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:
The Bampton Festival took place in 1985 between 13th July and 20th July. An exhibition of photographs and artefacts, including the skeleton which had been dug up at Beam Cottage, was staged at the Old School; an archaeological exhibition in the Town Hall; at Kilmore House an exhibition showing 350 years of needle and thread. During the week, Bampton enjoyed visiting Folk Singers; a once-in-a-lifetime event when all three Bampton Morris Dance Teams performed at the same venue; a demonstration of lace making together with various other talks and events.
In the spring of 2011 Nik Stanbridge put on an exhibition for the Bampton Community Archive of Pill Boxes in this area during WWII. Simon Rae wrote a play about life revolving around one pill box and it was given its first airing in the Village Hall to coincide with the exhibition. It was a delightful play and the scenery was excellent. The play called The Pill Box got its first showing in Bampton Village Hall on Wednesday May 25th 2011 and it coincided with an Exhibition put on by Mark MacArthur-Christie on pillboxes in Oxfordshire. It was an excellent play with wonderful staging produced by Mike Wareham. The picture is of an admission ticket for the play and the program.
Women's section British Legion . Photograph of ladies of the British Legion in 1950 together with photographs of crowning of the May queen children parties, carnivals and fetes organised by them And newspaper cuttings reporting on the events, also wedding and funeral announcements some dated 1968 and 1972
The purpose of the Bampton Festival was to celebrate the 350th anniversary of The Old Grammar School. The newspaper article describes the history of the building. The festival was a village-wide celebration which ran fro 13th July to 20th July 1985. The festival included concerts, talks, old photographs, a garden contest, morris dancing and music.
