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Donkey Derby 2022

  • BCA - 2023.4037
  • Item
  • 2022

Programme and photographs of the 2022 Donkey Derby held in the Sandford Field August Bank Holiday This is organised by the SPAJERS and generates funds for the Senior Citizens of Bampton and Lew.
Local Companies sponsor the races and the donkeys are ridden by children There are also stalls selling local crafts and produce.

Janet Westman

Bampton Community Hub Archive Open Day

  • BCA - 2023.4028
  • Item
  • 9th July 2022

Flyer advertising the opening of the New Community Hub and inviting the village to the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. This was held on 9th July, 2022 at the newly refurbished Old Grammar School which is now the Bampton Community Centre and Bampton Library. Robin Shuckburgh welcomed a large audience of Bampton residents. There was free wine and a new exhibition of Birding in the Bush.
A copy of the Chairman's report from the AGM held on 26th October 2022 by Robin Shuckburgh the outgoing Chairman. Jennifer Dixon Clegg has taken over as the Chairman.

Janet Westman

Bampton and the Domesday Book

  • BCA - 2023.4027
  • Item
  • 2023

Transcription of the contents of the Domesday Book relating to BAmpton and the surrounding villages including:

  • Bampton
  • Bampton Deanery
  • Bampton (rex)
  • Eynesham
  • Bampton (Robert de Oilgi)
  • Welde [Weald]
  • Shifford (Bishop of Bayeux)
  • Brighthampton (Bishop of Lincoln)
  • Lew (Walter Giffard)
  • Lew
  • Brighthampton (William FitzOsbern, E of Hereford)

Nik Stanbridge

Kelly's Directory 1895

  • BCA - 2022.3968
  • Item
  • 1895

One page from Kelly's Directory 1985
Bampton Proper, Bampton Aston and Bampton Lew
lists people responsible for Cemetry.
Lighting
Police Station
Drainage
Grammar School
National School
Station Bar
Carriers

Janet Westman

Ploughing Match FFF&B 1980

  • BCA - 2022.3965
  • Item
  • 1988

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.

Janet Westman

Queen Elizabth II Jubilee Celebrations 2022

  • BCA - 2022.3963
  • Item
  • 2022

Advertisement detailing celebrations in the Village for the 70th Jubilee of the Queen. June 2nd - June 5th. Included the Shirt Race and Morris Dancing which usually took place on May Bank Holiday weekend. Organised by Parish Council

Janet Westman

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