44 Page Booklet on the Technique of Fiddling.
Front Cover shows Arnold Woodley, Morris Dancer, who contributed to the book .
Photography was by Roy Barratt
Audrey Smith edited the book, and the English Folk and Song Society provided information

This booklet was produce by the EFDSS pre 1971 because prices are in old money and the UK went decimal February 15th 1971. It is called The Dancing English.

Folk, dance and song.

'One Hour To Dusk' was a thriller performed before the interval and the light-hearted 'Poor Mr Shakespeare' afterwards, by the Bampton WI Drama Group produced by Hilda Pickard.

This report on the Survey & Plan of Bampton was done under the guidance of M W Robinson FRICS MTPI in October 1966. It makes very interesting reading and the conclusions are as relevant today as they were then. The topics covered are 1. Population 2. Situation 3. Character 4. The people 5. Shopping 6. Principal road connections 7. Schools 8. Open spaces 9. Social facilities, Public Services etc 10. Surface water drainage 11. Sewage disposal 12. Water supply and much more. It makes a very interesting read particularly in the light of all the dwellings that have been built here since October 1966, all those being built now (Jan 2017) and those being proposed when considering the access into Bampton has not been improved yet in 1966 one of the conclusions states was that Bampton could not take further development, a by-pass was not possible and no further space for parking other than possibly in Church Street could be made. Houses have since been built on the land in Church Street

'Jack and The Beanstalk' was a pantomime put on by the Bampton WI Drama group and produced by Hilda Pickard in January 1965.

Photograph of Bampton Children enjoying a show or pantomime in the WI Hall (Village Hall) in 1963.
The children are numbered in the second photo and named as follows:

1. Angela Brooks
2. ?
3. Patricia Preston
4. Lyn Beckley
5. Esther Green
6. Raymond Bradley
7. Sharon Foreshew
8. Richard Shepherd
9. Shelagh Danford
10. Roy Clarke
11. Fenella Quick
12. Maureen Clarke
13. Andy Clarke
14. Ann Jackson
15. ?
16. Mrs Edie Foreshew
17. Jean Cole
18. Lorraine Barber
19. Francis Barber
20. Neil Anderson
21. Kevin Bradley
22. ?
23. Jenny Bishop
24. Teresa Taylor
25. Lyn Wheeler
26. Darryl Hirons
27. ?
28. Anthony Collett
29. Ann (Biz) Cole
30. Tish Cole
31. Dougie Forshew
32. Penny Shergold
33. Pearl Paintin
34. Bridget Shergold

This is the program for a play put on by the Bampton Dramatic Society March 10th, 11th and 12th 1937. The play was called 'Barnet's Folly' by Jan Stewer. It was put on in the W. I. Hall (which is now called the Village Hall.)

These folk songs were written out in a little note book by Ada Tanner in 1926. It is not easy to find such things written between the war years.

Under the guidance of Hilda Pickard, the Drama Group in Bampton put on many excellent plays and pantomimes in the WI Hall, now called the Village Hall. This entry recalls just of few of them.MirandaOn The Road