Hand written Pages from the Invoice ledger of Mr Joyce from 1907

Ledger of a Bampton Tradesman 1952 into 1953 hand written accounts

Lowdown Issue 11
The Lowdown started off back in March 2020 as a simple sheet called 'The Bampton Beam Lockdown Lowdown' and consisted of essential information about emergency contacts, Covid- related community activities, and details about the services provided by the wonderful Bampton Aid Network (BAN). – As the first lockdown eased, we dropped 'Lockdown' in the title, increased the pages and greatly expanded the contents.

Lowdown Issue 9 FINAL
The Lowdown started off back in March 2020 as a simple sheet called 'The Bampton Beam Lockdown Lowdown' and consisted of essential information about emergency contacts, Covid- related community activities, and details about the services provided by the wonderful Bampton Aid Network (BAN). – As the first lockdown eased, we dropped 'Lockdown' in the title, increased the pages and greatly expanded the contents.

Photograph of Little Place 1905,

Brochure advertising Freshers Week in Bampton, June 23rd 2018 List nearly 60 Clubs and Societies

Sepia Photograph Lucy Winfield (later Shergold) before she married aged about 18

Photograph of Lucy Shergold with her children , Roy & Ruth in Buckland Rd, in 1938

March 2021 issue 17 of The Lowdown, sponsored by Rosebank Care Home. with articles about the renovation of The Old Grammar School and Local Historian Julie Ann Godson

Marjorie Inkster, 76 pages relating to her her wartime work in REME along with her sister Brenda and brother Frazer.
Book written by Marjorie, entitled Bow and Arrow War from FANY to Radar in World War II.
Brenda Inkster was born in 1917 and on leaving school spent some years in France and Germany. She studied at Heidelberg University and apparently eventually spoke German almost like a native.
Brenda joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (F.A.N.Y.) in 1940, driving ambulances and staff cars, but was soon absorbed into Intelligence at Chester, because of her knowledge of German. From there she went to Bletchley Park (having collected a commission on the way) She stayed there until nearly the end of the ear, ending up as a Junior Commander in B.O.A.R., ferreting-out ex-Nazis.

After a five-year art training in the post-war period, she was invited to work in the Ministry of Defence. Having suffered from cancer since the age of thirty, she eventually had to retire and go to live with her sister Marjorie. The sisters came together to live in Bampton, at Grove Cottage in 1963 She died, after marvellous medical care, in 1993.