View of Church Street including St. Marys , the Old Grammar School, (Vesey Rooms), Landells supplied by Andrew Hilditch in 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.

Images of Ampney Orchard in 1988

Views around Bampton supplied by Andrew Hilditch taken in 1988 showing Aston Road, Broad Street, Mercury Close, Cheapside Church Street., Bushey Road, Pococks Close

Image of young girl on seesaw in the Playing Field. New Road.
View shows houses in Bushey Row.
Adjacent to Fire Station, Field has been built over with Pembroke Close

Images of Bridge Street in 1988 supplied by Andrew Hilditch

Two photos showing the Easter Bonnet Competition 1988 supplied by Andrew Hilditch
Taking place in front of The Jubilee Inn an the War Memorial

Epitome of Title relating to the sale of part of Calais Farm to M E Shaylor by Mr Stevens of Limetree House in 1986
Consisting of Copies of the following documents
1) Conveyance between Lorna Weston Ogilvie. Gordon Ogilvie. Margaret Deneke , Bryan Norman Stevens & June Doreen Stevens
2) Deed of Grant Sd. B.N. & J.D. Stevens and The Secretary of State for Defence
3) Deed of Partition Sd. B.N. Stevens & J.D. Stevens
4) Legal Charge Sd. B.N. Stevens Williams & Glyn's Bank Ltd.
5) Legal Charge H.M. Ld. Chgs. V 0902265
6) Statutory Declaration by Sd. B.N. Stevens
7) Conveyance Sd. B.N. Stevens, Monty Edwin Shayler & Susan Mary Shayler
8) Sd. M.E. & S.M. Shayler Amsterdam-Rotterdam Bank N.V.

This is the Bampton Directory for 1986.AdvertisersM & J Whallery, carpets and vinylsStuart Ranson, nurserymanR Shayler & Son, builderChristine Paula, dress designer

A poster page from the 1985 exhibition of 350 years of Bampton, which was
really to celebrate 350 of the old grammar school in Church View. The poster
shows Francis Shergold's Morris side dancing in the Deanery garden with St
Mary's in the background. The picture was taken in 1956