Extract from Kelly's Directory listing private residencies, occupations and organisations of Bampton in 1935.

Photograph showing a party of Methodist members going on an outing standing in front of bus.
Names have been added to the second copy as follows
Eva Mary Portlock
Mrs Portlock
Dora Townsend
Mrs Townsend
Ted Kitchen
Mrs Smith and Son
Polly
Aggie Beckett
Mrs Bishop
Cecil Robinson
Bert Whitlock

2 photos with writing on back of John Clarke born 1937
Showing Fancy Dress and school photos
attended Bampton School

Andrew McCabe sent the Archive this photograph. It is of his parents' wedding, James McCabe and Olive Peacock, probably about 1950.

Doug Read OBE (he gained the OBE for services to ploughing) was a huge fan of classic cars and owned several over the years. These are four of them and show

1. Trojan Tourer 1924 model owned by Doug Read. Douglas Read driving, passengers David Hunt, Bill Bullock and Geoff Hunt
2. Photograph of a Riley Monaco in 1933
3. Photograph of MG Model J.2. 1932 in 1948.
4. Photograph of MG Model T.A. 1937 driven by his wife Sally (nee Raymond) in 1953 (Sally was buried in Nov 2020)

Newspaper article in Oxford mail mentioning local pubs. In Bampton, The Malt Shovel and Elephant and Castle; The Strickland Arms in Ducklington and The Horse and Jockey in Black Bourton, The Plough at Alvescot, and the Lamb at Filkins. John Kent, 85, was the Landlord of the Malt Shovel for 34 years, he originally came from Suffolk and was a gamekeeper in Lincolnshire and Bradwell Grove. The Malt Shovel was in Lavender Square and there is an inscription on the chimney showing the date of 1659. It used to be a Malt house. The Elephant and Castle in Bridge Street was about 350 years old and had a thatched roof at this time (1957), the landlord was Clarence Dalton, ex RAF, who had another pub in London, The Prince of Orange at Greenwich. In 1957, the Landlord of the Talbot Hotel, an old coaching inn in Market Square, was a Mr Flood, and the inn itself was about 500 years old. The New Inn (now Morris Clown) was also a coaching Inn and the landlord was W.F. Wagner. The landlord of the Horse and Jockey at Black Bourton was Mr Alan George Burgess and the landlord of The Plough at Alvescot was Mr Leonard Killick, and the landlord of the Lamb at Filkins was Cyril Clements.

The wedding of George Frederick Lomas and Lillian Frances Ody at St Mary The Virgin, Bampton c1938. They lived in Belgrave Cottages, Church Street until the late 1990s when Fred, then a widower moved to a bungalow in Manor View.

Photograph of Bampton Children enjoying a show or pantomime in the WI Hall (Village Hall) in 1963.
The children are numbered in the second photo and named as follows:

1. Angela Brooks
2. ?
3. Patricia Preston
4. Lyn Beckley
5. Esther Green
6. Raymond Bradley
7. Sharon Foreshew
8. Richard Shepherd
9. Shelagh Danford
10. Roy Clarke
11. Fenella Quick
12. Maureen Clarke
13. Andy Clarke
14. Ann Jackson
15. ?
16. Mrs Edie Foreshew
17. Jean Cole
18. Lorraine Barber
19. Francis Barber
20. Neil Anderson
21. Kevin Bradley
22. ?
23. Jenny Bishop
24. Teresa Taylor
25. Lyn Wheeler
26. Darryl Hirons
27. ?
28. Anthony Collett
29. Ann (Biz) Cole
30. Tish Cole
31. Dougie Forshew
32. Penny Shergold
33. Pearl Paintin
34. Bridget Shergold

Mr & Mrs Harry Sollis owned and ran the Swan Inn in Buckland road for many years. In the last few years, Mrs Sollis ran it as a widow. Emmie Papworth, nee Bishop was a relative and adored Mrs Sollis; Emmie is seen with her in two of these pictures and her son Tom is with them in one of them. Mrs Sollis eventually sold The Swan by auction October 1st 1964; it was bought by Tim Tomlins.

Photographs with names of children and mothers as follows:

1. Josephine Keyte,
2. Linda Smith
3. Jackie Cook
4. Graham Cook
5. Trevor Bradley
6. Freda Bradley
7. Cheryl Becket
8. Violet Becket
9. Shane Becket
10. Fenella Quick
11. Sheila Danford
12. Sharon Forshew
13. Tish Cole
14. Biz Cole