Mrs Edith Foreshew from Wisteria (then a bungalow fashioned from the old school kitchen and dining room before the Horsa building were put up in the playground in 1947) Church View, was a member of the RBL and Mothers’ Union. She helped her sister Emmie in the paper shop sometimes.
Miss Dorothy (Dor) Graeme Thomson lived in Cheyne Lane. She ran an excellent organic vegetable garden after the war when she and Kate Wylie lived in Beam Cottage (it was not surrounded by houses then). She was a county councillor, president of the West Oxfordshire Arts Association and chairman of school governors. She is talking with Norman Gregory who married Merle Hobbs who taught several generations of children in Bampton. They moved to Henley-in-Arden. Norman was a churchwarden.
Mrs Rhona Hughes Owens from Rosemary House in the Market Square, wife of the retired headmaster of the school in Church View, was on the church council and was an organiser with the Darby & Joan club. She is helping Wendy Crowley out of the car.
The doctors at Bampton surgery in 1984. Dr Robert Landray from Grange Cottage did much to help WOAA (West Oxfordshire Arts Association). Dr Matthew Perry lived in Queen Street, was a youth club organiser. Dr Mackenzie, lived in Carterton. Dr Alan Cole lived in Landells and helped with W.O.F.C.