Second short film by Roy Barratt showing Morris Dancers and flower garlands at Whitsun 1962 and 1963. Some participates in Shirt race can be named as Mikey Smith, Frank Hudson, Frank Purslow, Albert Radband and in the Flower Garlands some of the children can be named as Teresa Lock, Wendy Radband, Elaine Howell, Sylvia Barber, Philip Curtis, The cover photo shows the children's shirtrace starting from the Swan Pub in Buckland Road.
Terry Crowley, the father of Rosemary Linnet Sanguine, bought Thatched Cottage in the early 1960s and set about doing some research on the dwelling, which is one of the oldest in Bampton. This pdf documents his findings.
Various Solicitors' letters and land search certificates relating to sale of land at The Swan, Buckland Road from 1963 and 1986 those named: Timothy Tomlins The Swan. Monty Shayler Calais Farm, Mrs Sollis and Clinches Breweries the Swan. Bryan Stevens Limetree House
Photograph of Bampton Children enjoying a show or pantomime in the WI Hall (Village Hall) in 1963. The children are numbered in the second photo and named as follows:
These were the tickets for The Spajers' Christmas Draw. Notice the price of tickets - 6 pence . That would have been 6 old pennies , equivalent to just over 2 pence nowadays. Miss M Roberts, know to Bampton as Peggy Roberts, opened the first Bampton Hairdressers in her house, Fleur de-Lys. This was the left -hand red brick house , close to and opposite the War Memorial. She later moved the business to the shop , now the Pottery Shop, opposite the Morris Clown.
A copy of an Infant Welfare Card used in the 1960's supplied by Teresa Till. The Baby Clinic was held in the WI Hall once a fortnight, and the babies were weighed and checked over by Dr Bullen (Consulting Physician) and Nurse Childs, (District Nurse). The babies would have their injections. This was where the mother obtained their Formula Milk and Orange Juice, etc