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William Nathan 'Jingy' Wells playing the fiddle in 1923

  • BCA - 2019.1847
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  • 1923

William Nathan 'Jingy' Wells danced, fooled and played the fiddle for Bampton Morris from the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.
In this picture he is seen with his fiddle.
The hat, waistcoat, trousers and socks (odd socks) are still cared for by the Bampton Traditional Morris Men.

Bampton Community Archive

Billy Dewe Morris Dancer

  • BCA - 2023.4209
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  • 1920s?

Photo of Billy Dewe with another Morris Dancer possibly standing outside a cottage in Lavender Square

Janet Westman

Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1914

  • BCA - 2023.4174
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  • 1914

Article about Morris Dancing of Bampton in the Bush from the Reading Standard 25th July 2014?. edited from Article in Daily Chronicle September 1914, both copies attached

Janet Westman

Morris Dancing, possibly 1913

  • BCA - 2017.1128
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  • c1913

These photographs are very likely to have been taken in 1913. The fiddler dancing a jig to his own playing is William Nathan Wells, better known as Jingy.

Bampton Community Archive

Bampton Morris Dancers - A Chronology

  • BCA - 2023.4166
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  • 1790-1900

A Chronology of Performance in Bampton. itemising the events and names of the various dancers from 1790 through to the 1900's

Janet Westman

Morris Dancing in the Market Square 1897

  • BCA - 2021.2561
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  • 1897

This is one of the earliest photograph of the Bampton Morris Men taken in 1897, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year.
The dancers are
George Wells/Taylor
Thomas William Tanner
Joseph Rouse
Robert Dixey
George Dixey
James Dewe
Charles Henry Tanner, ragman
Henry Radband, sword carrier
William Nathan Wells, fool, known as Jingy
Richard Decimus Butler, musician

Bampton Community Archive

Two young boys in Morris clothing

  • BCA - 2022.3676
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  • early C20th

These two photographs were taken in the first half of the C20th. Sadly, I don't know their names but they look to be really enjoying themselves.

Janet Rouse

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