Series of Photographs taken early 1980 featuring some of the machinery on display. The photos are described as follows: BA40FA~1 - Ploughing with teams of 3 bullocks, young boy leading the front bullock and a ploughman on the reins. Each team pulled a single furrow plough. BA2357~1 - Mr Fred Hornsby at the front of the combine. Fred worked for John Henly on Bampton Deanery farm and in later years for his son Roy. This picture approximately 1980. BA0C0D~1 - Detail of a traction engine. There would have been one at opposite sides of the field and the implement, such as a plough or potato drill, would be pulled from side to side by the steel hawser seen here under the engine. The engine provided the power to turn the cable drum to wind in the cable. Originally the engine would have been fired by solid fuel but many were later converted to run on oil. BABDA1~1 - Douglas Read, OBE born 1926 taking part in a ploughing match. Doug got his MBE several years after this picture was taken and it was for services to ploughing. He has was national ploughing match champion more than once and in later years was a judge for the High Cut class at the Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins and Burford Ploughing Match. (Known to many locals as the 3Fs and a B). BA4883~1 - The driver of a plough being drawn across the field by a traction engine at the Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins and Burford Ploughing match.
A PDF document of 9 pages detailing the sale of Calais Farm in 1984 by Moore, Allen and Innocent for Mr Bryan Stevens. About 185 acres freehold with vacant possession for sale by private treaty as a whole or in six lots
This Ordinance Survey map was produced in 1974 and covers the area from Hobbs buildings/Deanery Farm in the north, due east to Coal Pit Farm, south to Bampton centre, on south to Weald, east to Aston and south to the Radcot Cut and Great Brook and the Thames.
Ordnance Survey Plan SP3002-3102 dated 1971. Cowleaze Corner, Weald to Aston, north to Horse Shoe and showing the following places and buildings Ashtree Aulnoy Backhouse Farm Bournemead Brook Farm Brook House Buckland Road Caravan Park Cheyne Lane Clanfield Road College Farm House Corner Farm Cowleaze Corner Cricket Field Dunlaoghaire Fisher's Bridge Gate Cottage Glebe Cottage Glebe Farm Ham Court Ham Court Cottages Highmoor House Knapps Farm Lime Tree Cottages Mill Bridge Mill Green Orchard Cottage Primrose Cottages Rose Cottage Shill Brook Shrangi-la Spring Cottages St Frideswide Stable Cottage Sunny view Sunnyside Thatch Cottage The Bungalow The Lodge The Old Farmhouse Weald Farm Weald Farm Cottages Weald Manor Weald Manor Cottage Weald Manor Farm
