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Bush Club have tea in Ramsden

  • BCA - 2020.2452
  • Item
  • Item 1999

Horace Holifield of Safe Ride in Ramsden was a wonderfully generous man. He created an outer building with a kitchen and invited many groups to have tea or lunch there and he had a very good electric organ inside and would entertain people

Bampton Community Archive

Trojan Tourer 1924 model owned by Doug Read.

  • BCA - 2020.2448
  • Item
  • c1960

A photograph of a Trojan Tourer 1924 model owned by Doug Read. Douglas Read OBE driving, passengers David Hunt, Bill Bullock, Geoff Hunt.

Bampton Community Archive

Tea ticket for Horticultural Society

  • BCA - 2020.2447
  • Item
  • mid twentieth century

This ticket for a tea was found in a pile of bits and pieces when clearing out a garage. Teas were sold to raise funds for the Bampton Horticultural Society. The cost was 6 pence in old money - 6d - so pre decimalisation of February 1971.

Bampton Community Archive

Tea ticket for Horticultural Society

  • BCA - 2020.2447
  • Item
  • mid twentieth century

This ticket for a tea was found in a pile of bits and pieces when clearing out a garage. Teas were sold to raise funds for the Bampton Horticultural Society. The cost was 6 pence in old money - 6d - so pre decimalisation of February 1971.

Bampton Community Archive

Pumpkin Club Grand Weigh-in 1983

  • BCA - 2020.2440
  • Item
  • October 14th 1983

The annual weigh-in for the Pumpkin Club, October 14th 1983. John Buckingham aged 21 had the heaviest pumpkin at 142 lbs. John Simpson and Ron Bateman both from Radio Oxford were weigh-masters. One pumpkin was found to have concrete in the middle and was obviously disqualified but there were roars of laughter when the owner was said to be Mr U B Foulde aka Graham Taylor who had created it for fun. The junior section was won by Gerry Lea Markey. The marrow section was won by 13 year old Dale Stevens. Produce donated by locals was auctioned off after the weigh-in and was expected to raise about £300 for Bampton's elderly which would be distributed at Christmas.

Bampton Community Archive

Hanging the Bampton WI Banner is St Mary The Virgin Church

  • BCA - 2020.2339
  • Item
  • May 21st 2014

On May 21st 2014 the Bampton WI banner was hung in the south wing of St Mary The Virgin.The banner was made by Pat Barratt, second from the right, and shows several aspect of Bampton life, notably the Morris dancing,

Bampton Community Archive

Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society certificate

  • BCA - 2019.2214
  • Item
  • late C19th to early C20th

Before our National Health System came into being in July 1948, people could pay a little each week into a club or Friendly Society and if they should find themselves unable to work through illness or accident

Bampton Community Archive

Windmill frame used by Radio Hams in Weald

  • BCA - 2019.2201
  • Item
  • 1965
  1. This pylon was the framework that once held a windmill on White Owl farm. The farm belonged to Bert and Ted Wilkins.

Bampton Community Archive

Bampton Brass Band, early C20th

  • BCA - 2019.2189
  • Item
  • early twentieth century

Bampton had a brass band in the very early days of the twentieth century. The picture of them playing outside the Town Hall, taken in 1908 was kindly lent to the Archive by Barbara Daw.

December 17th 1902 in aid of The Foresters' Brass Band.

Bampton Community Archive

Amateur Radio Club on Lundy Island 1965

  • BCA - 2019.2165
  • Item
  • 1965

The pennant of the 3rd Squadron, 14th Signals Regiment, Bampton, flies over Lundy Island where the men from Bampton Signals camp have gone to operate an amateur radio station.

Bampton Community Archive

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