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Morris Men outside the Elephant & Castle c1924

BCA - 2020.2338
Item
1924 or 1925

Bampton Morris dancers c1924/5 outside the Elephant & Castle.

The sign over the pub door says Posting House, Horses, Carriages, Brakes. Personal attention given, Albert Townsend. The 3rd and 4th lines are hard to read which is a pity but it looks like 'For Hire All Trains Met On The Shortest Notice.

On 23rd September 1935 the Townsend family moved across the road to Castle View and made a farm of it having much more room to fatten more pigs.

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Morris men carried through floods by Elephant & Castle

BCA - 2023.6086
Item
2023

Morris men carried through floods by Elephant & Castle

Nik Stanbridge

Morris Dancing Supporter Eric Stott

BCA - 2023.4223
Item
1980

Picture of Eric Stott 1980. A great supporter of the Bampton Morris Dancers

Janet Westman

Morris dancing outside the Elephant and Castle, Bridge Street

BCA - 2022.3607-BCA - 2022.3662
Part
1989

Part of Views of Bampton in the 1980s and 1990s

Nik Stanbridge

Morris Dancing in the Market Square 1897

BCA - 2021.2561
Item
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

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