Bampton Community Archive

Fair in Market Square, held at Horse Fair time

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Fair in Market Square, held at Horse Fair time

Nik Stanbridge

Horse Fair, Church Green

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Horse Fair, Church Green

Nik Stanbridge

Horse Fair outside the Talbot. Carts outside Thompsons, the high class grocers

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Horse Fair outside the Talbot. Carts outside Thompsons, the high class grocers

Nik Stanbridge

Running the horses at the horse fair along Bridge Street

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Running a horse past Sherborne House to show its soundness. Many people looked forward to the Horse Fair because they met friends from neighbouring villages who walked over, plus, the men who brought the horses travelled the country and they brought something of the wider outside into Bampton.

Nik Stanbridge

Horse Fair. Horses on Church Green

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The annual horse fair in Bampton. These horses are in Church Street. Note that both men and women wore hats and ladies' clothes were generally down to their ankles.

Nik Stanbridge

Newspaper August 29th 1930. Report on Fair with Horse Fair

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Newspaper August 29th 1930. Report on Fair with Horse Fair

Nik Stanbridge

img368 J Clark butcher, Horse Shoe, Horse Fair

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Scene of the horse fair in Bridge Street outside the Horse Shoe Inn and the butchers shop run by J Clark. It must have been taken well before 1925 because the Horse Shoe was gutted by fire that year and in 1925 it was owned by Percy Hughes who also had the butchers shop with his name over the door and on the east side of the building. Hurdles placed over the ground floor windows were to stop the horses from sticking their heads through the windows. Horses with a white spot on their rumps have been sold.

Nik Stanbridge