Bampton Community Archive

BCA - 2021.3087
Pièce
2021

Dora Townsend as a little girl with a family of ducklings, at the back of the Elephant and Castle, then a pub in Bridge Street. Note the barrels and milk churns in the background.

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From the collection of Dora Townsend

BCA - 2021.3088
Pièce
2021

Unknown woman in WWII uniform; a picture from the collection of Dora Townsend so perhaps one of the Townsend family or a friend of Dora

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a926. Gladys Amy Ginger nee Townsend at Castle View farm

BCA - 2021.3091
Pièce
2021

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Ethel Mary Townsend with possibly Dora Townsend, her sister

BCA - 2021.3092
Pièce
2021

Dora Townsend as a child, with Ethel Townsend her older sister. Ethel was born in 1907 and Dora in 1921

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Albert Townsend with his gig

BCA - 2021.3109
Pièce
2021

Albert Townsend's horse drawn carriage service which he ran from Castle View Farm on Bridge Street. He particularly took people to and from Bampton railway station which was about 2 miles outside Bampton on the edge of what is now RAF Brize Norton. He was very enterprising having one of the first, if not the first lorries in Bampton which he used to collect coal from the station for selling. This lorry would be scrubbed spotless, seats fastened to the floor and the children from the Methodist Sunday school taken for a day trip to Savernake Forest for a treat once a year. He also farmed, first keeping pigs behind the Elephant and Castle when he had the license there and then with other farming aspects when he moved across the road to Castle View Farm.

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