Don McNeil with some of his pottery figures on exhibition at the West Oxon Art Association's Fair. 1974Tony Handley demonstrating the art of country chair restoration. 1974
Two year old Suzannah and five year old Martin Landray trying out some of the glove puppets made by Jan Burrage of Carterton at the Arts Association craft fair. November 1974Clare and Hannah Green with some of the toys made by their father that we...
This photograph was taken in Tickhill at Rock House when Bampton Traditional Morris Men went up to Yorkshire for a weekend of dancing. The date is probably 1995 but could be 96 or 97.The ladies are wives and girlfriends and daughters of the dance...
With financial help from Southern Arts, WOAA were able to get Opus 5 to sing in Bampton. The professional singers :-John VickersJohn WilmanTrevor OwenRoger HemingwayAlan FairsThey have sung in Worcester and Gloucester Cathedral choirs, with the B...
The poster advertising the members' exhibition to run from February 11th to March 3rd 1979. It was put on with financial help from the Southern Arts Association.Items created by 90 members were shown and for sale
Two cuttings with comments about the exhibition in March 1977.Works by Ann Manly, T. H. Cooke , J. Martin, Michael Brockway, E. Baylis, Anthony Baynes and Audry Lintott are singled out for praise while others are deemed embarrassingly amateurish.
A collection of newspaper cuttings about the recital given in St Mary's by Liza Hobbs soprano and David Wright. It was presented by WOAA. Lisa was in her final year at Trinity College of Music of which David was a fellow. Music by Purcell,...
This is the little catalogue for May, June and July 1976 listing all the upcoming events.It also briefly list a few things that will take place in August, September and October 1976
This is the events brochure for May, June and July 1975 and a cutting from the West Oxfordshire Standard July 25th about the exhibition called 'Jackdaw.' It included many items whose attraction or beauty was incidental to their purpose.
The catalogue listing the exhibitions to take place in August, September and October 1973.John Birkhead - ChairmanAnn Manly - SecretaryMargaret Birkhead - PublicityN.J.B. Robson - Hon. TreasurerI.O. Welch - Hon. SolicitorThe panel members wereArt ...
The WOAA literary pane organised several workshop in June and July 1973. They included:-A drama workshop June 6th at Weald Manor for adults and older children under the guidance of David Thomas with a performance in the evening.A Children's ...
This is a critique of the film "The Ruling Class" by the film panel. This film was released in 1972 and was the official British entry to the Cannes Film Festival.
This is the catalogue of the Spring Exhibition of 1973. There was work by:-Charles MussettClaerwen HollandAngela MullinerD. W. BunceGary WoodleyLaurence FlemingMargaret RalstonAnthony BaynesRichard Dobbs
This page gives an outline of when and how the West Oxfordshire Arts Association was formed and how it was to be run initially at least.Saturday May 26th 1973 was the first day of the first exhibition in the Gallery, the upstairs room in the Town ...
In 2013, Margaret Landray who was a founder member of West Oxfordshire Arts Association, WOAA, which later became known as West Ox Arts, wrote her memoir of the Arts Association and this is her hand-written account. The association was the brainc...
The first exhibition of WOAA contained work by 14 invited artists and over 100 people came to the private viewing, not just from Bampton but from neighbouring villages like Holwell, Westwell, Swinbrook, Standlake and Harwick demonstrating the achi...
WOAA got underway with its first exhibitions in the spring of 1973.Music, drama and dance, film and photography, literature and art were all represented by different panels with its centre in the Gallery of the Town Hall. The panels would meet in...
This is a leaflet produced to advertise the forthcoming exhibitions in January, February, March and April 2012. The titles areColour, Pattern, RhythmNatural WorldCapturing The MomentLosing The ThreadPattern, Colour and Stitch in Textile Collage
In March 2012 husband and wife Ann Manly and Dennis Harrison exhibited some of their work under the title 'Capturing The Moment.' Watercolours painted outside in Venice, Lagraville in France, Seatoller Bridge in the Lake District, Mete...
Ann Manly and Dennis Harrison, husband and wife were founder members of WOAA which later became West Ox Arts. They produced a huge number of beautiful watercolour paintings, nearly all painted outside in many parts of the UK and Europe. Nothing ...
Ann Manly and Dennis Harrison produced hundreds of beautiful watercolour paintings and they had no difficulty in selling them. They were always priced very reasonably and the pictures were always a delight and much sort after. This exhibition in...
Ann Manly and Dennis Harrison, husband and wife were watercolour artists with a very similar style and love of painting outside, in several countries as well as the UK. This exhibition of their work in November 2002 had pictures created in Venice...
George Fox exhibited his paintings in the Gallery in June 2006. Subjects are all from nature, some with the hand of man both good and bad combined. He shows a nostalgic side; a darker and quieter mood; the changing face of landscapes brought abo...
This letter is from the chairman of Cecil Sharp House, Douglas Kennedy to Rose Wells who lived at 18 Fox Close in Bampton. It was to thank Rose for the letter she sent informing them of her grandfather's death. Nathan William 'Jingy...
These picture were taken in 2007 and show the electric motor which now drives the church clock. It used to be powered by weight and pendulum which had to be wound up twice a week along with the weight that drove the carillon. There is a picture ...
Private William Johnson Ox & Bucks Light Infantry 5th Battalion 10677 A Company. His granddaughter Pamela Smith has put together these items.William was the first young man in Bampton to volunteer and the town awarded him a clock for this. H...
On July 10th 1996 the Bampton branch of the Women's Institute held a garden party to celebrate their 75th anniversary. People who attended includeElizabeth ChambersRose PittsRona Hughes OwensMidge NewmanJanet HuckJoyce LeeElsie ByeClare Edwa...
In September 1989 the Bampton Branch of the Women's Institute helped celebrated its 70th anniversary of the Oxfordshire WI at Westminster College. One of their stalls was a 'purple' stall seen in the first picture and the 2nd shows...
The old carillon had to be turned off permanently in the end when too many pins on the drum had fallen out and simply would not stay in place when put back. The resulting sound was not good. When the drum rotated, each pin in the drum would trig...
Lendon Scantlebury and Dawn Benson exhibited in the Gallery in February 2004. Lendon showed work with brilliant colour inspired by Barbados while Dawn used textured pastels to capture the mood of the place.
Janet Callender is an award winning water colour illustrator of plants and her work was on display through February 2007 in the Gallery along with mixed media artists Joy Perkins and calligrapher and botanical painter Isabelle Spencer.
Works by :-Korky PaulSue HeapMini GreySarah Garsonwere all aspects of an exhibition centred on storytelling for children. Korky did a talk and workshop, Mini and Sarah held a 'meet the author session. They are all active within The Story Mus...
"Picture books are multi-track ways of talking, using words, graphics, page design, cartoons and art as a way of telling many things simultaneously" said Michael Rosen. In this exhibition West Ox Arts brought another dimension to Korky ...
With a blend of puppetry, storytelling, animated sculptures, imaginative sets and wonderful music composed specially by Andrew Dodge for this production, Cornelius and Jones Original Productions produced a wonderful evening of storytelling by Neil...
Brien O'Rourke was a Morris Dancer under squire Arnold Woodley for many years and the colours in one of his paintings are those of the ribbons and colours worn by the Woodley Morris side. His paintings depicting the different seasons show a ...
A group of printmakers came together to put on a really lovely display of their work in September 2006. Artists includedJane Peart - who has an affinity with animalsHeather Power - etched sculptural winter trees and stitched booksMorna Rhys - wat...
A distinctive collection of contemporary pottery was on show in April 2006 under the appropriate titel 'Pots' and included work from ten artists under the watchful eye of Sue Rangeley. Some of the artists includedMark DallyGraham Hudson...
This delightful telling of the story of Pinocchio was done in the Village Hall in January 2006. Really cleaver use of puppetry, songs, music and storytelling thrilled the children, and the accompanying adults.Neil Canham was the only performer an...
'Lasting Love' was an exhibition in 2005 that offered a wonderful range of subjects and media. Artists includedNeil Drury - really vibrant colours in oil, pastel, collage and gouacheElizabeth Balkwell - beads, a silversmith, semi precio...
Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company with 'Beauty and The Beast' played in very many villages in Oxfordshire. It was written by Mike Kenny and directed by Lawrence Evans. Olivia Wright and Sean Hammond were two of the cast members.
Four artists provided the exhibits on display in the gallery at the Imprimaturs' exhibition of prints and sculptures. One of the artists was Geoff Smith of Faringdon whose lovely images of Coleshill Watermill and Great Coxwell Tithe Barn wer...
Five artists using different media tell their own witty and intriguing stories in an exhibition titles 'In Character'Eleanor Edwards - wire and paper for her sculpturesAlan Ludwig Kestner - complex figurative drawings explore folktale, m...
Mini Grey is an award winning children's author and she was to visit Bampton for an afternoon of story telling for children aged 4-7 years old. It was organised by the Story Museum in partnership with West Ox Arts.
Four women exhibited in February 2005 using a wide variety of media and enjoying an exuberant pleasure in colour.Joan Dutton - kiln formed glassRuth Macdonald - brilliantly coloured paintingsJennifer Wates - oil and acrylicSarah Gilpin - carvings ...
Oxford Touring Company went on tour with a new family show called 'Noah's Ark' with sets that could be lifted easily out of cars and vans and great use was made of puppets to bring the show to life. On December 15th the play was pu...
Oxford Scribes, a society of calligraphers collaborated with the Oxford Guild of Printers to put on an exhibition of contemporary manuscripts, printed alphabet books and type specimen posters in the Gallery.
Brien O'Rourke concentrate on painting winter scenes using oil and encausitc, which is a means of painting with wax, in which colours have been combined, and which is fused with heat afterwards to fix the colours.
West Ox Arts was looking for a new chairman after the death of Gerry Glaister who had been chairman for 3 years. The present exhibition of members' work to the end of the month includes African-style acrylics by artist Michelle Buh-Nielsen.
Ariana Windle was one of 4 artists to exhibit in September 2004 but she died shortly before the exhibition date. However, her children hung some of her work alongside that of Lesley Williams, Lyn Anderson and Ben Drew.
Among artists exhibition in Bampton were Ann Manly and her husband Dennis Harrison with their water colours, drawings by Christine Burgess, sculptures by Juliet Dyer.
All the exhibitors are past students of Pat Elmore of Nutfield Lodge, Longcot near Faringdon. Some of the exhibitors includePat BannisterDavid BindonGordon DowellRon HolmesSheila LambertFranc MurphyElaine McElroyRon Holmes
An exhibition with the title 'Stone, Fire, Paper, Water' was put on in the Gallery in April 2003 by four artists.Alec Peever - sculptures on slate - StoneRachel Higgins - animal sculptures - fireAnnie Wootton - papier-mâché - PaperJulia ...
After the merger of the nine region arts boards into one, Arts Council England has published its manifesto, 'Ambitions. In this article Penelope Marcus, a regional council member and on the boards of Oxford Inspires and Modern Art Oxford, lo...
Paintings by the Thames artist Kate Watkins were on show in the Gallery in Bampton through February 2003.Two other artists were also exhibiting along side Kate.Mrs Oldfield from Aston Clinton and Kate Watkins offering landscape oil paintingsDi Old...
A photographic exhibition on trees, not unsurprisingly called 'Forest' was put together by John Gillett the art director of SATES (Southern Arts Touring Exhibition Service).Paul Maple helped pupils from Bampton School see trees in a diff...
A tradition has been going for several years now with the Christmas Tree lights being switched on the last Friday in November. As part of the party feel of the evening, there are crafts for sale in the Village Hall as seen in this picture. For s...
Two happy children with their dog playing in the Highmoor Brook off Cheyne Lane. Sadly the vegetation has encroached from both sides of the slipway making access to the water very narrow. Even more shocking is the owners of the land behind the c...
Coins found by the metal detectorists on November 1st 2014, in Bampton. There are 24 pages showing photographs of the finds, listing their weight, their metallic composition and shows their size.
This is a photograph of the Horse Fair taken outside the Wheat Sheaf Inn in Bridge Street. Note the man collecting the horse manure off the road which was prized in all vegetable gardens. Young boys used to collect it up and sell it for a few pe...
When Rose Gerring died, aged 89, the Archive was given a box full of all sorts of things that were in her house. This photograph was taken in Corn Street, Witney and the people are celebrating a special occasion, probably the Diamond Jubilee of Q...
When work was done at Castle View, which at one time was Castle View farmhouse, a well was found. When the work to modernise was completed, the well was covered over and is now under part of the kitchen.
Dr Alan Gaydon was churchwarden at St Mary The Virgin for several years and during his tenure the gales of January 25th 1990 blew the stature of John The Baptist off the base of the spire. It impacted into the roof above the organ pipes which res...
As part of the exhibition on A History of Trade in Bampton, Mavis Newing kindly supplied this historical account of Sherbourne houses, 1 and 2 in Bridge Street
Wedding Day for Natasha Papworth, seen here with her parents Tom and Sylvia Papworth. They are standing in the doorway of their home, Emmies, the papershop which sadly closed for the last time in 2012. Tom tried hard to find a buyer to keep the ...
L-R Bill Daniels, Ray Borrett, Billy Main, Tony Daniels (started dancing in 1965), Martin Ferguson, David Rose dancing outside The Talbot under squire Francis Shergold
The George and Dragon while still a pub and Quebec Cottage when it wasn't hidden by trees. It's now almost impossible to see the cottage in the summer when the leaves are on the trees.
Helen Cadd wrote"The photo was posted over from America by Olive McCabe, nee Olive Peacock back when the photo was taken . Aunty Olive found the photo in a set of drawers she was clearing out."One picture shows the girls along with Jim H...
Two visiting teams outside the George & Dragon; Eynsham are dancing and Abingdon Morris are waiting to dance. There are no signs outside the inn so it must be post 1994.
This picture is of Edie Quick, mother of Fenella Gray, Jenny and Ken and wife to John.John along with Paul Bovington was a founder member of the SPAJERS.
Bampton Traditional Morris Dancers under squire Francis Shergold, fool Terry Rouse outside The Talbot about 1982.Brother and sister Francis Shergold and Ruth Wheeler on the right looking down at the two little boys
There used to be a vicar's seat each side of the chancel and just beyond them, an extra row of seats for the choir. Back in the early 1980s these to vicars' seats disappeared and the front row of seating in front of the linen-fold pews ...
"The crest on the lighter is that of the USAF 5th Air Force that has been based in the Pacific since 1942. Brize Norton air base was handed to the USAF in 1951 and returned to the RAF in 1965. Zippo type lighters were very popular at the time...
Andrew McCabe sent the Archive this photograph. It is of his parents' wedding, James McCabe and Olive Peacock, probably about 1950."In the wedding photo, from the left is my aunt Zita Donnelly who flew over for the wedding. I think tha...
This dinner party gathering in the WI Hall, now called the Village Hall, was probably in the very early 1960s. Sadly, we don't know for sure why the people were gathering but it may well be to do with the British Legion. Some names are on t...
These ladies were at a British Legion Christmas gathering in the early 1960s. They include1. Mrs Colvile2. Millicent Birch3. Edie Foreshew4. Mabel Dixon5. Kit Tanner6. Lucy Shergold7. Mrs Ellis8.9. Nellie Brooks10. Mrs Horne11. Ada Tanner12.13. A...
This old photograph shows the Bampton Town Football Club members in the 1910 to 1911 season. They includeBack row:- Mark Kerry, George Batts, Harry GreenMiddle row:- Fred Green, WAD Morris, Bill TannerFront row:- Fred Fox, F Robinson, Jim Pryor,...
Mummering has taken place in Bampton for at least 134 which is when Rev Giles mentions it in his book about Bampton. Don Rouse has written a far more up-to-date account which you'll find after the photographs. The names of the performers ha...
By December 2018 there was growing anger and frustration at many aspects of the new area called Cala Homes also known as Oakwood Gate, along the north side of New Road which had not been finished or done to a good standard. Residents first moved ...
On October 1st 2017 Oxfordshire County Council were to begin a new contact with W&S Recycling which would mean people being charged to recycle items that were free. It remains to be seen if this will increase the amount of fly-tipping in the ...
Local artists, husband and wife Ann Manly and Dennis Harrison held an exhibition of their beautiful watercolours in November 2002 under the title 'Drawn to Light'They have been exhibiting in the gallery for more than 15 years and their w...