Document put together by Mr Hughes Owens, one time headmaster of Bampton School. This shows many old picture of what Bampton looked like over the years together with typewritten descriptions.
Pembrey's department store, High Street T W Pembrey was Bampton's first and only department store. It comprised the building facing across Bushey Row (called New Inn Lane when this picture was taken), the thatched building now called Strawberry Cottage, the building next door and the next one which is just out of the camera shot. (The daughters grew up to run a school for ladies in the house called The Elms which is in Broad Street by the turn up to New Road.) When this picture was taken, which was probably right at the end of the 19th century, the Post Office was in the store. It moved from here to Wheelgate House in the High Street in 1918 where it stayed until 1972. All the buildings seen on the left are now private houses and the one across Bushey Row is (at 2014) Bampton Physiotherapy owned and run by Fiona Farmer