In the 1970s Fleur de Lys was a hair salon owned by Margaret Roberts. It is in Bushey Row. There were several owners after Margaret and it was later a video rental shop, a shop selling twee things for gardeners and a Physiotherapy Centre. Now it sells pottery (2021)
When Lloyd Hughes Owens created a series of albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s there were people alive who could remember seeing Fred Able in Bampton with his little cart, two donkeys and his dog.
Scanned copy of old document containing extracts from Gardener's Gazetteer of Oxon 1852, Lascelles' Gazetteer of Oxon 1853 and Kelly's Directory of Oxon 1895. Listing businesses and trades in Bampton and surrounding villages, and the following surnames are included Adams Andrews Arkell Baines Baker Bateman Beckinsale Beechey Beresford Biddulph Bradshaw Bryant Bullem Burrow Butt Carter Chandler Clack Clifford Clinch Collins Cook Cook Cowley Cox Coxeter Cripps Croft Dewe Dickens Dipper Dumbleton Dutton Edgington Eldridge Evans Forest Fox Frampton Francis Frederick Gerring Giles Gillet Grove Hambridge Hardman Harris Holliday Hollis Hudson Hutchings Jackson Jeeves Jones Knight Lambeth Leforestier Long Lord Luckett May Miller Newport Oakey Patt Perkins Pettyfer Pinnock Pinnocks Plaster Pnnock Prior Pusey Reed Richards Robins Rose and Bullen Sellard Shepherd Smith Southby Sparrowhawk Spiers Spurret Steede Stevens Stone Swinburn Taylor Teall Thompson Townsend Trafford Vesey Waite Walker Walsh Ward Werman Whitaker Widdows Wilkins Williams Winstanley Winterborne Young
Funeral service for Les Harrison held in St Mary's Church on 23rd May 2023 Les Harrison he was married to Winifred who died 5.12.2017. They had two children, Winifred and Nigel. Les’s father Jack Harrison , as the butcher located at what is now Pear Tree Cottage in the High Street. A real old fashioned butchers’ shop with whole carcasses hanging from hooks in the ceiling. He later moved to the small shop (now Bampton Coffee House) attached to The Stores in the Market Square. Les also had a sister called Ruth.
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