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Coach outing from Bampton c1933

  • BCA - 2019.1950
  • Item
  • c1933

This was a coach out from Bampton with many members of the Green family, all named on the photograph

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St Mary's choir boys on an outing to Southsea in 1947

  • BCA - 2017.1100
  • Item
  • Item 1947

In 1947 no girls were allowed in the choir at St Mary's which was quite normal in most churches at that time. In the summer of 1947 these 9 choirboys were taken on an outing to Southsea as a treat.

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St Mary's seen from Sandford Field

  • BCA - 2019.2153
  • Item
  • 1950s

This view of St Mary The Virgin Church was taken looking across Sandford Field, probably in the 1950s but could be ten years earlier.

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Non-stop tunes for floral fun in Clanfield

  • BCA - 2019.2183
  • Item
  • 1978

John Chipperfield usually has a page in the Witney Gazette where he recalls events in times past. This item recalls the time in 1978 when Susan Morris, pictured at the organ in Clanfield Church played for 10 hours taking turns with John White and John Goodrun. It was to accompany the Flower Festival in the church. Susan is still playing at Clanfield (2019)

In 1978 the vicar looked after both Bampton and Clanfield churches. By 1970, the vicar of the time lived in the vicarage in Bampton and was responsible for the churches not only of Clanfield and Bampton but Lew, Aston and Shifford as well.

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AGM of St Mary's plus Clanfield, Aston, Lew and Shifford churches

  • BCA - 2020.2496
  • Item
  • April 1983

This cutting is from April 1983 and records the basic details from the AGM of the group of five churches which are Clanfield, Bampton, Lew, Aston and Shifford. The vicar was Andrew Scott and he had just completed his first year

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Dr Alan Gaydon's photographs of St Mary's

  • BCA - 2017.1080
  • Item
  • 1990

Dr Alan Gaydon was a churchwarden at St Mary's for several years. He photographed the church from inside to out, ground level to the roof and recorded the restoration of the top of the spire and re-guilding of the cockerel on the top.

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Repair of the church steeple May 1995

  • BCA - 2019.2233
  • Item
  • May 1995

In May, 1995, the top of the steeple of St Mary's was repaired and a new mounting for the weather vane was put on. While the vane was down it was re-gilded. These are the two men who did the work.

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