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Bampton with Lew church news sheet for June 1951
Bampton with Lew church news sheet for June 1951. Letter by Cyril C Kelway, vicarTopics include Church spring-cleaning; Confirmation; Guild of St Mary's; visiting preachers.From the registers, Holy Baptism of1. Geraldine Mary daughter of Herb...
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A program of entertainments on Coronation Day June 2nd 1953.
Bampton did much to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on June 2nd 1953. This is the program for the day in Bampton,
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This is a newspaper cutting from the Witney Gazette of March 14th 1991 to advertise a seminar on child care to be held in Oxford for working parents.
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1. Milk token book for Frederick James Gerring born June 26th 1951 at Sandford House
This is the milk ration book for Frederick Gerring, born June 26th 1951 and living with his parents Rose and Arthur Gerring at Sandford House, Church View.
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This is the Welfare Foods Service Entitlement Book for Frederick Gerring at Sandford House 1951-1955. Orange juice & vitamins. His date of birth on the front cover is June 26th 1951. It was for Orange Juice and Cod Liver Oil.
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Clothing Ration book for Rose F Sollis 1947-1948 at The Swan Inn, Buckland Road
This is the clothes ration book for Rose F Sollis who lived at The Swan Inn in Buckland Road.The book had to be handed to the shopkeeper for him or her to take out the appropriate coupon; it was illegal for a shopkeeper to accept loose coupons. ...
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Ration book for Rose Gerring 1953-1954
Rationing continued long after the end of WWII. As some items became more plentiful they were taken off ration but as this book belonging to Rose Gerring shows, meat, fats, cheese, bacon and sugar were still on ration in 1953-54.The supplier of e...
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Ration book post WWII for Frederick Arthur Gerring
Long after the end of WWII there was food rationing. As certain items became a little more plentiful they were removed from rationing but as late as 1954 some items were still on ration.This is a ration book, what is left of it, that belonged to ...
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St Mary's choir boys on an outing to Southsea in 1947
In 1947 no girls were allowed in the choir at St Mary's which was quite normal in most churches at that time. In the summer of 1947 these 9 choirboys were taken on an outing to Southsea as a treat. Back row L-R Bill Daniels, Philip Addison,...
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Letters to Rose Sollis from Arthur Gerring who was in India
These two letters were written to Rose Sollis by Arthur Gerring who was in the army in India during WWII. They married when Arthur came home after demob.The writing is beautiful, both content and visually.
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These are 4 letters from a Mrs Roberts in Wantage to Mrs Sollis at The Swan Inn in Buckland Road. It looks as if Mrs Sollis has shown interest in buying a property from Mrs Roberts. The final letter tells Mrs Sollis the cottage has been sold to ...
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In 1963 Mrs Sollis decided she would sell The Swan Inn in Buckland Road. She had been a widow for several years and had happily met and fallen in love with Alec Townsend of Ash Tree farm in Weald Street. They were to marry and she moved to the f...
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Letter dated July 31st 1963 from Thornton Baker & Co chartered accountants to Mrs Sollis at The Swan Inn, Buckland Rd enclosing a "fair copy of your accounts to the 4th April, 1963, the date you ceased trading.
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Letter of thanks for wedding gift from Norman & Meryl to Rose Gerring
Meryl Hobbs taught in Bampton almost all her life and it was after she retired that she met and married Norman. This letter is from them to Rose Gerring thanking her for their wedding gift which would appear to be money to spend on anything they ...
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Letters showing Mrs Bunce trying to take over the license of The Swan Inn, Buckland Road 1932
1. Letter dated August 31st 1932, from Clinch & Co Ltd Eagle Brewery Witney to Mrs Bunce at The Swan Inn, Buckland Road. They request forms to be signed and posted back by return along with her magistrate's certificate of licence and sh...
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Mr & Mrs Harry Sollis from The Swan Inn, Buckland Road
Mr & Mrs Harry Sollis owned and ran the Swan Inn in Buckland road for many years. In the last few years, Mrs Sollis ran it as a widow. Emmie Papworth, nee Bishop was a relative and adored Mrs Sollis; Emmie is seen with here in two of these p...
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Accounts for The Swan Inn, Buckland Road, year ending March 31st 1951
Mr & Mrs Sollis owned and ran the Swan Inn, in Buckland Road. These are the accounts and a covering letter from their accountant, Thornton & Thornton in Witney and the accounts themselves for year ending March 31st 1951.You will gather fr...
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The map shows the area from the allotments north of Bampton down through the centre of Bampton to Primrose Cottages and East as far as the first cottages on the western side of Aston.It is interesting that there are references to Council Houses al...
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Map of Bampton 1989, revised 1990
This map shows Bampton at 1989 with revisions done in 1990. It includes Weald. It shows the properties and the extent of the gardens.
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This map shows the Bampton Estates at 1789. This is before the fields were enclosed and the names of the people who farmed the strips or the name of the field area are on the map. The Quies fields are each side of the Bampton to Brize Norton roa...
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Map of Bampton at the time of the Inclosure Act 1821
One of these maps shows the names of the fields and the waterways, important for growing and stocking fish are very clear, the second one is a photograph from a page in the Inclosure document held at St Lukes in Oxford and this shows the propertie...
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Bampton - Country Life magazine July 26th 1946
This is the 2nd of two articles in successive issues of Country Life magazine July 1946. There are pictures of the Grammar School which now houses the library and the exhibition space called the Vesey room used by Bampton Community Archive and We...
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Bampton - Country Life magazine July 19th 1946
This is the first of two articles in successive weeks in Country Life magazine July 1946. This article talks about the architecture of Bampton with pictures of the Market Place, the early Victorian Town Hall, Morris Dancing, Lime Tree house, Thom...
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It was not uncommon for the firemen to take one of their appliances to fetes. The firemen and women were keen to explain what was on the appliance and in particular to explain to children. In this picture left to right areRay Green, John Wixey, ...
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Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp by the W.I. Drama Group
The WI Drama group put on at least one excellent play or pantomime each year for several years under the guidance of Hilda Pickard. This is Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp. The cast was1. Lynne Rouse2. Carol Hampton3. Sandra Foster4. Sylvia Barne...
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The Beam: April 1990 vol. 5 No1
THE BEAM APRIL 1990. VOLUME 5 NO1. THE TOPICS COVERED :-Morris dancing on Spring Bank Holiday MondayPrefabs built after WWII originally called Portel HousesParish council history and coming elections. The first meeting of Bampton’s Parish ...
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Jason Seacole hands the 6 aside Jubilee Cup to West Witney
Jason Seacole is handing the Jubilee Cup to Liam Burnside of West Witney after they won the Bampton 6-aside tournament. In the background is Michael Irvin who did much along with Ken East to help the boys' football sides in Bampton. Ken was...
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John Knight dancing in Bampton
John Knight comes from a family of Bampton dancers of the Morris in Bampton. Behind him in this picture just holding hankies is Roy Dommitt who worked at the High Down Rocket Test Site on the Isle of Wight. He was one of the most senior engineer...
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Early twentieth century cricket team
There are many interesting aspects to this picture. There are three members of the Green family in the team, Frederick, Jim and Henry. Ten are in whites, Tim Fox looks as if he is an umpire but the clothing on the Talbot Licensee Mr Norman gives...
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Connected families - Tanner, Flux, Poole, Butler, Elward, Newman
These are really good, old photographs showing members of the Tanner, Flux, Poole, Butler and Elward families from around 1900 through the twentieth century. The family group photograph of 'Buscot' Tanner shows him with his sons in unif...
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Closure of the GWR Oxford via Witney to Fairford railway line
On June 16th 1962 the last train from Witney to Fairford passed through Bampton and Brize Norton station. The newspaper cuttings give a good history of this railway line. In Bampton, there used to be a railway timetable on the wall next to the L...
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The debt Bampton Morris owes to Jingy Wells, by Frank Purslow
Frank Purslow had previous sent a letter to the Witney Gazette that was far from complimentary about Jingy Wells and it made many Bamptonians cross. He was challenged about it by Bobby Wells, Jingy's son and this letter to the Gazette follow...
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Morris Dancing 1993, Francis Shergold's side and a visiting side
Bank Holiday Monday 1997. Francis Shergold's Traditional Morris men, a visiting side and Alec Wixey's side.
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Sidmouth Festival August 1991.Bampton Bank Holiday 1992.KC playing Queen Emmas.Eynsham 1992
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May Bank Holiday weekend of dancing 1986
May Bank Holiday weekend. Francis Shergold's Bampton Traditional Morris Men dancing on the Monday and Alec Wixey's Bampton Morris Men practising on the Sunday.
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Bank Holiday Monday dancing 1986 (2)
Morris dancing in Bampton 1986. Alec Wixey's side rehearsing on the Sunday and Francis Shergold's side dancing on the Monday.
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Bank Holiday Monday Morris Dancing 1986
Bank Holiday Monday Morris dancing in Bampton 1986.Francis Shergold's Traditional Bampton Morris Men and Alec Wixey's Bampton Morris Men
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Kirtlington Lamb Ale 1992. Gosport Festival
Kirtlington Lamb Ale 1992. Gosport Festival
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June 1993, Morris dancing in Bampotn
Morris Dancing June 1993
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Hemmings May 1st & 6th. Alec Wixey's side May 9th. 1993
Hemmings May 1st & 6th.Alec Wixey's side May 9th. 1993
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Downs Festival May 11th 1990 & Alec Wixey's side Sunday before Bank Holiday Monday
Downs Festival May 11th 1990 & Alec Wixey's side the Sunday before Bank Holiday Monday practising at the Elephant & Castle
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Bank Holiday Monday 1993 Morris dancing
Francis Shergold's side the Bampton Traditional Morris men and Alec Wixey's Bampton Morris Men dancing Bank Holiday Monday in 1993.
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Morris dancing Bank Holiday Monday 1991
Bank Holiday Monday Morris dancing in Bampton. Francis Shergold's Bampton Traditional Morris Men and Arnold Woodley's side
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Morris Dancing Bank Holiday Monday 1986, Shergold, Wixey & Woodley sides
Arnold Woodley, Alec Wixey and Francis Shergold's Morris Men dancing on May Bank Holiday Monday 1986
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Bank Holiday weekend final practices 1986
These pictures are of the Bampton Traditional Morris Men and the Bampton Morris Men happily practising together during the Bank Holiday weekend. Squires Francis Shergold and Alec Wixey.
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Francis Shergold's Bampton Traditional Morris Men & Alec Wixey's Bampton Morris Men, 1985
Francis Shergold's Bampton Traditional Morris Men and Alec Wixey's Bampton Morris Men dancing on May Bank Holiday 1985
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Abingdon Mayor Making June 19th 1993
Abingdon Mayor Making, June 19th 1993
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Alec Wixey's Bampton Morris Men dancing in Stow-on-The-Wold May 11th 1986
Alec Wixey's side, the Bampton Morris Men, dancing in Stow-on-The-Wold May 11th 1986
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Arnold Woodley's side August 1st 1986 & Morris Aid 1986
Arnold Woodley's side dancing in Woodstock and for Morris Aid, both in 1986
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Alec Wixey's side dancing in Stow 1986
This is Alec Wixey's side, the Bampton Morris Men dancing in Stow in 1986
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Steam engines stop in Bampton November 4th 2006
On a lovely sunny November day in 2006 a group of Steam Engine enthusiasts stopped off in Bampton, Bridge Street to partake of some refreshment.In 2019 John Wharton told me ..."The steam engines were taking part in the Remembrance Road Run or...
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'Chain Reaction' cycle path rally at Tadpole Bridge. 2002.
In 2002 a group of people calling themselves 'Chain Reaction' did all they could to raise sufficient money to have a safe cycle path created from Bampton to Tadpole Bridge, but sadly they were not able to achieve their ambition. Two yea...
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Bo Jangles, Bampton Castle Cars & Marks Kitchen in 2003
This picture was taken in 2003. Down the side of Rosemary Lane, farthest away is Bo Jangles the hairdresser then coming towards the camera is the office for Bampton Castle Cars and the green sign board of Mark's Kitchen can just be seen.
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A bus shelter created opposite Duttons in Bridge Street
This bus shelter was created about 2003. Only if the rain was blowing from behind did it give any shelter. Drivers are very inconsiderate blocking the bus stop for the buses. It was in use for only a few years when the route was changed and the...
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Sam Bennett and a young Emily Bishop
Sam Bennett and young Emily Bishop, later known to all as Mrs Emmie Papworth who was a post mistress and later ran the papershop in Bridge Street.Sam helped Bampton Morris with his fiddle playing from 1926 until the 1939. In the last few years, ...
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William Nathan 'Jingy' Wells, playing his fiddle and a close look at his clothes
Jingy Wells, real name William Nathan Wells danced for many years and played the fiddle for even more. His first fiddle he made from a large corned beef tin for a sound box and a broom handle. He was completely self taught. After an eye infecti...
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Descendants of James Charles Green b.1838
This is the family tree of James Charles Green b.1838.Name in the family tree.Ashfield Bartlett Beckley CambrayClack Cleaver Clements ColeyCurran ...
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The Primrose League Diploma of Association for James Green. March 30th
This is the Primrose League Diploma of Association for the membership of James Green, March 30th 1886.The Primrose League was established in 1883 by Lord Randolph Churchill and John Gorst in the wake of the Conservative Party's loss to Gladst...
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These photograph are of Bill Daniels as a 12 year old boy in the Mummers and as an adult in military uniform and in the Shirt Race. There are also pictures of his father Ernie Daniels and his mother. In the photograph of the mummers you can also...
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'Rocky' Spring Bank Holiday Monday 1991
Ernie 'Rocky' Hunt and Chad Trueman in the background, Spring Bank Holiday Monday 1991. Rocky was known as Dicky to all his family. When Ernie died, his birth certificate showed his real name was Ernest Bishop.
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Wedding of Olive Peacock and James McCabe
This is the wedding of Olive Peacock and James McCabe.Their son Andrew told me:-"From the left is my aunt Zita Donnelly who flew over for the wedding. (To the USA) I think that’s Jenny Jenkin (Quick) next to her. Next to her, according to ...
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Mick & Doris Cleaver given award by Cancer Research UK 2014
Michael and Doris Cleaver received an award from Cancer Research UK in 2014 for their simply amazing work in raising funds for this charity for a combined 60 years of volunteering.They were given an honorary fellowship at the Cancer Research UK Fl...
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Beam Cottage; the gardens run as an organic market garden by Dor Thomson 1950s
"Beam Cottage was the site of the medieval chapel of St. Andrew 'of Beme', so called by 1317; an early 12th-century shaft base was found built into the cottage, and burials around it produced radiocarbon dates from the 11th century ...
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Two pictures both taken in Home Farm farmyard, late 1940s. The farm house is on the High Street
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William Nathan 'Jingy' Wells playing the fiddle in 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 sock...
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This picture of a school class was taken at the National School in Church View about 1946. The named children includeFred BishopFred BrooksBill DanielsBrian SadlerBob HuntDennis GreenBrian BarnetIvy BirdAmelia WrightDiane SadlerJacqueline Nichols...
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Sale of Sundown Cottage - was through gate to Sandford
Sundown Cottage was a little cottage just inside the grounds to the right of the gate going into Sandford, down the lane from the Grammar School. When it was more or less derelict it was bought by Molly and Bernard Rose and demolished. You can s...
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Sandford Cottage garden in 1993
Sandford Cottage is a little cottage on the south side of Sandford Field. Originally, it was two tiny cottages. There is a well in the garden which was shared with the house next door. When these pictures were taken it was the home of Josephine...
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Cote Chapel needs £2,000 - article from 1953
This is an article from the Oxford Time August 28th 1953. It explains immediate repair is needed to the roof and ceiling of this delightful little church which was built in 1661.
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The house called Sandford & letters to Mr & Mrs Bernard & Molly Rose
The house now called 'Sandford' was bought for Mr & Mrs Bernard and Molly Rose by Molly's brother of Marshall's Flying School Limited. Bernard had not long been demobbed and he had been a POW in Stendal, Germany. Molly wa...
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Exhibition on Cricket in Bampton, January and February 2019
Anna Pitt put on a wonderful exhibition on the history of cricket in Bampton which ran January and February 2019. This is a double page spread about the exhibition from the Witney Gazette.
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Godfrey & Jack Horne as children, parents May & Ted, very early C20th
May & Ted Horne with their sons Godfrey and Jack, pre 1914.Four members of the Horne family fought in WWI,A. HorneD. HorneJ. Horneand E. Horne who was killed.
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Sandford Field and the spire of Saint Mary The Virgin church, c1930
Sandford field looking north, circa 1930.The hedge has not grown up to hide 'Sandfords' (the house), and the area there contains two cottages, not just one large house.Field Cottage is the house on the right.The clearly defined path was ...
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Mrs White in her doorway, Sandford Cottage.
Sandfords Cottage early 20th century with a well in the lower left corner of the picture. The well was shared by the neighbouring cottage which is Brook Cottage. There was a little footpath between the two cottages where, in the 1950s Mr Bert Wh...
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Sandfords in 1946 and again in 1954
Two photographs of Sandfords, one taken in 1946 and again in 1954 after the extension was added. The family living there was was Mr & Mr Bernard and Molly Rose and their children Nigel, Gregory (then named Peter) and Graham. The little girl ...
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This is George Dafter who was one of our local postmen for nearly 30 years. He was loved by all who came into contact with him and he had a great sense of humour.Jamie Wheeler said "My Dad always told a funny story about George. Some people...
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Sale brochure for The Lew Estate September 23rd 1914
This is the sale brochure for The Lew Estate for sale on Wednesday September 23rd 1914. Listed as a compact Freehold Residential and Sporting Property of 614 acres 0 rods and 8 poles.Knight, Frank & Rutley were the auctioneers to be held at t...
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Sales brochure for the outlying portions of the Lew Estate Sept 27th 1917
By the direction of Mrs Upton, the particulars of the outlying portions of the Lew Estate including capital grazing and corn growing land extending about 365.5 acres with a rent roll per year of £397 4s 3d.Messrs Knight, Frank and Rutley auctionee...
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Sales brochure for The Deanery July 29th 1949
This is the sales brochure for The Deanery, to be auctioned on Friday July 29th 1949. A note saying 'understood no bid' has been pencilled in but at some point in 1949 Marjorie Pollard bought it.Along with the main house which was partl...
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The sales brochure is forMeadow Farm situated close to the river Thames at Tadpole Bridge about 1 1/2 miles south of Bampton lying on either side of Buckland Road - about 380 acres;Ampney Lodge which is the last house on the east end of High Stree...
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Sale brochure for Calais farm January 15th 1959
This is the sales brochure for Calais Farm, sold January 15th 1959 to Bryan Stevens who lived at Lime Tree House in High Street. The farm comprised a modernised farmhouse, farm buildings with modern cowshed, very useful arable and pasture land ex...
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Sale catalogue Lower Haddon farm sale March 11th 1949
A sales brochure for Lower Haddon farm Friday March 11th 1949. It includes the main farmhouse, three cottages and about 380 acres with approximately 48 acres sold subject Air Ministry Requisitioning. This farm is on the south side of what was th...
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One sale page for The Windmill, Station Road
It is a pity there is no date on this sales page for The Windmill on Station Road, but as the telephone number has just 4 digits I think it is about 1980.
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Sale brochure for The Grange, High St. Wednesday April 16th 1930
Sales brochure for The Grange, High Street by Messrs E.J. Brooks & Son on Wednesday April 16th 1930 by order of the executors. Looking at the pencil notes written in the brochure, the sale was withdrawn probably because it failed to reach the ...
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Sale brochure for Weald Farm. Thursday May 13th 1943
The sales brochure for the sale of Weald Farm, Thursday May 13th 1943. It was being sold because farmer Mr W.J. Butt had died and it was bought by George Collins for£9,500.George had come up from Somerset to see a friend who farmed near-by and we...
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Sale of University Farm, Lew June 25th 1959
University Farm was sold freehold by Nuffield College, Oxford on Thursday June 25th 1959 and was bought by Reginald John Rouse of Backhouse Farm for £19,450. The brochure gives all the details of the farm and there is a map showing the fields and...
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This is the sales brochure put out by Messrs Habgood & Mammatt of Witney for the sale of Garage Premises with commodious house, lock-ups, full equipment and garage proprietor's business in Cheapside, Bampton. It was being sold by Mr Appl...
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Sale brochure for 'The Grey House' (Grayshott House), High St. June 21st 1956
This sales brochure put out by Habgood & Mammatt of Witney was for the sale of 'The Grey House' - now called Grayshott House in Bampton High Street along with 'The Laurels' in Witney and 'Ivydene' in Delly End, H...
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Sales brochure for 'Little Weald' June 15th 1962 by Mallam, Payne & Dorn
This is the sales brochure for 'Little Weald' which is in Weald Street. The sale was conducted by Mallam, Payne and Dorn on Friday June 15th 1962 in the Central Rooms, 24 St Michael's Street, Oxford.
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Show program and schedule, Bampton Horticultural Soc 1980
This is the Show guide produced by the Bampton Horticultural Society for their Flower and Produce Show August 9th 1980 and their Autumn Show October 4th 1980. Apart from seeing all the classes that can be entered, it is also interesting to see wh...
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December 2003 in various small gardens
These pictures were taken in various gardens around Bampton in December 2003. They include Bowling Green Close, one including a picture of Bob Curtis, Bushey Row, Primrose Cottages, Colvile Close, New Road, work in progress in the Market Square a...
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Bill Daniels aged 12. Bill grew up to become a Morris Dancer with the Bampton Traditional Morris Dancers and for many years, from the age of 12 he was a member of the Mummers when they were reformed in 1946. The newly reformed Mummers in 1946 wer...
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Downton Abbey the film, outside scenes being filmed in Bampton Sept 19th 2018
The film of Downton Abbey was being created in 2018 and the outside scenes by the church and Churchgate House, the home of the fictional Isobel Crawley.Filming took place in Bampton September 19th 2018.
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Confirmation Downton Abbey the film will be made
This small item in the Witney Gazette of July 18th 2018 confirms that a film of Downton Abbey is to be made. This is good news for Bampton because most of the outside scenes are filmed here, around and sometimes in the church and hopefully, it wi...
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This picture is of Emmies, the newsagents in Bridge Street, seen in 1963.How sad that bicycles could not be left outside like this today. They all appear to be ladies' bicycles.
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Four little school girls c1980
The four little girls left to right areKaren BroomSarah MoneyDenise KewAmanda Rouse
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Members of the Bishop Family, Fred, Edie, Emmie and Rose
Emmie and brother George Bishop delivering vegetables by horse and cart before WWII. Emmie, really Emily Bishop married and became Mrs Emmie Papworth. With the lack of goods available during the WWII, their delivery round ceased.Emmie Papworth a...
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Philly Dewe, Freda Bradley's grandfather. 1930
Philly Dewe, Freda Bradley's Grandfather, in 1930.He died falling out of the walnut tree on the footpath between Bushey Row and New Road in what used to be called the Dump Field.
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The photograph captures the wedding of John William Bunce, known to everyone as Jack to Mary Radburn. They had children Iris, Les and Joan.John was brother to Emmie Sollis who ran the Lamb Inn in Buckland Road and Mary was Tom Papworth's Gra...
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Miss Hill, the teacher with school children. Miss Hill lived in Melita in Cheapside,
Miss Hill (teacher) with school children. Miss Hill lived in the house called Melita in Cheapside. She was the sister of Dorothy Hunt who married Dick Hunt and they lived in Broad Street.The older girl on the left is Amy Fairclough, mother of Bi...
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