Series of Photos showing the last days of the Horsa Buildings annexed to The Old Bampton School Building. These were built in 1947, and were once The Canteen and Dining Room, The Domestic Science Block, The Woodworking Room, The Geography Room, The Head Master's Office.
Images showing views of the Shill Brook (once called Highmoor brook ), from Primrose Lane, Mill Green, Spring Cottages, Sandford Field, the Ford in Cheyne Lane supplied by Andrew Hilditch
Image of track across primrose field to Knapp's Farm, entering into Cheyne Lane and Primrose Lane, showing Primrose Cottages and spire of St Mary's. Originally a drover's road into Bampton via the Ford at Shill Brook
Image of young girl on seesaw in the Playing Field. New Road. View shows houses in Bushey Row. Adjacent to Fire Station, Field has been built over with Pembroke Close
Marriage Certificate of Ernest Allen Pocock of Yew Tree Farm, Clanfield and Joan Barnard Willmer of Friars Court , Clanfield. Their Fathers Allen William Pocock and Richard Newman Willmer were both farmers. They married at the Methodist Chapel in Clanfield AR Hopkins, was Minister and Harry A Steptoe was Registrar. 1951. Abstract of the title of Mrs Mary Elizabeth Willmer dated 1959 and Conveyance of South Terrace, Weald - a piece of land where a group of 6 cottages once stood.
Order of Funeral Service of Con de Hamel December 2009. Constance was born August 10th 1916 and she died November 20th 2009. During a long and very active and interesting career she was a continuity announcer for the BBC during WWII on the wireless as it was called then. Her life was very interesting and coincidentally this is a wonderful piece of social history. There is an interview with Con on YouTube . It is a sound recording not a video and is available on the following link https://youtu.be/xDIGBR6_IiI made February 11th 2005.
George Talbot the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, was the only son of Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Dacre. As a young man George saw military service under Protector Somerset in the ‘Rough Wooings’ in Scotland and he married Gertrude Manners, daughter of the 1st Earl of Rutland, by whom he had six children, although she died in 1566. In March 1568, he married Bess of Hardwick, the wealthy widow of Sir William Cavendish of Chatsworth, who was a year older than himself. The first creation of Earl of Shrewsbury occurred in 1074 for Roger de Montgomerie, one of William the Conqueror's principal counsellors. Roger thus became one of the most powerful magnates in England, ruling most of Shropshire and holding lands in eleven other counties, and included most of Bampton which continued to belong to the family through future generations. Roger was succeeded in 1094 by his younger son Hugh, his elder son Robert of Belléme succeeding to his lands in Normandy. On Hugh's death in 1098 the earldom passed to his brother Robert. More information about the Earls of Shrewsbury can be found in the pdf attached.
