together from various sources in 1833 which is post Inclosure, which for the Bampton area was 1821. I can't work out what maps were used for the non-Yelford map but it says HHH is Aston 1771.
This map of 1921 covers the area from Plantation south to Cowleaze Corner and east as far as the Elephant and Castle.
What was a watercourse off the Highmoor Brook to land with The Deanery can be clearly seen and was used for fish farming.
Cobb House is the only vicarage by now, the other two houses of the three-portion being in private hands, one Churchgate house the other now called Kilmore House.
Glebelands houses were not yet built, they didn't come until the 1960s.
The lake with Weald Manor House to its left used to freeze over and the owners of the Manor House used to invite locals to skate on it. Mr & Mrs Colvile lent the field to the west of the lake to the local football club but as it wasn't large enough for the side to play in a certain league, they had to find a new home and for a while used a field at the east end of New Road.
This map was produce by Morre, Allan and Innocent to accompany the sale for 5 residential and agricultural properties May 14th 1962. They are all east and south east of Bampton's main residential area. Lot 1 is Meadow Farm Lot 2 is to the north of the Aston road and include Ampney Lodge Lot 3 is a strip with Calais farm Lot 4 is a field approximately where Bampton Garden Centre is today Love 5 is a group of fields to the south of the Great Brook