This teacher is Mr Evans who taught at Bampton School and the picture was taken about 1959.Janet Westman said "Mr Evans was my favourite teacher. He was so young and handsome!, he encouraged me to draw, and would take us on cycle rides

This charming little cottage used to be called Pedlar's Patch and today is called Sweet Briar. The gate is next to Emmies on Bridge Street and the house is set back from the road, behind other cottages.

This pylon was the framework that once held a windmill on White Owl farm. The farm belonged to Bert and Ted Wilkins.

This newspaper cutting talks about the financial problems of the Morgan Brothers. They own and rent much land in Sharney which is close to the Thames SE of Weald, so there is local concern about the farming of their fields.

Oxford Touring Company went on tour with a new family show called 'Noah's Ark' with sets that could be lifted easily out of cars and vans and great use was made of puppets to bring the show to life.

West Ox Arts was looking for a new chairman after the death of Gerry Glaister who had been chairman for 3 years. The present exhibition of members' work to the end of the month includes African-style acrylics by artist Michelle Buh-Nielsen.

As part of the exhibition on A History of Trade in Bampton, Mavis Newing kindly supplied this historical account of Sherbourne houses, 1 and 2 in Bridge Street

A Millennium Mosaic was unveiled in Bampton by the Town Hall by Tony Walker of WODC. The mosaic was created by Rosalind Wates and sculptor Alec Peever made a plaque to commemorate the occasion.

Ralph Norman, seen on the left, organised the exhibition, 'Expanding The Girths' as part of the first ever international ply-split braiding convention. Also in the picture are Linda Hendrickson and Peter Collingwood.

Gary Woodley, who has illustrated books for Molly Harris and Andrew Forkner held an exhibition of their work in the Town Hall in February 2000