Bampton Community Archive

Man on bicycle, lady with shawl, young lads, lady with baby & pram outside the Elephant and Castle

BCA - 2023.4788
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2023

Man on bicycle, lady with shawl, young lads, lady with baby & pram outside the Elephant and Castle

Nik Stanbridge

Millenium Breakfast at The Elephant and Castle

BCA - 2024.6918
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1st January 2000

Menu for the breakfast served at The Elephant and Castle on New Year's Day 2000. Bampton also celebrated on New Year's Eve with music and fireworks in the Market Square.

Janet Newman

Morris dancing in front of the Elephant and Castle (1950)

BCA - 2019.1800
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1950

1950 Morris dancing in front of the Elephant and Castle on Bridge Street

Nik Stanbridge

Morris dancing outside the Elephant and Castle, Bridge Street

BCA - 2022.3607-BCA - 2022.3662
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1989

Part of Views of Bampton in the 1980s and 1990s

Nik Stanbridge

Morris Men outside the Elephant & Castle c1924

BCA - 2020.2338
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1924 or 1925

Bampton Morris dancers c1924/5 outside the Elephant & Castle.

The sign over the pub door says Posting House, Horses, Carriages, Brakes. Personal attention given, Albert Townsend. The 3rd and 4th lines are hard to read which is a pity but it looks like 'For Hire All Trains Met On The Shortest Notice.

On 23rd September 1935 the Townsend family moved across the road to Castle View and made a farm of it having much more room to fatten more pigs.

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Mr & Mrs Harry Sollis from The Swan Inn, Buckland Road

BCA - 2019.1894
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c1951-1964

Mr & Mrs Harry Sollis owned and ran the Swan Inn in Buckland road for many years. In the last few years, Mrs Sollis ran it as a widow. Emmie Papworth, nee Bishop was a relative and adored Mrs Sollis; Emmie is seen with her in two of these pictures and her son Tom is with them in one of them. Mrs Sollis eventually sold The Swan by auction October 1st 1964; it was bought by Tim Tomlins.

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