Simon Bovington has written out a brief history of P & L Bovington - Paul and Les - and the fish shop in the High Street

Tom and Sylvia Papworth in their newsagents shop on Bridge Street in 2003

Photograph of John Temple standing in the doorway of his Hardware Store, Next to Londis Shop in Market Square. Not known date.

Mark's Kitchen, Rosemary House, Poachers' Rest

This video club shop was well used and its demise was brought about when the local little supermarket began renting films and it was just too easy to get a film from the supermarket while buying other items.
It was a special outing to rent a film from this shop in Bushey Row and a few people collected the posters that used. Now a film can be downloaded something of the magic of making the special effort to go out and rent a copy has gone.

Tom Parker the solicitor had his premises here. From the late C19th it was Constables Bakery and today, 2022 it is the Chinese Take Away called Mark's Kitchen

John Temple ran this hardware shop for many years and it was brilliant. He always had a smile on his face and worked very hard to stock items that were really wanted.

Richard Briers used to live in Carswell on the edge of Bampton and came to Adrian Simmonds' shop in the Market Square to buy his pet food. He is in the shop in this photograph.

Image of crowd outside the Londis Shop
watching the Shirt Race

In the middle of this picture you can see Angela John Antiques on the left and Health Matters on the right. Both were in the Market Square. To the left you can just see the entrance to Market Square Garage. On the right behind the blue car you can see two windows of the what was the WI Hall and later became the Village Hall.