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Bampton Morris Men 1951

  • BCA - 2023.4177
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  • 1951

Dancing outside the Elephant and Castle in 1951, this picture is from Country Life.
Francis Shergold on the Extreme left Jingy Wells on fiddle

Janet Westman

Bampton Traditional Morris Men

  • BCA - 2023.4230
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  • 1952

Photograph of team in 1952
Francis Shergold, Pete Allam, George Hunt, Harry Hampton, Bertie Clark, Bob Wells, Roy Shergold, George Dafter, Peter Wheeler Rex Wheeler

Janet Westman

Letter from Cecil Sharp House to Rose Wells on death of Nathan 'Jingy' Wells

  • BCA - 2019.2100
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  • November 1953

This letter is from the chairman of Cecil Sharp House, Douglas Kennedy to Rose Wells who lived at 18 Fox Close in Bampton. It was to thank Rose for the letter she sent informing them of her grandfather's death. Nathan William 'Jingy' Wells was responsible for keeping Morris dancing alive in Bampton at one time in the early twentieth century.

Bampton Community Archive

Bampton Traditional Morris Men, Letter re: Jingy Wells Death

  • BCA - 2023.4246
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  • 1953

Photograph of the letter sent to Rose Wells from Douglas Kennedy, Director of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, referring to the death of Jingly Wells who was Rose's Grandfather.
Dated 30th November 1953

Janet Westman

Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1958

  • BCA - 2023.4171
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  • 1958

Bertie Clark. Fiddle rear Harry Hampton (fool) Peter Alum, George Hunt, Bobby Wells cake
Bertie (1877.-1958) was another Bampton Morris fiddler, but unlike Wells
was not born into the tradition. He was brought up in London, where he worked at a railway depot
in Camden Town. He had some violin lessons, and played in the railway staff orchestra. Sometime
before the Great War he moved to Carterton, the village next to Bampton. When in 1926 Jinky Wells
had a falling-out with his Morris side, and went off to form his own, Bertie Clark was invited to be
fiddler for the original Bampton Morris; he initially learned the tunes from Cecil Sharp’s published
manuscripts (presumably relations with Wells were such that he wasn’t going to teach them to
Bertie himself!) Recordings of his playing made in 1958 appear on Rig-a-jig jig; dance music of the
south of England from Topic Records’ "Voice of the People" collection. A listen to his playing is very
instructive. At the time he would have been 81 years old, was quite likely well out of practice and
possibly arthritic.

Janet Westman

Gladys and Frank Ginger at Castle View Farm

  • BCA - 2024.6877
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  • 1958

Taken about 1958 opposite the Elephant & Castle and by Castle View farm. Gladys was one of the daughters of Mary Elizabeth and Albert Townsend. Syd White and Bobby Wells in the centre front. Sisters Lynne and Teresa Rouse on the left edge.

Janet Newman

Fete at Weald Manor to raise funds for new floor in St Mary's

  • BCA - 2019.1965
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  • June 1960

This is a newspaper article from the Oxford Times June 10th 1960 which talks about the fete held at Weald Manor by kind permission of Mrs A.M. Colvile and her son Major R.A. Colvile. It was to raise funds for the renewal of part of the floor inside Saint Mary The Virgin Church, specifically the parquet flooring across the front of the aisles by the pulpit and lectern.
It was Whit Monday, the day of Morris Dancing in Bampton (until the government stopped Whit Monday being a Bank Holiday and fixed it at the last Monday in May with may or not be Whit Monday) and the dancers called at the Fete.

Bampton Community Archive

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