44 page PDF with Handwritten text and typed transcribe of the play which has been passed down through generations, and a list of the players for 1972. in the Mummers Play, together with Newspaper cuttings44 pages of original handwritten script and typed copy, together with photographs of members practising at University Farm, Lew in 1972. Father Christmas…………. . Don Rouse* Saint George ……………. . Roy Hewett The Turkish Knight…………. Arnold Woodley The Doctor…………….… Don Rouse Robin Hood………………. Trevor Hewett Little John………………... Ted Hunt Royal Aprussia King …………Roy Hewett Slasher, The Soldier Bold………Arnold Woodley Jack Finney…………………Trevor Hewett Old Tom the Tinker…………...Ted Hunt
Standing in for Martin Hewett who played this part on Christmas Eve.Recorded at a rehearsal in the old chapel at University Farm, Lew. 1972
Very interesting Obituary for Lord Donoughmore, published in The Times on Friday 9th May 2025 which details his life and achievements. The Earl of Donoughmore, doctor and businessman, was born on August 8, 1927. He died on April 25, 2025, aged 97. When he retired he moved to Bampton with his wife, Sheila, to be near Oxford’s John Radcliffe infirmary, because of her illness He operated a home dialysis machine until she could receive a kidney transplant. He succeeded to his father’s titles in 1981 and sat in the House of Lords under the UK peerage Viscount Hutchinson, contributing to health debates but losing his seat after the House of Lords Act 1999 restricted the number of hereditary peers. He became vice-president of St Luke’s Hospital, Oxford, and chaired Bampton parish council and other local charities. He raised funds to create the three-acre Bampton recreation ground and build its pavilion, saving the local church by finding over £400,000 to replace the roof. Viscount Suirdale, Hely Hutchinson Perdio "personal radio"
Mrs Sarah Wearne of Bampton kindly agreed that her account of the history of the Bampton War Memorial published in Vol 3. No 1 of the Bampton Beam in April 1988 could be reproduced. Entitled Bampton War Memorial and War Graves, and contains the following information: References to William Wheeler. Arthur George Martin, Thomas Wells and Sidney Clark, Daniel Skinner, Thomas Gillett, George and William Poole, Thomas and John Wells, James and Charles Cripps. Walter and Alfred Lay, William Morton, Walter Greenfield Lindsey Conveyance for the upkeep of the Memorial National Inventory of War Memorials Application Forms for membership of the British Legion Conveyance for the upkeep of the Memorial National Inventory of War Memorials Members of British Legion Mr Standley Smith Philip Shaw Gordan Shute Peter Anson Smith Dr Bernard Rose John Parrish Alistair G Newing Major John Alvey William Henry Challinor Mayhead A.F Munford W J Hastie Frederick James Loxton J.C.A. Edgell M.I. HallMr J Curley James Patriuck Dunstan J.F.G. Coles Reginald James ChambersG A Bishop Rev John Paul Burrough A C Newport Thomas Alexander Ritchie G Timms Robert Asgill Colvile Col MWT Roberts OBE Arthur Beckley Royston Shergold Yvette Helene Brown Bryan Deane Article on Invasion of Madagascar and a sketch Map Leaflet and Letters from Right hon Douglas Hurd and Peter Smith Ref: War Pensions
This shop was originally the premises of Mr Money, Boot and Shoemaker in the High Street. After Mr. Money's retirement, Mrs Francis Henley rented the shop for her daughter , Hazel, to run as a boutique. It was later rented by Mona Wilkins whose daughter also ran it as a boutique. It was finally run by Julia Rouse, daughter of Don and Mary, as The Farmhouse Pantry .
These photos show a selection of businesses that are no longer available to the residents: Angela John Antiques, Health Matters, Barclays Bank, John Temple’s Hardware Shop, The Market Square Garage and Showroom where can be seen the clock that originally graced the Town Hall and The Farmhouse Pantry which had previously been a boutique and before that Mr Money ran his shoe maker and repair shop from that premises.
Mrs Bliss, widow of Colonel Bliss, spent her remaing days at Bampton House. Percy Bowerman was her chauffeur and would drive her around the village in her green Morris Minor. When she died, Percy inherited the Morris Minor.
Newspaper report about refurbishment of the Old Grammar School. Community groups in Bampton had spent years fundraising to upgrade the Building, used as the Cottage Hospital in the hit TV series Downton Abbey. The 17th Century building already housed the village library and archive, plus a small shop, renovation work was to start December 2020. and it was scheduled to open in Spring 2021. West Oxfordshire District Council’s approved a £48,750 grant for Bampton Community Archive (BCA), owned by the Bampton Exhibition Foundation, who themselves made a ‘substantial contribution’ to the project. But the BCA has raised more than £50,000 plus grants, including almost £38,000 in £1 donations through the Bampton Mile appeal. This aim to collect one mile of £1 coins, which laid flat around the Downton Abbey Location Tour would raise £71,527.
