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Children playing in the ford down Cheyne Lane
Children playing in the ford down Cheyne Lane
Nik Stanbridge
Christmas Card competition November 1975
WOAA organised and held a Christmas Card competition in November 1975. There were over 150 entrants.
Top picture, Mrs Angela Mulliner is looking at some of the cards with Anderley Moore and Heather Manly.
The lower picture shows 11 year old Tim Manly holding the winner card, which he made. His prize was £5.
The cards were all exhibited in the Gallery.
Bampton Community Archive
Christmas Craft Fair December 1975 - spinning
At the Christmas craft fair in December 1975, Rosalind Green is showing how spinning used to be done with a beautiful spinning wheel made by Crowdys Wood Products, then based in Clanfield. Her daughter Hannah is standing next to her.
Christmas cards from the prize winning design, from the competition a week earlier were also on sale.
Bampton Community Archive
Church View looking to St Mary's
This picture is of Church View looking North towards St Mary The Virgin church.No cars, no footpath and little in the way of horse droppings so probably around 1940-1950.
Bampton Community Archive
Clair Dryden invested as May Queen
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
Constable bakers, J Brown grocery, Town Hall, Talbot Inn
Constable bakers, J Brown grocery, Town Hall, Talbot Inn
Nik Stanbridge
Country Living - September 2000
Country Living - September 2000
Nik Stanbridge
Craft sale in the Village Hall the night the Christmas Tree lights were switched on 2014
A tradition has been going for several years now with the Christmas Tree lights being switched on the last Friday in November. As part of the party feel of the evening, there are crafts for sale in the Village Hall as seen in this picture.
Bampton Community Archive