Bampton Community Archive

A. Simmonds advert

BCA - 2022.3909
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1984

Advertisement in the Witney Gazette for Mr Simmond's shop

Janet Westman

Duttons Advert in Witney Gazette 1984

BCA - 2022.3912
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1984

Advert in Witney Gazette 1984 Duttons Shop in Bridge Street
Selling Wine, Beers, Soirits, Fruit and Vegetable.

Janet Westman

Wilsons Estate Agent Advert in Witney Gazette 1984

BCA - 2022.3919
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1984

Wilsons Estate Agent Advert in Witney Gazette 1984

Janet Westman

Patrick Hook, director of PD Hook

BCA - 2021.3179
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2021

Patrick Hook, director of PD Hook

Nik Stanbridge

Tom & Sylvia Papworth in their Newsagents 2003

BCA - 2022.3384
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2003

Tom and Sylvia Papworth in their newsagents shop on Bridge Street in 2003

Janet Rouse

Bampton Video Club, Bushey Row

BCA - 2021.2557
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late 1980s to 1991

This video club shop was well used and its demise was brought about when the local little supermarket began renting films and it was just too easy to get a film from the supermarket while buying other items.
It was a special outing to rent a film from this shop in Bushey Row and a few people collected the posters that used. Now a film can be downloaded something of the magic of making the special effort to go out and rent a copy has gone.

Bampton Community Archive

Fenella Gray's history of the Community Shop

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July 2012

This article was written by Fenella Gray in the summer of 2012 where she documents the history of the Community Shop up to that point.
In 2008 the Archive made a film about the Community Shop up to that point. For a while, the shop had to close because the owners of the premises felt the storage facility at the back was a fire hazard but happily, the shop re-opened not too long after next door but one in Rosemary Lane with much improved facilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hkz-LOLJmk This is the link to the 2008 film made by the Archive

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