VIDEO: Mary Shergold talks about her experiences as a parlour maid and joining the Land Army in WW2
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Mary Shergold talks about her experiences as a parlour maid and joining the Land Army in WW2
Nik Stanbridge
VIDEO: Mary Shergold talks about her experiences as a parlour maid and joining the Land Army in WW2
Mary Shergold talks about her experiences as a parlour maid and joining the Land Army in WW2
Nik Stanbridge
Evacuees to Bampton 1940 and Shirley Boyce's Memoir
Shirley Boyce was an Evacuee to Bampton during World War II and has written an account of her time in Bampton staying at a Manor House (Weald Manor?). Which had been divided into flats. She later stayed in Aston. The photo is of evacuated children from Bow, London playing in the grounds of Weald Manor in 1940. Two boys Kenny Howe and Leslie Tucker were billeted in New Road with Mr and Mrs Whighting?
Janet Westman
Brothers Jim and Dick Daniels c1940
These are brothers Jim and Dick Daniels. Jim is the older brother standing in the front in a scout's uniform. Dick is in the background. A few years later Jim joined the Air Scouts and did circuits and bumps and enjoyed it despite not liking heights.
Their had a sister called Freda who became Mrs Freda Bradley and she wrote a lovely book about life in Bampton she recalled during her life.
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Morris Men Jingy Wells
Dancers outside the Eagle date not known. Jingy Wells on Fiddle
Janet Westman
Elsie Portlock and others in fancy dress.
Elsie Portlock and others in fancy dress.
Bampton Community Archive
Dawn and Tina Mansfield in fancy dress.
Dawn and Tina Mansfield in fancy dress having just passed the Elephant and Castle Inn. Note pre-decimalisation prices of the ice cream. 1d was 1 penny and 240 pennies made £1.
Bampton Community Archive
Photograph showing a party of Methodist members going on an outing standing in front of bus.
Names have been added to the second copy as follows
Eva Mary Portlock
Mrs Portlock
Dora Townsend
Mrs Townsend
Ted Kitchen
Mrs Smith and Son
Polly
Aggie Beckett
Mrs Bishop
Cecil Robinson
Bert Whitlock
Janet Westman
William Kimber, who played for Heading Quarry was a friend of Bampton Morris.
William Kimber, who played for Heading Quarry was a friend of Bampton Morris. His side danced at Mrs Birch's Sandfield Cottage in Headington and her son-in-law was staying.
Bampton Community Archive
Cards from Jack Townsend to his mother and sister Dora 20-6-1942
Nik Stanbridge
Lighter with the USAF 5th Air Force crest; it was in the Pacific from 1942.
"The crest on the lighter is that of the USAF 5th Air Force that has been based in the Pacific since 1942. Brize Norton air base was handed to the USAF in 1951 and returned to the RAF in 1965.
Bampton Community Archive