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Bampton Pumpkin Club Minutes from 1976-77

  • BCA - 2023.4060
  • Item
  • 1976-77

Handwritten Minutes from the Meetings of the Pumpkin Club held at the Cotswold Grill from January 1976 to June 1977
Club President Countess Munster
Vice President Jim Gascoigne
Chairman Ken Mullis
Vice Chairman Ron Saunders
Secretary Bill Govier
Treasurer Mrs J Taylor
Committee Iris Humphries, Jack Lawrence, Dave Passmore. A Jordan,

Janet Westman

Pumpkin Club, Charity Regulation and Rules,

  • BCA - 2023.4058
  • Item
  • 1974-76

Various documents appertaining to the Pumpkin Club Charity, including a Raffle Ticket, Certificate of Registration complying with the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1968 and rules for Street collecting.
The Head Office listed as Eagle Inn and the Cotswold Grill and the permission was issued by West Oxfordshire District Council and given to T. P. Govier

Janet Westman

Summer Inquirer 1976 Originals

  • BCA - 2022.3860
  • Item
  • 1976

6 pages magazine produced by group of young people covering news and events in the local Villages Alvescot, Bampton, Kencot, and Stanton Harcourt, Published by West Oxfordshire Arts Association Literary panel at Grange Cottage July 1976 costing 15 pence.

Janet Westman

Easter Inquirer 1975

  • BCA - 2022.3857
  • Item
  • 1975

6 pages magazine produced by group of young people covering news and events in the local Villages Alvescot, Bampton, Kencot, Broadwell and Brize Norton. Published be West Oxfordshire Arts Association Literary panel at Grange Cottage April 1975 costing 15 pence.

Janet Westman

Son Townsend 50 years a Morris fool; children with garlands

  • BCA - 2021.2610
  • Item
  • 1974

In 1974 Son Townsend clocked up 50 years as a Morris Dancer and later Fool in Bampton. He first danced out with the side in 1925. To mark the occasion a clock and silver salver were given to Son.
The young dancers left to right behind Son are (I think?) Clive Tanner, Fred Cook, Mat Green and Malcolm Willis.
The young children with their flower garlands are L-R Tim Waller, Emma Carruthers, Louise Walker and Martin Landray

Nik Stanbridge

May Bank Holiday festivities in Bampton

  • BCA - 2021.2609
  • Item
  • 1974

Bampton always has a weekend filled with fun and laughter over the late May Bank Holiday. These cuttings talk about the Shirt Race and the Morris Dancing.
In one of the cuttings you can also read about

  1. An exhibition of Arts and Crafts in the Town Hall
  2. Cancer Research Bampton branch raising funds
  3. The Community Fete organised by the Royal British Legion in the afternoon of Bank Holiday Monday
  4. The Pumpkin Club which held a Tramps' Supper in the Cotswold Hotel on the Saturday night after the Shirt Race

Nik Stanbridge

Clair Dryden invested as May Queen

  • BCA - 2021.2613
  • Item
  • 1974

Clare Dryden was invested as May Queen. Bob Harris, probably best known for presenting The Old Grey Whistle Test but at this point he was a presenter on Radio Oxford, put the sash on Clare. The ceremony took place in the WI Hall, Market Square. It is now the Village Hall.

Nik Stanbridge

Pumpkin Club Mini Fete

  • BCA - 2023.4049
  • Item
  • 1974

Newspaper Cutting with photographs of Mini Fete, showing 11 year old Anita Saunders and Pauline Taylor, and Iris Humphries, Dinah Taylor and Joyce Anderson. and 10 year old Paul Passmore helping on the stalls.
The cuttings are from the Standard, Times, & Echo dated Friday 1st June 1973. “Holiday festivities in Bampton”, “Bampton shirt race comes of age” and “Bampton Annual Fête”

Janet Westman

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