Bampton Community Archive

Sale brochure: Meadow farm; Ampney Lodge; Bungalow; Pasture field; Aston Meadows. June 14th 1962

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1962

Sale brochure: Meadow farm; Ampney Lodge; Bungalow; Pasture field; Aston Meadows. June 14th 1962

Nik Stanbridge

Colin Rouse experiments with old-style thrashing at Hobbs buildings

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1985

Colin Rouse experiments with old-style thrashing at Hobbs buildings with a Ransomes thresher, 1985

Nik Stanbridge

Harry Pocock with his thrashing machine and tractor in 1958

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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.

Nik Stanbridge