Black and White Photo taken at the Deanery in 1977
Roy Shergold fool, Frank Daniels, Terry Rouse, Dave Rose, Jasper Walsh, Shaun Mullis, Bob Allinson

Dancing outside the Talbot. Dave Rose, 1974

Black and white photo taken in 1973 of Frank Daniels, in Market Square

Dancers at Church Gate House 1973

Bampton Traditional Morris. Tony Allam in 1973.

Bampton Traditional Morris. Frank Daniels older brother of Bill in 1973. outside Town Hall

Black and white photo of Morris dancers taken in 1970 in Deanery Gardens
Left to right, on extreme left Roy Shergold fool, Bill Daniels, centre
of picture Frank Daniels, Terry Rouse, Dave Rose’s face just seen on
the right.

B/W Photo of Morris Dancers Dancing in the grounds of the Deanery in 1975. A young Tony Daniels nearest the camera.

Black and white photo of Morris dancers taken in 1968 in Ireland

Bertie Clark. Fiddle rear Harry Hampton (fool) Peter Alum, George Hunt, Bobby Wells cake
Bertie (1877.-1958) was another Bampton Morris fiddler, but unlike Wells
was not born into the tradition. He was brought up in London, where he worked at a railway depot
in Camden Town. He had some violin lessons, and played in the railway staff orchestra. Sometime
before the Great War he moved to Carterton, the village next to Bampton. When in 1926 Jinky Wells
had a falling-out with his Morris side, and went off to form his own, Bertie Clark was invited to be
fiddler for the original Bampton Morris; he initially learned the tunes from Cecil Sharp’s published
manuscripts (presumably relations with Wells were such that he wasn’t going to teach them to
Bertie himself!) Recordings of his playing made in 1958 appear on Rig-a-jig jig; dance music of the
south of England from Topic Records’ "Voice of the People" collection. A listen to his playing is very
instructive. At the time he would have been 81 years old, was quite likely well out of practice and
possibly arthritic.