These are just five of the adverts in the July 2012 issue of The Bampton Beam and are for

Little Westbrook self catering in Bridge Street
A personal trainer
Prestige Buildings
Bampton Garage
S J Cooper, builder

An advert in The Beam 2012 for Bampton Garage run by George Gascoigne

Les and Stella King owned a department store Kings of Bampton in the High Street. selling, haberdashery, toys, shoes and all manner of household items. Baby clothes, underwear, ladies and gent's clothes and made to measure garments.

An advert in a 2012 issue of The Beam for Little Westbrook self catering in Bridge Street

An advert in the July 2012 issue of The Beam for Tad Pearson, a personal fitness trainer

Five of the adverts in the July 2012 issue of The Bampton Beam

Newspaper clipping about Graham Lord, winning Distinguished Service Award at British Poultry Council Awards Ceremony at the House of Commons
Graham worked at PD Hook Hatcheries at Cote

Patrick Strainge, butcher, has his shop in Bridge Street opposite the Horse Shoe Inn and next to Cheyne Lane. At the annual Smithfield Show he got a Gold Medal after he got top makes for five products.

n November 2015 eight products, including Patrick Strainge's Bampton Royal sausages were nominated for the Q Guild Smithfield Awards. Only 200 butchers in England can hold a Q guild aware at any one time so it really is a feather in the cap of our local butchers shop.
The Bampton Royal sausages were also a firm favourite with many members of the cast of Downton Abbey which was partly filmed in Bampton.

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