May Queen, Tina Sarahs turning into Church View in 1965
- BCA - 2019.1941
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The procession including the May Queen, Tina Sarahs and her attendants turning into Church View in 1965
Bampton Community Archive
May Queen, Tina Sarahs turning into Church View in 1965
The procession including the May Queen, Tina Sarahs and her attendants turning into Church View in 1965
Bampton Community Archive
Peter Davis and his exhibition in the Old Grammar School about Witney Airfield 2015
Witney Gazette June 24th 2015.
Peter Davis from Church Street put on a detailed and very interesting exhibition for the Bampton Community Archive in the Old Grammar School, Church Close about the Witney Airfield. The only suggestion of an airfield in the area now is in the names of three local roads, De Havilland Way, Range Road and Richard Jones Road.
Damaged Spitfires and Hurricanes aircraft damaged during WWII were serviced here. The airfield was important in both WWI and WWII. It opened in 1918 and closed in 1951.
The site was used as an RAF training unit, a base for tennis, horse racing and motorcycle speedway as well as for Witney and Oxford Aero Club and Witney Aeronautical College.
The catalogue of this exhibition, full of really interesting photos of the airfield is still on sale in the Vesey room.
Bampton Community Archive
John Jaques from Bampton has been made chairman of the Under 30s Farmers' Club
Witney Gazette March 11th 2015 notes that John Jaques from Bampton has been made chairman of the Under 30s Farmers' Club.
Bampton Community Archive
The Witney Gazette March 11th 2015 mentioned photographer Barry Dale and potter Crabby Taylor who held their show 'Secrets Disclosed' in the West Ox Arts Gallery upstairs in the Town Hall.
Bampton Community Archive
Lloyd Hughes Owens encouraged some of his past pupils who had left school to form the 'Old Bamptonians hockey team.
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Football team late 1950s
This picture was taken in the late 1950s or very early 1960s. The names of the people are all printed on the photograph and include
Tony Allam
John Marston
Vernon Cannons
Ted Harding
Geoff Wilson
Jim Sweetingham
Jim Barton
George Dafter
Chris Timms
Fred Mildenhall
Pete Allam
Harry Green
Cyril Smith
Micky Brooks, George Dafter’s nephew
Bampton Community Archive
Coach outing from Bampton c1933
This was a coach out from Bampton with many members of the Green family, all named on the photograph
Bampton Community Archive
W Payne & Son, Great Western Railway Co Agents, Bampton and Lechlade.
W Payne & Son, Great Western Railway Co Agents, Bampton and Lechlade. Cab & Omnibus Proprietors, horses, brakes, carriages etc for hire. Cartage contractors and furniture removers. Chief office The Hill, Witney Oxon. Railway depots Bampton, Chipping Norton and Lechlade. The remains of one of their ads in black lettering can be seen on the side of their house which was Castle View in Bridge Street.
This advert is in the 1911 Kelly's Trade Directory
Bampton Community Archive
'Father and Dart' in 1890. Picture donated by RHC Davies. The name of 'Father' is not known
Bampton Community Archive
This newspaper cutting from the Oxford Mail of 1955 covers the 3rd Great Shirt Race to be held in Bampton, the first one being part of the celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
Bampton Community Archive