In 2001, Freda Bradley had her book published called "Bampton, The Way It Was." Freda was born and lived in Bampton all her life and took a very active part in all that went on, right from being a very young child. She was a lovely lad...
These are 4 letters from a Mrs Roberts in Wantage to Mrs Sollis at The Swan Inn in Buckland Road. It looks as if Mrs Sollis has shown interest in buying a property from Mrs Roberts. The final letter tells Mrs Sollis the cottage has been sold to ...
When our library was threatened with closure Bampton people rose up and protested. A big read-in was organised and a short talk outside the library by Kirsty Young, who lives in Bampton started the day; she was the first of many people, most quit...
Just before the National Health scheme came into force on July 5th 1948, households were sent a leaflet explaining what was to come and the first three pages of this pdf are the leaflet. The remaining 17 pages are of the booklet telling everyone ...
These letters were recovered from a box full of solicitor’s papers after the publication of this booklet. They show the correspondence in 1834 between Rev. B Price, of Aston, Bampton, and Mr George Harcourt, who was the Member of Parliament for O...
These are two booklets produced for households during WWII. One covers the subject of food in war time but also talks about the evacuation scheme; this leaflet and the second one was produced by the Lord Privy Seal's Office in July 1939. Th...
BLEST was set up to raise funds to keep our library open. They combined efforts with the Archive to raise funds for both organisations and over two days held many events. Visiting children's authors held workshops and did story telling, gar...