The Bampton Beam used to be produced three times a year. This issue is from April 2002. The topics covered and the advertisers include:-

ARTICLES AND NOTICES
Parish Council and District Council Elections 2nd May 2002
Photograph of flooding and Morris Dancers outside the Elephant and Castle 1932
Bampton Riddle
A Skateboard Park for Bampton?
Bampton Village Hall
Bampton ‘250’ Club list of winners
Blood Donor Session Cancelled – by Susan Phillips
Grand Plant Sale
Bampton Methodist Chapel by Linden Burley
The Burford Singers
Magpie Lane Concert in aid of Friends of St Mary’s
The Secret Gardens of Bampton by Ian McLintock
Easter Church Services at St Mary’s
Bampton Parish Council News by David Hawkins, Chairman
Village College
Support for the Post Office
Town Hall – Lift for Disabled
Parking on Pavements
Do Fouling
Golden Jubilee Celebrations
Council Tax Increases
Oxfordshire Special Conservation Award (OSCA) Success
Market Square Improvements
West Oxfordshire District Council News by Jonathan Phillips, District Officer
New Pavilion Manager – Ray Willis appointed
Parish Assembly Meeting
Bampton Classical Opera 19th and 20th July 2002
Farmers’ Market, Monday 6 May 2002
New Bus Timetables
A Bampton Museum? By Jo Lewington
Letters and emails to the Editor
The Bampton Recreation Ground
Bampton-in-the-Bush Cricket Club
The Pavilion
Bampton Youth Football Club
Bampton Archery Club
Short Mat Bowls
Bampton Town Football Club
The Horseshoes Football Club
Bampton Gun Club
Bampton Weightlifting Club
Bampton Badminton Club
Bampton Archery Club
Bampton Tennis Club
Society for the Protection of Bampton
Parent Partnership Oxfordshire
Could you be a Citizen Advocate?
Learning Grant Scheme
Sobell House Hospice Charity
Volunteer Link-Up
Age Concern, Oxfordshire
Remembrances of My Service in the US Army Part1: Panama to Bampton by Dick Ford, US Army 1941 – 1945
May Garlands by Ruth Wheeler
Spajers News by Don Rouse
Minor Injuries Unit at Witney Community Hospital
Notice Board
Still Too Fast – speeding cars
Macmillan Cancer Relief, Bampton, Faringdon and Carterton
The Children’s Society
Bampton Ladies Group
The Cancer Research Campaign
Bampton Youth Centre by Colin Allport
The Bush Club
Flower Guild of St Mary the Virgin, Bampton
Bampton Welfare Trust
Bampton Exhibition Foundation
Bampton Bridge Club
Community Lunches
Bampton Websites
Useful telephone numbers
Out and About – photographs of Bampton and the Bampton Gardening Club
Shillbrook Wood by Colin Allport
Answer to the riddle on front page – photograph of Francis Shergold and Fred Lomas
Thames Travel Bus Timetable
Letters to Auntie Beam
The Gardening Page by Edie Bindweed
The Gardening Club News
Out of Work Farmer Turned Agricultural Correspondent by Don Rouse
Two Very Committed Women of Bampton by Fenella Gray – Hilda Kent and Margaret Howes
Bampton Golden Jubilee Celebrations
David Cameron MP – advice centres across West Oxfordshire
Postwatch Representative – voice of the consumer, Derrick Millard
Bampton Spajers Golden Jubilee 50th Shirt Race
A Decade of Bampton Classical Opera by Gilly French and Jeremy Gray
The Bike Project by Jo Lewington
The Cookery Corner by Gilly French – entertaining on a budget
West Ox Arts
New West Ox Arts Administrator – Abigail Ballinger
Medieval In Minds – Alison Merry and Friends
North Oxfordshire College, Banbury, Exhibition
Exhibitions in the Robert Vesey Room, Bampton Library
An Eye on the East – Hugh Sowden
Gallery Life Drawing Classes
Oxfordshire Arts Week – Open Studio
Crossword
Town Hall Bookings
Calendar of Events
WODC Environmental Services

LIST OF ADVERTIZERS
Oxford Double Glazing, Summertown, Oxford
Grey Gables Garage
Londis, community shop
Garden Trading Company
The Morris Clown
Bampton Fax Bureau at Emmies Newsagents
Cotswold Electronics, TV, Video, Audio, Microwave repairs
Lynwood Leisure Buildings Ltd
Bampton Cars
The Horseshoe Inn
N Nurden, Motor Body Repairs
Patrick Strainge, Butchers
Philippa Rayne, osteopath, Fiona Farmer physiotherapist and Lesley Mellin, reflexologist and aromatherapist
Danetree, veterinary surgeons, Faringdon
E Taylor & Son, Funeral Directors, Carterton
Curtain Choice
N J Woodley, building maintenance
Temples, DIY, Ironmongery, Paint, Wood, Cement, Sand, Gravel, Toys, Gifts and Candles
A Simmonds, The Old-Fashioned Village Store
Andrew Bowman, Master Thatcher
Tony Hughes, scissor sharpening
The Pitstop and Oxford Carb Services
The Elephant & Castle
The Robert and Doris Watts Residential & Nursing Home, Carterton
Pellmans, solicitors, Eynsham
The Flower Mill
Foxbury Farm, Brize Norton
The Appliance Doctor
Little Chicks Childminders
Live-in Home and Pet Minding Service – Jacqueline and Merv
Don Rouse Cars
Abbey Properties Estate Agents
The Romany Inn
Electric Vehicles Ltd
Domino Menswear, Witney
R Cooper, Builders, Painters, Decorators, Carpentry, Joinery, Dry Stone Walling
The Standlake Garage
Bojangles Hairdressers
Bodytalk, remedial sports massage

Doug Read OBE (he gained the OBE for services to ploughing) was a huge fan of classic cars and owned several over the years. These are four of them and show

1. Trojan Tourer 1924 model owned by Doug Read. Douglas Read driving, passengers David Hunt, Bill Bullock and Geoff Hunt
2. Photograph of a Riley Monaco in 1933
3. Photograph of MG Model J.2. 1932 in 1948.
4. Photograph of MG Model T.A. 1937 driven by his wife Sally (nee Raymond) in 1953 (Sally was buried in Nov 2020)

This is one of the earliest photograph of the Bampton Morris Men taken in 1897, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year.
The dancers are
George Wells/Taylor
Thomas William Tanner
Joseph Rouse
Robert Dixey
George Dixey
James Dewe
Charles Henry Tanner, ragman
Henry Radband, sword carrier
William Nathan Wells, fool, known as Jingy
Richard Decimus Butler, musician

The Bampton Beam used to be produced 3 times a year. This issue is from December 2003. The topics covered and the advertisers include:-
ARTICLES AND NOTICES
Save Our Post Office
Renovation Work in the Market Square
Affordable Housing Needs Survey- questionnaire enclosed
Bampton Village Hall
Bampton ‘250’ Club list of recent winners
St Mary’s, Bampton 21 December, St Beornwald’s Day concert, ‘A European Christmas’
Christmas Services at the Methodist Chapel, St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Carterton and St Mary’s Bampton
Bampton Parish Council News by David Hawkins, Chairman
Affordable Housing Survey
Local Plan Comments
More Work Units in Bampton
Market Square Improvements
Traffic Calming Build-outs
Skateboarding on the Tennis Courts
Protective Clothing
Insurance Liabilities
‘No-one’s’ Land – next to No 18 The Pieces
Poor Drainage by the Surgery
Annual Fair
Recycling Bins
Parish Press Briefing September 2003
Free legal advice over the telephone – Community Legal Advice Service
The West Oxfordshire Nightstop and Prevention Project
Strengthening Industry Links – free training for voluntary and community groups
Training Opportunities – free to voluntary sector organisations
Funding for Children’s Projects
Volunteers needed for The League of Friends of the Churchill Hospital
District Councillors’ Reports
Bampton Fire Station by Mark Booty
New Licensing Laws
New Road Proposals
Housing Needs Survey by Jonathan Phillips
Proposed Bampton Housing Site – reply from West Oxfordshire District Council
Courtesy on the Roads
Age Concern Oxfordshire, City and County
Bampton Tennis Club
Memories of Bampton by Bill Gibson
Bampton Library
Letters and emails to the Editor
Photograph taken circa 1950 outside The Swan, Bampton, with Traction Engine ‘Pandora’ and David Hunt, John Bond, John Quick and Emmie Sollis
Bojangles, our village hairdressing salon expands
Bampton Welfare Trust
Bampton Environmental Watch Group by Ralph Norman
Notice Board
The Bush Club
Bampton Welfare Trust
Bampton the Way it Was, written by Mrs Freda Bailey
Unusual handmade Christmas gifts and crafts sale held by the Transrural Trust
Christmas Concert in aid of Bridewell Organic Gardens
Bampton Youth Centre
Old Birthday Cards Recycled
Out and About – photographs of The Gardening Club Autumn Show, The Gardening Club Goes to Scotland – A Week in Inverness, Remembrance Day and Children in Need Day
The Children’s Society
Bampton Bridge Club
Bampton Ladies Group
Bampton Exhibition Foundation
Cancer Research – Bampton Branch
Feel Good Factor – Volunteer Link-up
The Carers Centre
Bampton French Book Club
Useful Telephone Numbers
Bampton Museum exhibitions
The Bampton Gardening Club – AGM and Proposed Outings for 2004
The Trophy Winners of the Autumn Show
BBC Radio Gardeners’ Question Time – Witney Corn Exchange
The Bampton Classical Opera by Gilly French
Shillbrook Wood by Colin Allport
Out of Work Farmer Turned Agricultural Correspondent by Don Rouse
Spajers News by Don Rouse
The Bampton Mummers
Society for the Protection of Bampton
West Ox Arts, various exhibitions
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Robert Vesey Room Opening Hours
All Jigged Out – an evening of foot-tapping music by Celtic jazz-funk band
The WOA Stair Lift Appeal
Gallery Life Drawing Classes
Bampton Primary School by Richard Pitt, Parent Governor
Slow Living, A New Society for Bampton
Crossword
Town Hall Bookings
Calendar of Events
WODC Holiday Refuse and Recycling Collection Timetable
Samantha Dickson Research Trust Appeal
LIST OF ADVERTIZERS
Matthew Shaw – Handyman
Roger F J Kerswill Photography
Pellmans, solicitors, Eynsham
Systems & Solutions – computer shop
Gray’s Taxis
The Morris Clown
Cotswold Bed & Breakfast
The Appliance Doctor
Bampton Fax Bureau at Emmies Newsagents
Philippa Rayne, osteopath, Fiona Farmer physiotherapist and Lesley Mellin, reflexologist and aromatherapist
E Taylor & Son, Funeral Directors, Carterton
Curtain Choice
The Pitstop and Oxford Carb Services
The Robert and Doris Watts Residential & Nursing Home, Carterton
W I Markets, Masonic Hall, Witney
N J Woodley, building maintenance
Temples, DIY, Ironmongery, Paint, Wood, Cement, Sand, Gravel, Toys, Gifts and Candles
A Simmonds, The Old-Fashioned Village Store
Andrew Bowman, Master Thatcher
Tony Hughes, scissor sharpening
DIY Livery, Calais Oak Farm, Bampton
A Bonner, Carpenter/Handyman
Grange Photographic
The Post Office
The Cotton Club
The Horseshoe Inn
Patrick Strainge, Butchers
Bampton Cars
Danetree, veterinary surgeons, Faringdon
N Nurden Motor Body Repairs
P & S Builders
Lynwood Leisure Buildings Ltd
Personal Training – Gail Booth
Oxford Double Glazing, Summertown, Oxford
Grey Gables Garage
Londis, community shop
Logs for sale ring George
Witney Lakes Resort
Domino Menswear, Witney
R Cooper, Builders, Painters, Decorators, Carpentry, Joinery, Dry Stone Walling
The Standlake Garage
Bojangles Hairdressers
Bodytalk, remedial sports massage
Abbey Properties Estate Agents
The Romany Inn
Electric Vehicles Ltd

Adrian Simmonds ad in The Beam Nov 2007

Tony Hughes ad in The Beam Nov 2007, sissor sharpener

Albert and Mary Elizabeth Townsend and family (Castle View Farm) birth dates

Albert Townsend in his 80s