In 1983 Terry Crowley began taking photographs of people in Bampton who worked here, or were born here, or worked for charities here or any combination.
Mrs Edith Foreshew from Wisteria (then a bungalow fashioned from the old school kitchen and dining room before the Horsa building were put up in the playground in 1947) Church View, was a member of the RBL and Mothers’ Union. She helped her sister Emmie in the paper shop sometimes.
Miss Dorothy (Dor) Graeme Thomson lived in Cheyne Lane. She ran an excellent organic vegetable garden after the war when she and Kate Wylie lived in Beam Cottage (it was not surrounded by houses then). She was a county councillor, president of the West Oxfordshire Arts Association and chairman of school governors. She is talking with Norman Gregory who married Merle Hobbs who taught several generations of children in Bampton. They moved to Henley-in-Arden. Norman was a churchwarden.
Mrs Rhona Hughes Owens from Rosemary House in the Market Square, wife of the retired headmaster of the school in Church View, was on the church council and was an organiser with the Darby & Joan club. She is helping Wendy Crowley out of the car.