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Horse Fair seen outside the Wheat Sheaf Inn in Bridge Street

  • BCA - 2019.2061
  • Item
  • first half of twentieth century

This is a photograph of the Horse Fair taken outside the Wheat Sheaf Inn in Bridge Street. Note the man collecting the horse manure off the road which was prized in all vegetable gardens.

Bampton Community Archive

Fair in the Market Square

  • BCA - 2022.3447
  • Item
  • 2022

A fair was held in the Market Square at the same time as the Horse Fair. The square is filled with stalls which continue on down High Street. The sign 'Robinson Cheap Butcher' can be seen in the square.

Nik Stanbridge

Horse Fair & fair across the west side of the town hall

  • BCA - 2022.3448
  • Item
  • 2022

Horse fair and fun fair seen outside the west side of the Market Square. It would also have filled the Market Square. The Inn at the top left of the photograph is the Lamb, known by locals as The Tree because of the large Ash tree growing outside it. The Inn was completely demolished in 1960 to make way for building the Market Square Garage. The sign for the Talbot hotel shows the landlord to be W Norman. Almost every man wears a hat.

Nik Stanbridge

Horses lined up outside Thompson's grocery shop

  • BCA - 2022.3449
  • Item
  • 2022

Horse Fair outside the Talbot. Several carts outside Thompson's the high class grocers. Note everyone, young and old, is wearing a hat of some sort.

Nik Stanbridge

Horse Fair outside Horse Shoe pub (pre 1925)

  • BCA - 2022.3452
  • Item
  • 2022

Scene of the horse fair in Bridge Street outside the Horse Shoe Inn and Percy Hughes' butchers shop. It must have been taken before 1925 because the Horse Shoe was gutted by fire that year. Hurdles placed over the ground floor windows were to stop the horses from sticking their heads through the windows. Horses with a white spot on their rumps have been sold.

Nik Stanbridge

Horse Fair on Church Green in the rain

  • BCA - 2022.3451
  • Item
  • 2022

Horse Fair on Church Green in the rain. Horses sold on the green were considered suitable to be pit ponies and the Welsh miners knew to come to this part of Bampton for the pit ponies. The Plain tree just right of centre is now a huge tree (2014).

Nik Stanbridge

Horse Fair outside Horse Shoe pre 1925

  • BCA - 2022.3441
  • Item
  • 2022

Photograph of the Horse Fair looking west down Bridge Street. Percy Hughes was the licensee and he also had the butcher's shop next to the Horse Shoe inn. There was a devastating fire at the inn in 1925 and the building was gutted and rebuilt in its present position. Note the window protection of hurdles to stop the horses putting their heads through the glass. White discs on the horses' rumps show they have been sold. There is a large group of horses tethered outside the high wall that faces Church View. Note the car outside the butchers shop.

Nik Stanbridge

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