Old photograph of the Dancers outside The Elephant and Castle, Bridge Street early 1900s

The Horse Fair in Bridge Street looking east. At one time, it was one of the larger horse fairs in the country. Boys with barrows collected the horse dung for sale. The Wheatsheaf became the post office in 1972 and a private house in 2010 when the post office moved to the middle room of the Town Hall. The three semi-circular windows in the first floor of was the HSBC bank (in 2014) and Patrick Strainge butchers have been altered at some point to look like their neighbouring upstairs windows.

3 Large ordnance Survey Maps used by Hadgood and Mammatt Auctioneers and Estate Agents from Witney. Published in 1921 price £5/- and £6/8d. Points of interest are Highmoor Brook, Plantation, Ham Court, Deanery Farm, Churchgate, Vicarage, Manor House, and Weald Manor House, old gravel pit and Beam Cottage, Calais Farm, Primrose Cottages, Fisher's Bridge

Horse Fair pre-WW I outside the Wheat Sheaf inn. Boys are collecting horse manure for vegetable gardens. Note the windows are quite different in what is now the HSBC bank and the butchers. The Wheat Sheaf became the Post Office about 1971 and became a private house in 2010 when the post office moved to the Town Hall and it became a private house.

Extract from Kelly's Directory listing private residencies, occupations and organisations of Bampton in 1935.

Dancing on Bridge Street outside Castle View Farm in 1948 George Dafter is the fool

Harry Pocock with his thrashing machine and tractor in 1958 driving out of Church Street into Broad Street. Edwin, Ruth and Joe Buckingham are on the tractor with him.

An invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, Agricultural and Thrashing Contractor to Alex Townsend of Ashtree Farm (in Weald Street) for threshing and baling @ £47 5s (£47.25p) but with a contra account of 2ctw of tater (potatoes), 2 men combing and 5 gallons of paraffin £8.11s.6d (£8.55½p) giving a bill of £38.13s.6d (£38.65½p) sent April 1959.

An invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, Agricultural and Thrashing Contractor to Alex Townsend of Ashtree Farm (Weald Street) for threshing and baling sent December 1959.

Seen in the spring of 1963, talking with Marjorie Pollard in Cheapside, when we had huge drifts of snow.

This Ordnance Survey Plan SP3003-3103. Dated 1971 shows area
Bridge St east to end of houses, north to new school, Colvile Close etc
Properties and Streets listed :
Air Training Corps
Ampney Lodge
Apple Tree Cottage
April Cottage
Army cadet Hut
Bakery
Bampton House
Bay Tree Cottage
Belgrave Cottage
Blackthorn Cottage
Blackthorn Cottagre
Bourton Cottage
Box House
Bushey House
Calais Farm
Cheapside
Chestnuts
Churchgate House
Churchgate House
Clevelly
Cobb House
Corner Cottage
Cornmill
Cotsway
Cotswold Lodge
Courtlands
Dairy Farm House
Deanery Farm
Down Home
Elephant and Castle
Eton Villas
Felix Cottage
Fernlea
Field Cottage
Fishers Bridge
Fleur de Lys
Folly House
Folly View
Fox Close
George and Dragon
Grayshot House
Ham Court
Haytor House
Highmoor Brook
Inglenook Cottage
Kilmore House
Kilmore House
Landells
Leighton Cottage
Lester House
Library
Lime Tree House
Little Pinkneys
Little Place Cottage
Littlemead
Lynton Mead
Mallows
Manor House
Matthew House
Melita
Moss Rose Cottage
Oathurst Estate
Plantation
Pococks Close
Police Office
Poplar Cottage
Primrose Cottages
Priory Cottage
Prospect Cottage
Prospect House
Prospect Place
Quebec Cottage
Rhandom
Roseann
Rosebrook
Rosemary House
San Toy
Sandford House
Southrop House
Southside
St Johns House
St Oswald
Sunnyside Cottage
Thatched Cottage
The Bungalow
The Deanery
The Eagle
The Elms
The Gate Cottage
The Glen
The Grange
The Grey House
The Haven
The Hermitage
The Horse Shoe
The Jubilee
The Malt Shovel
The Old Forge
The Vicarage
The Yews
Town Hall
Tudor Cottage
Turnings
Vaizey Cottage
Vicarage
Victoria Cottages
Vine Cottage
Weald Manor House
Wheelgate House
Windsmore
Windsor Cottagres
Yew Tree Cottage
Youth Club
Ampney Orchard
Aston Road
Bowling Green Close
Bridge Street
Broad Street
Buckland Road
Bushey Row
Chandler Close
Cheapside
Church Lane
Church Street
Church View
Colvile Close
Glebelands
High Street
High Street
Lavender Square
Manor View
Mercury Close
New Road
Queens Street
Rosemary Lane

Marion and Ted Lay lived in Bampton all their married life and as Jamie Wheeler says

"They were the loveliest people you could ever meet. I claim a slight family association as their daughter Marjorie married Jim Brooks. It was a second marriage for them both and Jim had previously been married to my Auntie Joyce. I always regarded him as my uncle. Ted was a Morris dancer years ago and we always did one dance outside his house on Whit Monday and for Mrs. Lay after Ted died. Mrs. Lay was sister of Harry Pocock whose name crops up on this site quite often. He died the day I was born (or so Mrs. Pocock used to tell me)"

Advert in Witney Gazette 1984 for Emmie's Paper shop