May 29th 2016 Morris Dancing

• BCA - 2017.1109
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• May 29th 2016

The Bampton Traditional Morris men and Bampton Morris Men May 29th 2016 plus some of the visiting teams.

Bampton Community Archive

August 23rd 2015 an amazing orange sky

• BCA - 2017.1111
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• August 23rd 2015

A long line of cloud suddenly became bright orange as the sun went down.

Bampton Community Archive

Downton filming in Bampton April 23rd 2014

• BCA - 2017.1118
• Item
• April 23rd 2014

Downton Abbey was being filmed in Bampton again in April 2014. Most of the actors are very obliging, willing talking with the younger generation and several Bampton people are extras. The filming takes place immediately around, and sometimes in,...

Bampton Community Archive

Bampton Fire Brigade at Crystal Palace July 1907

• BCA - 2017.1130
• Item
• July 1907

Bampton Fire Brigade won many tournaments and they did well in July 1907 at Crystal Palace which is where this photograph was taken for a postcard

Bampton Community Archive

Picture postcard High St looking East from the Grange. To Miss K Phillips post stamp March 13th 1908

• BCA - 2017.1133
• Item
• March 13th 1908

Picture postcard of the High Street looking east from outside the Grange. Addressed to Miss K Phillips in Stanton Harcourt. The New Inn and Pembrey's department store can be see with the steeple of St Mary The Virgin in the background. Th...

Bampton Community Archive

Molly Rose & Mary Ellis, Spitfire Ladies of WWII have tree planted at RAF Brize Norton in their memory

• BCA - 2017.1137
• Item
• March 2017

During WWII many ladies from the ATA flew many types of aeroplanes, delivering them for the men to fly on active service and sometime acting as a taxi service to bring back ladies who had done the delivering. Two of those ladies were Molly Rose a...

Bampton Community Archive

Musicians with the Bampton Morris Men

• BCA - 2017.1142
• Item
• 1980s

Arnold Woodley squire of the Bampton Morris Men on the left playing the fiddle, Brendan Cassidy on fiddle in the centre and Frank Purslow on the right.

Bampton Community Archive

List of Fire Stations Fire Force 15 National Fire Service World War Two. Bampton Station D.2.Y.

• BCA - 2017.1146
• Item
• n/a

List of Fire Stations Fire Force 15 National Fire Service World War Two. Bampton Station D.2.Y.

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Oxfordshire County Council Election May 4th 2017. Flyers for Ted Fenton, Conservative

• BCA - 2017.1152
• Item
• May 2017

There were several candidates from other parties but only Ted Fenton of the Conservative party got flyers out to households in his area. Without access to the internet there was no way people could read about the other candidates. He represented...

Bampton Community Archive

Clanfield Angling Club protect the Thames bank from erosion by cattle

• BCA - 2017.1157
• Item
• March 2017

Cattle drinking directly from the river Thames have been causing erosion of the bank. Clanfield Angling Club with help from TOE2, Grundons Waste Management, BBOWT and the Environment Agency helped to save and restore the section of the bank at th...

Bampton Community Archive

Fly advertising Oxfordshire Art Weeks May 6th-29th 2017

• BCA - 2017.1161
• Item
• May 2017

Oxfordshire Art Weeks takes place each year. This flyer was posted to all households to say the art week would be May 6th-14th in South Oxfordshire, May 13th-21st in North Oxfordshire and May 20th-29th in Oxford City. There were to be 450 artist...

Bampton Community Archive

Bampton's Great Shirt Race 2017

• BCA - 2017.1165
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• May 27th 2017

This is the second set of 30 photographs of the 2017 Great Bampton Shirt Race.

Bampton Community Archive

Liz Leffman Lib Dem candidate flyer for June 8th 2017 General Election

• BCA - 2017.1168
• Item
• June 2017

A general election was called after just one year of The Conservatives being in power with a small overall majority. PM Teresa May thought she would increase her majority but her whole way of electioneering proved disastrous for the Conservatives...

Bampton Community Archive

Laetisia Carter, Labour candidate flyer for General Election June 8th 2017

• BCA - 2017.1172
• Item
• June 2017

A general election was called after just one year of The Conservatives being in power with a small overall majority. PM Teresa May thought she would increase her majority but her whole way of electioneering proved disastrous for the Conservatives...

Bampton Community Archive

Obituary. Squadron Leader (ret'd) Stuart Luff Pierce, MBE

• BCA - 2017.1175
• Item
• December 27th 2016

This obituary for Stuart Luff Pierce MBE was in the March issue of The Beam. Stuart was born in 1932 and died suddenly on December 27th 2016. Stuart and his wife Jesse made their home in Bampton in 1970. He was an active member of various chari...

Bampton Community Archive

Downton does Dallas

• BCA - 2017.1182
• Item
• May 16th 2017

This cutting from The Times newspaper May 16th 2017 suggests there is to be a film version of Downton Abbey with filming to start in September 2017. By July 22nd (the date of this entry on the website) nothing more has been heard and our Parish C...

Bampton Community Archive

The Townsend family who lived at No4 Town House, High Street

• BCA - 2017.1187
• Item
• early C20th

At the start of the C20th the Townsend family ran a Cycle shop in the house now called No4 Town House, High Street. The photographs show mother Susan with her children Rita, Lucy Elizabeth, Colin. Colin was the father of Phyllis who you can see ...

Bampton Community Archive

View of High Street from The Grange to the Market Square early C20th

• BCA - 2017.1189
• Item
• early C20th

This picture was taken from the middle of the road outside The Grange looking up towards the Market Square very early in the twentieth century. The present day Morris Clown was then called The New Inn; originally it was The George.

Bampton Community Archive

Kit Jackson's photographs

• BCA - 2017.1192
• Item
• C20th

These photographs are all from Kit Jackson's collection. Kit took photographs for most of her adult life. There are several of her family members plus WWII soldiers probably billeted in Bampton, school classes from the 1970s when she worked...

Bampton Community Archive

SPAJERS Donkey Derby 2017 in Sandfords Field

• BCA - 2017.1195
• Item
• August 28th 2017

The SPAJERS (Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing) organise a Donkey Derby in Sandfords Field on August Bank Holiday Monday each year. It is one of their main fundraising events which enable them to take two coaches of senior citizen...

Bampton Community Archive

Death of Brenda Sapsford May 24th 2017

• BCA - 2017.1197
• Item
• May 24th 2017

Brenda Sapsford came to live in Bampton when she retired from being secretary to David Johnson, the NFU secretary in Witney. She was an active member of the WI in Bampton until its sad demise and she was also a very efficient Parish Clerk in Bamp...

Bampton Community Archive

Crime is up over the last 12 months from June 2016

• BCA - 2017.1198
• Item
• 12 months up to June 2017

The County's crime figures show Violence, Robberies and Burglaries are all up for the 12 months up to June 2017. In Cherwell and West Oxfordshire they are up by 12.5%. The article gives you much more information.

Bampton Community Archive

The Drinkwater family

• BCA - 2017.1207
• Item
• possibly 1950s

These two photographs are of the Drinkwater family, one a family wedding and the other one a family group. If anyone can give me names and dates please use the link to the Archive on the front page of this website by clicking on Bampton Community...

Bampton Community Archive

Certificates won by Bampton Fire Brigade in 1905, 1912 and 1921

• BCA - 2017.1211
• Item
• 1905-1921

Bampton Fire Brigade won the National Shield in Crystal Palace in 1904. Their skill continued as can be seen from these certificates awarded for wins in further competitions in 1905 and 1912 also at Crystal Place and 1921 in Ramsgate.

Bampton Community Archive

Bampton Morris Men, May 30th 2016

• BCA - 2017.1224
• Item
• May 30th 2016

This is the Bampton Morris Men side in Bampton dancing May 30th Bank Holiday 2016. Their fiddle players are Mathew Green, Squire supported by Trevor Hewitt. Gareth Knight is doing the broom dance. Mathew can be seen dancing a jig while playing ...

Bampton Community Archive

Switching on the Christmas Tree lights in the Market Square December 2nd 2016

• BCA - 2017.1227
• Item
• December 2nd 2016

A Christmas Tree has been put up in the Market Square for several years now and the switching on of the lights is marked with Carols, music, stalls, a pig roast and a sale of Crafts in the Village Hall.

Bampton Community Archive

Lead stolen twice from roof of St Mary's in 2017

• BCA - 2017.1230
• Item
• 2017

Lead was stolen from the north side of the aisle of St Mary's and the thieves came back for more about two weeks later. The lead was finally replace and water marked and a security system installed that would light up the roof and speakers w...

Bampton Community Archive

Women's Land Army teaching ladies how to milk in WWII

• BCA - 2017.1234
• Item
• 1939-1945

Hilda Kent joined the Women's Land Army in Witney. After she retired she used to make a display in the foyer of the Bush Club every Wednesday and it was something everyone looked forward to seeing. One week she did one about her Land Army w...

Bampton Community Archive

Castle View Farm c1971

• BCA - 2017.1239
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• c1971

These photographs are of Castle View farmhouse taken from various angle about 1971. One of the farm buildings was once a railway carriage. The entrance to the yard is closer to the house than it is today. The water courses around Mill Green had...

Bampton Community Archive

Stone, spiral stairs from the attic and the 1st floor of Ham Court farmhouse

• BCA - 2017.1241
• Item
• September 2010

The stone, spiral stairs come down from the attic and open into the room created a bathroom which faces east. The large windows in the bedrooms were once the top of open arched entrances to the grounds of the what is locally referred to as the ca...

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farmhouse, kitchen and west sitting room

• BCA - 2017.1245
• Item
• September 2010

These pictures show the kitchen and west facing sitting room. Please remember that Michael was packing up. Read the caption to each photograph for more details.

Bampton Community Archive

Ham Court farm buildings not connected to the big barn

• 2017.1246
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• September 2010

These farm buildings are not immediately adjacent to the big barn. Items are seen set out ready for auction in 5 days' time inside the big barn. A view of the big barn seen from part way up the drive from the road.

Bampton Community Archive

New shop opens in Bridge Street October 2017; The Cake Element Bakery

• BCA - 2017.1265
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• October 2017

The Cake Element Bakery is a new shop which opened in October 2017. It's in the right-hand side (seen from the road) of Duttons in Bridge Street.

Bampton Community Archive

Ros Altmann talks about possible effects if we vote for Brexit

• BCA - 2017.1269
• Item
• spring 2016

Several people and organisations posted their thoughts about the possible effects of voting for and against Brexit in June 2016. The flyer came from Ros Altmann who according to her leaflet thought voting to leave the EU would be very bad for all.

Bampton Community Archive

Should campanology (bellringing) be reclassified as a sport?

• BCA - 2017.1272
• Item
• February 2016

“In February 2016 the hot controversy raging in the pages of The Ringing World is whether bellringing should be classified as a sport. If physical activity is the criterion there’s no doubt. Was it not proved on Monday April 27th 1868, when the ...

Bampton Community Archive

Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942, by War Department Washington DC

• BCA - 2017.1273
• Item
• 1942

When American servicemen were sent over in 1942 to help with the war against the Nazis, they were issued with guidelines on how to behave and what to expect when they came to the UK. This booklet, here reproduced in hard back, is reproduced from ...

Bampton Community Archive

Dor Thomson's scrapbook from 1938 to 1946

• BCA - 2017.1275
• Item
• 1938-1946

This is a wonderful collection of memorabilia that was kept by Dor Thomson and covers the period just before WWII broke out, through the war and a short period after it. It gives a truly fascinating idea of what it was like to be a woman during W...

Bampton Community Archive

Making mosaic tiles at Bush Club c1995

• BCA - 2017.1284
• Item
• C1995

The Bush Club is now (2017) for anyone who wants to become a member but was originally set up for the retired people of Bampton, maximum of 40 with spare places offered to people of neighbouring villages. Activities have always been organised for...

Bampton Community Archive

Funeral program for Molly Daphne Rose Nov. 26th 1920 to October 16th 2016

• BCA - 2017.1286
• Item
• 1920 - 2016

This is the funeral program from the service in St Mary The Virgin church, Bampton for Molly Daphne Rose, November 26th 1920 to October 16th 2016. See entry 2017.1285 for information about Molly's war work in the ATA. See https://youtu.be/F...

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Filmed interviews with Bampton people by Bampton Community Archive

• BCA - 2017.1288
• Item
• 2006-2015

These 4 pages list the YouTube web address of the filmed interviews done by the Bampton Community Archive. They are with Dave Rose with Terry Rouse bellringing; Vera Elward talking about Busby's department store; A History of St Mary's ...

Bampton Community Archive

Torrential rains spoil August Bank Holiday Monday 1986

• BCA - 2017.1291
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• August 1986

Really heavy and persistent rains, the tail end of hurricane Charlie, caused the Donkey Derby on August Bank Holiday Monday 1986 to be postponed. However, the stall holders squeezed into the marquee determined not to let the weather make everythi...

Bampton Community Archive

First time Ride & Stride took place for the Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust. West Oxon Standard Aug 29th 1986

• BCA - 2017.1292
• Item
• August 1986

On Saturday September 6th 1986 the Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust organised the first ever Cycle Ride - in later years to Ride & Stride - to help raise money for churches in the county. Half the money raised by members of a church stay w...

Bampton Community Archive

Evacuee children in Bampton enjoying games at Weald Manor

• BCA - 2017.1298
• Item
• C1940

These children are all evacuees from Bow in London. Here, they are being given the fun of some games at Weald Manor.The young girl at the bottom front on the right is now Mrs Joyce Cotter, neé Chambers and the girl on the right of the middle row ...

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Sound file of Constant Billy being played in 1987

• BCA - 2017.1304
• Item
• 1987

This is a sound file of Constant Billy being played on the melodeon in 1987 for the Bampton Traditional Morris Men, early on Bank Holiday Monday while the dancers were in New Road.

Bampton Community Archive

Francis Shergold tells whose dancing style he copied

• BCA - 2017.1305
• Item
• 1987

Francis Shergold tells whose dancing style he liked very much and copied when he was learning to dance. Then we hear the Bampton Traditional Morris men dancing to Foggy Dew, one day in 1987. The recording lasts 3 mins.

Bampton Community Archive

William Nathan 'Jingy' Wells, playing his fiddle and a close look at his clothes

• BCA - 2018.1312
• Item
• first half nineteen hundreds

Jingy Wells, real name William Nathan Wells danced for many years and played the fiddle for even more. His first fiddle he made from a large corned beef tin for a sound box and a broom handle. He was completely self taught. After an eye infecti...

Bampton Community Archive

Brothers Colin and Robin Knight, Colin's grandson Matthew Howse, Morris dancers

• BCA - 2018.1316
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• 1980-2002

Colin Knight and grandson Matthew Howse and Colin's brother Robin, all Morris dancers. Paul Wixey and Rob Fidler are each in one of the photographs with Robin

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Cadet Flight Sergeant Frederick Gerring retired at age 21 on July 5th 1972

• BCA - 2018.1325
• Item
• July 5th 1972

Cadet Flight Sergeant Fred Gerring, son of Rose and Arthur Gerring retired at age 21 from No 2267 Bampton and Brize Norton Squadron, Air Training Corps, after 8 years of service. He had no choice because all cadets have to leave once they are 21 ...

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Alex Wixey side dancing in Stow-on-The-Wold May 11th 1986

• BCA - 2018.1328
• Item
• May 11th 1986

Some of these pictures were taken in Stow-on-The-Wold on May 11th 1986. I don't know where the ones taken by the white building, dancing on the flags are but if someone can tell me, I'll amend this entry.

Bampton Community Archive

Whit Monday Morris Dancing in Bampton 1986

• BCA - 2018.1331
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• 1986

These photograph record the Morris practice on the Sunday and then the dancing on Whit Monday in 1986 or both Alec Wixey's side and Francis Shergold's side.

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Downs Festival and Alec Wixey's Sunday Morris practice May 1980

• BCA - 2018.1332
• Item
• 1980

These pictures with taken in 1980 at the Downs Festival and at Alec Wixey's Sunday practice the day before Whit Monday

Bampton Community Archive

Bank Holiday Monday, Bampton 1993, both Shergold and Wixey sides

• BCA - 2018.1339
• Item
• 1993

Bank Holiday Monday, Bampton 1993, both Shergold and Wixey sides

Bampton Community Archive

John Honour Willmer Nov 11th 1920 to Aug 11th 2014

• BCA - 2018.1343
• Item
• 1920-2014

Richard Willmer arrived at Friars Court as a tenant farmer in 1917. He was a successful hay and straw merchant who, at one time, was one of the main hay suppliers to both Great Western Railways and the collieries in Wales. Richard married Mary Hon...

Bampton Community Archive

Isabel Dorothy Collins June 12th 1920 to December 12th 2011

• BCA - 2018.1348
• Item
• 1920 2011

Isabel and her husband George came to live in Bampton in the early years of WWII. They had bought Weald farm and moved into the main farmhouse with the farm and some years later they bought and moved into Greyshott house where Isabel lived for th...

Bampton Community Archive

Muriel Miriam Newman July 17th 1923 to February 23rd 2010

• BCA - 2018.1354
• Item
• 1923 2010

Muriel, or Midge as she was known to us in Bampton, was a member of the choir at St Mary's in Bampton, father of Graham Newman who married Janet Elward. She was a lovely lady and much missed by those of us who knew her in the choir.

Bampton Community Archive

Death announced of Nancy Irene Busby. October 2017

• BCA - 2018.1357
• Item
• 2017

The Busby family ran a department store in Bampton that included what today (January 2018) is the Pottery Shop on the corner of Bushey Row with High Street, Strawberry Cottage and Lesta House. One of the sons of the family was Alfred Busby and he...

Bampton Community Archive

Don Fidler, bagman for Arnold Woodley's Morris side

• BCA - 2018.1372
• Item
• 1980s

Don Fidler was Arnold Woodley's bagman for several years

Bampton Community Archive

A Bampton CE School Project called Bampton Through Time

• BCA - 2018.1377
• Item
• early 2000s

The children achieved a wonderful result with their research and the topics covered include:- a typical village; a changing settlement; an iron age settlement; archaeological evidence; the legend of St Frideswide; Domesday book; the manor house; B...

Bampton Community Archive

Demolition of the Market Square Garage and building of Thornberry Flats

• BCA - 2018.1381
• Item
• 1998 - 2001

Adrian Simmonds lived on the west side of the Market Square and took these photographs to document the demolition of the Market Square Garage and the building of Thornberry flats which are for sale to those who are 55 years plus. During the build...

Bampton Community Archive

The Elephant & Castle Inn in Bridge Street

• BCA - 2018.1383
• Item
• 1900 - 2009

These pictures give a flavour of the appearance of the Elephant & Castle through the twentieth century and on into the twenty first when it became a private dwelling. Starting with a time when transport was mostly horse-drawn, then with a bul...

Bampton Community Archive

Bampton Town Hall

• BCA - 2018.1388
• Item
• 1838

From the Witney Gazette February 28th 2018.“George and William Wilkinson, both born in Witney in the early 19th century, helped design key public buildings in the centre of Bampton that are still used to this day.Collected by archivists, pictures ...

Bampton Community Archive

Spring Gardens around Bampton in 2004

• BCA - 2018.1389
• Item
• 2004

These pictures were all taken in Bampton in the spring of 2004. They show the flowers popular at the time in both small gardens and manor gardens. Fashions in plants change over the years so it was felt worthwhile to record this time.

Bampton Community Archive

Village Appraisal 1966

• BCA - 2018.1394
• Item
• 1966

In October 1966 the planning officer for Witney Rural District Council, M W Robinson, produce his report on a Bampton Appraisal. The areas covered include the population size, (1,600) Character, the people, principal road connections, schools, op...

Bampton Community Archive

Village appraisal 1998

• BCA - 2018.1395
• Item
• 1998

This Bampton Village Appraisal was done in 1998. The areas covered include household data, how time is spent, education, housing and development, utilities and public services, health, social services and and community care, transportation, socia...

Bampton Community Archive

Postcards to and from home during WWI and WWII

• BCA - 2018.1398
• Item
• WWI and WWII

These postcards were sent during WWI and WWII. They are between the Townsend family who lived at the Elephant and Castle during WWI but across the road at Castle View Farm in WWII. There are cards to and from members of the Flux family who lived...

Bampton Community Archive

December 2003, gardens ready for Christmas and work in the Market Square

• BCA - 2018.1402
• Item
• December 2003

These are pictures of just a few gardens in December 2003. Some people have put outside Christmas decorations up, some have stone ornaments there all year round and major work is being done around the Town Hall.

Bampton Community Archive

Albert & Mary Elizabeth Townsend at the Elephant & Castle and later at Castle View Farm & their Family

• BCA - 2018.1416
• Item
• twentieth century

Sam Bennett sharpening a scythe. Sam played fiddle for Francis Shergold's Morris men at Whitsun. He lived in Warwickshire and walked to Bampton. He used to stay with Mr & Mrs Townsend at Castle View Farm and stayed for a while to work on...

Bampton Community Archive

'Rocky' Ernest Hunt

• BCA - 2018.1417
• Item
• 1980s

'Rocky', Ernest Hunt in the Elephant and Castle. Rocky was a much loved character in Bampton, always taking part in any event. He was known as Dicky to his family. When Ernie died, his birth certificate showed his real name was Ernest ...

Bampton Community Archive

Some of the Properties for sale during 2017

• BCA - 2018.1423
• Item
• 2017

These adverts from the Witney Gazette were taken from the Witney Gazette during 2017. There were other properties for sale but not advertised in the Witney Gazette.

Bampton Community Archive

Blacksmiths at Cromwell House, Cheapside late nineteenth and early twentieth century

• BCA - 2018.1430
• Item
• late nineteenth & early twentieth century

1. Seen with a horse and their families, the blacksmiths Townsend and Wheeler are outside their home, Cromwell House in Cheapside. The door to the right of the bay window has since been removed and the wall filled in.2. The blacksmith Mr Cripps...

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The Highway Code published by the Minister of Transport 1946

• BCA - 2018.1434
• Item
• 1946

On one level, this Highway Code booklet published in 1946 by the Minister of Transport with the authority of Parliament for the guidance and safety of all road users is amusing when viewed in the context of road users today, but on another level, ...

Bampton Community Archive

Local elections May 6th 2010

• BCA - 2018.1438
• Item
• May 6th 2010

Martin Barrett stood for the Bampton, Clanfield and Black Bourton ward, Paul Wesson stood as an Independent for Witney and Stuart Macdonald offered his services as the Green Party candidate for Witney. Flyers for all three candidates are in the ...

Bampton Community Archive

Shops and businesses in and around the Market Square

• BCA - 2018.1449
• Item
• 1884 to 2016

1k. Cheapside can be seen from outside the west side of the Town Hall. The date is pre-1907 because Eton Villas had yet to be built in place of the thatched building in the centre of the picture. The George and Dragon inn is there as is Goodman...

Bampton Community Archive

The Malt Shovel Inn

• BCA - 2018.1451
• Item
• 1960 to 2010

The Malt Shovel Inn was in Lavender Square and sold Belcher and Habgood's noted Ales & Stout. They also kept pigs and sold sausages and bacon and also vinegar from a barrel. Still called the Malt Shovel it is now a private dwelling with...

Bampton Community Archive

Kelly's 1895 directory

• BCA - 2018.1454
• Item
• 1895

POST, M.O. & T.O., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office. Thomas Wells Pembrey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Faringdon at 5.30 am & 3.30 pm; dispatched at 9.10 am & 8.30 pm (box closes at7.50 pm); dispa...

Bampton Community Archive

Arnold Woodley's scrapbook of the Pumpkin Club

• BCA - 2018.1455
• Item
• March 30th 1969 to Oct 24th 1997

Arnold Woodley started this scrapbook with newspaper cuttings which record its inception in March 1969. In 1979 he handed his scrapbook to Max Norman to continue adding items. In March 1969 The Pumpkin Club was formed. Meetings were held in The...

Bampton Community Archive

Book 1 of 4 by Terry Crowley recording Bampton people who do voluntary work in the community

• BCA - 2018.1458
• Item
• 1983

In 1983 Terry Crowley started a project to record with photographs the people who did voluntary work in the community. He made up four photograph albums with information written by each entry. These can be looked at in the Vesey room.The other a...

Bampton Community Archive

Book 3 of 4 by Terry Crowley recording Bampton people who do voluntary work in the community

• BCA - 2018.1460
• Item
• 1984-5

In 1983 Terry Crowley started a project to record with photographs the people who did voluntary work in the community. He made up four photograph albums with information written by each entry. These can be looked at in the Vesey room.The other alb...

Bampton Community Archive

Alice Puttock and 4 generations of her family

• BCA - 2018.1466
• Item
• 1943 and late C20th

Mrs Brookes wearing the cardigan, Alice Peacock her daughter, Olive is Alice's daughter and Mrs Brook's great grandson is Andrew McCabe. Mrs Brooks was the midwife and layer out! This picture was taken in 1965.Lance Sergeant Thomas Wil...

Bampton Community Archive

Concert programs in Bampton in 1900 and 1902

• BCA - 2018.1471
• Item
• 1900 1902

img853-4 2 pictures of the program for the Patriotic Concert of April 17th 1900. People taking part included Bampton String Band, Mr Staples-Browne, Dr Oates, Miss Edwards, Miss Gray and Miss Stephenson, Miss Mary Oates, Mr Edward Bond, Miss Maske...

Bampton Community Archive

Chris Timms, choirboy, sailor and fireman

• BCA - 2018.1478
• Item
• twentieth century

Chris Timms aged 17 in 1943 wearing Royal Navy uniform in the picture. The sound recording was made on April 15th 2004 and Christ talks about his time in the Navy in a mine sweeper.Chris Timms and friend Michael Hirons in Church View in 1933. No...

Bampton Community Archive

Service in the Market Square, early C20th

• BCA - 2018.1479
• Item
• early C20th

I was given these to pictures in digital format when I took over being Archivist, with no indication of who lent them to the Archive to scan, what the occasion was or the date. If anyone can help please contact the Archive via the link on the fro...

Bampton Community Archive

Colin Bathe, musician with the Bampton Morris Men

• BCA - 2018.1481
• Item
• 1972-2000

Colin Bathe was a musician with the Bampton Morris Men for many years, but occasionally he would dance. He also went to Bra in Italy with the Bampton Traditional Morris Men in 1980. He was very good friends with 'Curly', John Titchener...

Bampton Community Archive

Descendants of Emmanuel Bunce

• BCA - 2018.1490
• Item
• c1832 - 1998

This is the family tree of Emmanuel Bunce who had a son Daniel in 1858, so Emmanuel may have been born C1832. He married Hannah Merchant.Names in the family tree.Absolom Baker BishopBroughton ...

Bampton Community Archive

Descendants of Ernest Billie Agg and the Wheeler Family

• BCA - 2018.1491
• Item
• 1870 - 2001

This is the family tree beginning with Ernest Billie Agg b.1870 and his wife Louanna Baxter b.1865. Their daughter Edith Florence Agg b.1897 married James Wheeler b.1900 and this tree follows the Wheeler line.Names in this family tree.Agg ...

Bampton Community Archive

Descendants of Isaac Constable b.1818

• BCA - 2018.1495
• Item
• 1818 - 2016

This is the family tree of Isaac Constable b.1818 who married Susanna Griffin b.1817. The grandson of Isacc, Thomas Augustus, started Constable's bakery on the corner of the Market Square. The shop is now Mark's Kitchen, a very good Ch...

Bampton Community Archive

Descendants of Richard Edginton b.1807

• BCA - 2018.1503
• Item
• 1807 - 2018

This is the family tree of Richard Edginton.Names in the family tree.Barrett Basson BellingerBone Buckingham BunceBurchell Bu...

Bampton Community Archive

Descendants of Thomas Radband b.1680

• BCA - 2018.1507
• Item
• 1680 - 2018

This is the family tree of Thomas Radband b.1680 who married Sarah.Names in the family tree.Ackling Ainsworth CampbellCarter Edginton ...

Bampton Community Archive

Bill Daniels, Morris Dancer with the Bampton Traditional Morris Men

• BCA - 2018.1518
• Item
• 1970 to c1985

Bill Daniels started Morris Dancing in 1964 and was a loyal member and a very good dancer.

Bampton Community Archive

David John 'Curly' Titchener, Morris Dancer, fool and musician

• BCA - 2018.1519
• Item
• 1934 to 2011

There is the funeral program for David John 'Curly' Titchener, February 13th 1934 to January 20th 2011, an obituary for Curly and for Colin Bathe, both life long friends written by Keith Chandler, photographs that include Curly and his M...

Bampton Community Archive

The Wilkinson Brothers George and William, Architects

• BCA - 2018.1525
• Item
• early C19th

George and William Wilkinson were born in Witney in the early C19th . George designed the Town Hall in Bampton and the first brick was laid in 1838. William designed the delightful little church at Lew and the Randolph Hotel in Oxford and he als...

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Interactive Art Talk on early C20th African-American Art

• BCA - 2018.1528
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• January 2018

An advert for an Interactive Talk on early C20th African-American Art including work by Jacob Lawrence to be held in Bampton January 2018

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Colin Rouse experiments with old-style thrashing at Hobbs buildings with a Ransom thrasher 1985

• BCA - 2018.1529
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• 1985

In 1985 Colin Rouse experimented with farming the old fashioned way, using a Ransom thrasher. This meant storing corn still on the stems from harvest time in sheaves, until the old thrashing machine could be used. While it was perhaps great fun,...

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The WI Drama group in their performances

• BCA - 2018.1531
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• 1924 to 1973

Bampton WI put on plays from as early as 1924. One photograph records that 1924 group production which won them the Oxford Federation Drama Cup. The majority of pictures and programs are from the 1960s and early 1970s.untitl38 - Bampton Drama Gr...

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Fiddles and Feet learn a new dance in the Village Hall 2004

• BCA - 2018.1533
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• 2004

Fiddles and Feet is a wonderful introduction for children to learn to play the fiddle and they also learn some dances.

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Arnold Woodley's scrapbook of The Pumpkin Club

• BCA - 2018.1537
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• March 30th 1969 to 1997

This is Arnold Woodley's scrapbook that he created about The Pumpkin Club. If you download the pictures their captions will give you the details about the picture.

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Lance Corporal Herbert Lock: B Coy 44th Bn. Canadian Infantry, New Brunswick

• BCA - 2018.1538
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• 1888 1918

Lance Corporal Herbert Lock: B Coy 44th Bn. Canadian Infantry, New Brunswick. He died aged 30 on November 1st 1918. He was the son of Mr & Mrs W Lock of the Market Place in Bampton.A315 - Entry of Herbert Lock's name in the cemetery re...

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Marjorie Pollard, OBE JP born August 3rd 1899-died March 21st 1982

• BCA - 2018.1539
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• 1899 1982

Marjorie Pollard OBE JP lived in the Deanery. She cared deeply for the people of Bampton.BA0BA1 Miss Marjorie Pollard who lived at the Deanery with her friend Miss Moreton. This picture was taken in 1973 at The Deanery. Marjorie played hockey...

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Restoration of The Lord Nelson by Tim Tomlins

• BCA - 2018.1548
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• 1995 2005

Tim Tomlins bought the The Swan Inn as a private dwelling in 1964. The space allowed him to restore several engines and the last one was The Lord Nelson which is a Burrell machine. Tim was able to buy it in 1995. It is a single cylinder, 8 hors...

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Leaflet showing the aims of Bampton C of E Primary School 2017

• BCA - 2018.1551
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• 2017

This leaflet explains what Bampton C of E Primary School offers pupils and their aims.

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