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Archaeological Dig at RAF Brize Norton

  • BCA - 2023.4092
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  • 2022

Newspaper Cutting about a dig on the Brize Norton Airfield which has uncovered several different types of aircraft bits from 45 German aircraft captured by the Allies in 1945 and taken to the base for testing, and USA aircraft from the time that the USAF were based at Brize in 1950's. These will be displayed at the RAF Brize Norton Heritage Centre

Janet Westman

Peter Davis and his exhibition in the Old Grammar School about Witney Airfield 2015

  • BCA - 2019.1942
  • Item
  • summer 2015

Witney Gazette June 24th 2015.

Peter Davis from Church Street put on a detailed and very interesting exhibition for the Bampton Community Archive in the Old Grammar School, Church Close about the Witney Airfield. The only suggestion of an airfield in the area now is in the names of three local roads, De Havilland Way, Range Road and Richard Jones Road.

Damaged Spitfires and Hurricanes aircraft damaged during WWII were serviced here. The airfield was important in both WWI and WWII. It opened in 1918 and closed in 1951.

The site was used as an RAF training unit, a base for tennis, horse racing and motorcycle speedway as well as for Witney and Oxford Aero Club and Witney Aeronautical College.

The catalogue of this exhibition, full of really interesting photos of the airfield is still on sale in the Vesey room.

Bampton Community Archive

Exhibition of WW1 held in Vesey Room

  • BCA - 2022.3735
  • Item
  • February 2004

Public looking at exhibits of WW1 memorabilia held in Bampton Museum Vesey room 2004

Janet Westman

Celebrating the home coming of Yvette Bovington's son Pierre from the Falklands war

  • BCA - 2021.2626
  • Item
  • 1982

Pierre Bovington, the son of Yvette is welcomed back home from the Falklands War in 1982. In the photograph are

  1. Herbert Lock, son of Bill
  2. Ron Hickman – butcher
  3. Henry Willis
  4. Betty Lock
  5. Yvette Bovington
  6. Pierre, Yvette’s son back from Falklands
  7. Billy Mathews
  8. Jane Willis
  9. Mrs Betty Hickman, the butcher’s wife

Bampton Community Archive

Airman, Reg Smith, married Albert Radband's sister, Beryl Joan Radband.

  • BCA - 2019.1959
  • Item
  • 1950s

Airman, Reg Smith, married Albert Radband's sister, Beryl Joan Radband.
He was the brother of twins Peggy and Dolly.
Godfather of Jamie Wheeler.
Marion Paintin said "Joan and Reg had two children Linda and Michael who married my sister Susan and they live at Brading on the Isle of Wight."
Lyn Dunsby said "Linda lives in Lowestoft. She keeps in touch with my mum (Ruth Wheeler.) Joan was my mum's friend but we always called her Aunty Beryl as that was her other name."

Bampton Community Archive

Clothing Appeal Poster for Liberated Europe

  • BCA - 2022.3734
  • Item
  • 1945

Poster asking for Clothing Donations for Liberated Europe,
Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
War Charities Act 1940
Printed by Hall the Printer Littlegate Oxford

Janet Westman

Instructions for wearing the ribbon; WWII medal

  • BCA - 2017.1090
  • Item
  • 1939-1945

This letter and piece of ribbon was sent to Dor Thompson, World War Two and explains how the ribbon should be used with the medal.

Bampton Community Archive

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