- BCA - 2022.3713
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- 1950s
Wide angle photo of Beam Cottage. Dor Thomson and family (including Julie and Roger Powell)
Nik Stanbridge
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Wide angle photo of Beam Cottage. Dor Thomson and family (including Julie and Roger Powell)
Nik Stanbridge
Wedding of Olive Peacock & James McCabe
Andrew McCabe sent the Archive this photograph. It is of his parents' wedding, James McCabe and Olive Peacock, probably about 1950.
Bampton Community Archive
Conveyance of South Terrace and Wedding Cert. Joan Willmer and Ernest Pocock
Marriage Certificate of Ernest Allen Pocock of Yew Tree Farm, Clanfield and Joan Barnard Willmer of Friars Court , Clanfield.
Their Fathers Allen William Pocock and Richard Newman Willmer were both farmers.
They married at the Methodist Chapel in Clanfield AR Hopkins, was Minister and Harry A Steptoe was Registrar. 1951.
Abstract of the title of Mrs Mary Elizabeth Willmer dated 1959 and Conveyance of South Terrace, Weald - a piece of land where a group of 6 cottages once stood.
Janet Westman
'Grannys' sales catalogue March 20th & 21st 1952
'Grannys' sales catalogue March 20th & 21st 1952
Nik Stanbridge
Classic cars owned by Doug Read. Models 1924 to 1953
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
Bampton Community Archive
John Kent, Landlord of the Malt Shovel, and other landlords and pubs
Newspaper article in Oxford mail mentioning local pubs. In Bampton, The Malt Shovel and Elephant and Castle; The Strickland Arms in Ducklington and The Horse and Jockey in Black Bourton, The Plough at Alvescot, and the Lamb at Filkins. John Kent, 85, was the Landlord of the Malt Shovel for 34 years, he originally came from Suffolk and was a gamekeeper in Lincolnshire and Bradwell Grove. The Malt Shovel was in Lavender Square and there is an inscription on the chimney showing the date of 1659. It used to be a Malt house. The Elephant and Castle in Bridge Street was about 350 years old and had a thatched roof at this time (1957), the landlord was Clarence Dalton, ex RAF, who had another pub in London, The Prince of Orange at Greenwich. In 1957, the Landlord of the Talbot Hotel, an old coaching inn in Market Square, was a Mr Flood, and the inn itself was about 500 years old. The New Inn (now Morris Clown) was also a coaching Inn and the landlord was W.F. Wagner. The landlord of the Horse and Jockey at Black Bourton was Mr Alan George Burgess and the landlord of The Plough at Alvescot was Mr Leonard Killick, and the landlord of the Lamb at Filkins was Cyril Clements.
Janet Westman
Helen Cadd wrote"The photo was posted over from America by Olive McCabe, nee Olive Peacock back when the photo was taken . Aunty Olive found the photo in a set of drawers she was clearing out.
Bampton Community Archive
Harry Pocock with his thrashing machine and tractor in 1958
Harry Pocock with his thrashing machine and tractor in 1958 driving out of Church Street into Broad Street. Edwin, Ruth and Joe Buckingham are on the tractor with him.
An invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, Agricultural and Thrashing Contractor to Alex Townsend of Ashtree Farm (in Weald Street) for threshing and baling @ £47 5s (£47.25p) but with a contra account of 2ctw of tater (potatoes), 2 men combing and 5 gallons of paraffin £8.11s.6d (£8.55½p) giving a bill of £38.13s.6d (£38.65½p) sent April 1959.
An invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, Agricultural and Thrashing Contractor to Alex Townsend of Ashtree Farm (Weald Street) for threshing and baling sent December 1959.
Seen in the spring of 1963, talking with Marjorie Pollard in Cheapside, when we had huge drifts of snow.
Nik Stanbridge
Sales brochure for Calais farm January 15th 1959
Sales brochure for Calais farm January 15th 1959
Nik Stanbridge
The wedding of George Frederick Lomas and Lillian Frances Ody at St Mary The Virgin, Bampton c1938. They lived in Belgrave Cottages, Church Street until the late 1990s when Fred, then a widower moved to a bungalow in Manor View.
Bampton Community Archive