Bampton Community Archive

Peter Rowland Lewis 1932-2021

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2021

Funeral service of Peter Rowland Lewis at St Mary the Virgin Church 14 January 2021

Janet Westman

Peter Ross wins the £500 prize donated by Burford Garden Centre April 1997

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April 1997

In April 1997 Peter Ross was awarded first prize of £500 donated by Burford Garden Centre for his portrait of the poet W.H. Auden in the spring painting competition.

Bampton Community Archive

Peter Lewis dies January 3rd 2021

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2023

Peter Lewis dies January 3rd 2021

Nik Stanbridge

Peter Davis and his exhibition in the Old Grammar School about Witney Airfield 2015

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summer 2015

Witney Gazette June 24th 2015.

Peter Davis from Church Street put on a detailed and very interesting exhibition for the Bampton Community Archive in the Old Grammar School, Church Close about the Witney Airfield. The only suggestion of an airfield in the area now is in the names of three local roads, De Havilland Way, Range Road and Richard Jones Road.

Damaged Spitfires and Hurricanes aircraft damaged during WWII were serviced here. The airfield was important in both WWI and WWII. It opened in 1918 and closed in 1951.

The site was used as an RAF training unit, a base for tennis, horse racing and motorcycle speedway as well as for Witney and Oxford Aero Club and Witney Aeronautical College.

The catalogue of this exhibition, full of really interesting photos of the airfield is still on sale in the Vesey room.

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