Dora Townsend as a child sitting on a pig, 1927 when she lived at the Elephant and Castle. Her parents were Albert and Mary Elizabeth Townsend and she had older sister Ethel and Gladys and a brother Albert who was always known as either Son or Sonner
Dancers at Shipston on Stour June 23rd 1930. Arnold Buckingham. Billy Flux, Reg Tanner, Jim Buckingham, Bert Hunt, Vic Tanner, Ted Lay, Sam Bennet on fiddle
Newspaper cutting from 1930 with Photo of Dancers in the market square a double decker roadmaster is parked outside the Town Hall and the article refers to visitors arriving on omnibus from other villages
Flooding hit Bampton again May 16th 1932. The picture shows some people being given a piggy-back through the floods and two people being pulled in a pram.
Harry Pocock lived at No2 Broad Street and was the person who went around the farms in Bampton and out as far as a farm in Thrupp by Oxford to thrash the corn on farms before the days of the combine harvester.
This is Elsie Hughes with three boys and a girl. Elsie had 2 daughters, Mary and Sylvia and one son Jim, so I'm not sure who the 4 children are. She was married to Len Hughes and the last place they lived and worked was the garage and shop next to Cromwell House in Cheapside. The property is now a private dwelling called Exeter House.