Two local families, Barry & Geraldine Court and Gerald & Yvonne Clutterbuck & son Lee set off to cross Africa 1975.

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)"

The photo shows 3 Dr Landrays:

• Robert Landray (GP in Bampton)
• Margaret Landray (worked under maiden name of Dr Bray, anaesthetist at Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon)
• Martin Landray (consultant physician, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; and Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology at University of Oxford).

All 3 went to the Medical School at University of Birmingham (but I was a bit later than the other two!). All 3 still live in Bampton.

All written by Martin

img215 Cadet Flight Sergeant Frederick Gerring retired at 21 July 5th 1972

These newspaper cuttings, all from local papers are from 1972. Topics covered include:

• the marriage of Richard Snook to Shirley Cranston
• reports from the badminton club, football bingo, the bowls club, SPAJER's pensioners' party
• Drew Warren hitting a cow
• another death from the Wood Green School crash (Alec White)

Information about the Morris Dancers written by Arnold Woodley, Frank Woodley and Sonny Townsend
Families mentioned as follows:
Dixey
Radband
Flux
Hudson
Lay
Pettifer
Smith
Butler
Brooks
Dafter
Fidler
Kerry
Brown
Tanner
Woodley
Townsend
Cassiday
Fowler
Pearman
Woodley
Buckingham
Picketts
Edington
Hunt

43 assorted photographs from Shirt Race and Donkey Derby taken over the years, showing how the people of Bampton have enjoyed these events since 1953.

Photograph of Peter Elliott (yellow jumper) and Roy Hewitt behind the bar in the Talbot Hotel

Poem about Bampton Football Team which was formed by Albert Radband and the pitch was down the Buckland Road. Named in the poem are
Albert Radband
Frank Hudson
Eric Truman
Rodney Adams
Simon Goddard
Ginger Townsend
Johnnie Marston
Frankie Barrett
Philip Hewitson
Roger Siford
Mick Walsh
George Siford
Terry Cravens
Peter Hawks
Willie Truman

Photograph of Cyril Wheeler (left) and Bill Brown (in dancers outfit)
Cyril was the husband of Ruth (nee Shergold)