Tommy Gerring aged 99

Three men possibly on Home Guard duty including George Bishop on the right in WWII sitting on Mill Bridge
photo from Frank Hudson

Photographs showing Vera Elward demonstrating flower garlands. On May 23rd 2003 Vera Elward assisted by Midge Newman is showing the children in Bampton C of E Primary school how to prepare the flowers ready to make a flower garland and how to fasten them on to the hazel hoops that she's made. The flowers are in bundles of the same type with their flower heads level and the stems tied. Vera fastens them to the hoops in small bundles. The winner of the best garland in 2002 is showing Janet Newman, deputy head and the rest of the children the plaque she won last year for the best garland

Photographs of the Vesey room in 2003 when the Archive began to use it
This was how the Vesey room looked in 2003 which was the very early days of the Bampton Community Archive. The exhibition photographs appear to be to do with the SPAJERS

Molly Rose - Service of Thanksgiving- 2016

May 2021 issue 19 of The Lowdown featuring articles about The Bampton Opera and The SPAJERS, Bampton Bush Club, Liz Banham and Hasam Popor the kebab man.

Marjorie Inkster, 76 pages relating to her her wartime work in REME along with her sister Brenda and brother Frazer.
Book written by Marjorie, entitled Bow and Arrow War from FANY to Radar in World War II.
Brenda Inkster was born in 1917 and on leaving school spent some years in France and Germany. She studied at Heidelberg University and apparently eventually spoke German almost like a native.
Brenda joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (F.A.N.Y.) in 1940, driving ambulances and staff cars, but was soon absorbed into Intelligence at Chester, because of her knowledge of German. From there she went to Bletchley Park (having collected a commission on the way) She stayed there until nearly the end of the ear, ending up as a Junior Commander in B.O.A.R., ferreting-out ex-Nazis.

After a five-year art training in the post-war period, she was invited to work in the Ministry of Defence. Having suffered from cancer since the age of thirty, she eventually had to retire and go to live with her sister Marjorie. The sisters came together to live in Bampton, at Grove Cottage in 1963 She died, after marvellous medical care, in 1993.

March 2021 issue 17 of The Lowdown, sponsored by Rosebank Care Home. with articles about the renovation of The Old Grammar School and Local Historian Julie Ann Godson

Photograph of Lucy Shergold with her children , Roy & Ruth in Buckland Rd, in 1938

Sepia Photograph Lucy Winfield (later Shergold) before she married aged about 18