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Closure of the GWR Oxford via Witney to Fairford railway line
On June 16th 1962 the last train from Witney to Fairford passed through Bampton and Brize Norton station. The newspaper cuttings give a good history of this railway line. In Bampton, there used to be a railway timetable on the wall next to the L...
Bampton Community Archive
Steam engines stop in Bampton November 4th 2006
On a lovely sunny November day in 2006 a group of Steam Engine enthusiasts stopped off in Bampton, Bridge Street to partake of some refreshment.In 2019 John Wharton told me ..."The steam engines were taking part in the Remembrance Road Run or...
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Today 1965 - an album created by Bampton branch of the Women's Institute
At the end of 1965 the Bampton branch of the Women's Institute produced this album called "Bampton Today 1965" for an inter-branch competition it is probably the best source anywhere of Bampton in any single year. It covers many su...
Bampton Community Archive
Bus Shelter gift from the Royal Corps of Signals. Sept 12th 1969
The Royal Corps of Signals were at their base in Weald from 1943 until September 1969 after which it was RAF Bampton Castle. Before the Weald station was ready to receive them, they were based in a house in Fox Close off New Road in Bampton. Whe...
Bampton Community Archive
Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1961
Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1961, this time in colour. For an excellent piece of research and lovely photographs do have a look at https://www.fairfordbranch.co.uk/index.htm
Bampton Community Archive
Town Hall, the Drapers shop & The Talbot seen from Cheapside
This picture was taken from the middle of the road in Cheapside. On the left is the Town Hall with nearly all the archways filled in; the two on the right in the sunshine were unblocked so the space inside could be used as a bus stop shelter a li...
Bampton Community Archive
Jacky Allinson of Bampton Parish Council on Planning, Parking and the Cemetery extension
Jacky Allinson, chair of Bampton Parish Council, writes in the March issue of The Beam about the Parish Council's struggles against planning applications coming in thick and fast for large housing developments. She also writes about the now ...
Bampton Community Archive
Pothole gloom of a County Council Chief
David Nimmo Smith said the County Council was aiming to maintain the roads as best as possible but admitted without £160m extra there was no chance of real improvement.
Bampton Community Archive
The White family who lived in Sandford Cottage from at least as early as 1900
The White family lived in Sandford Cottage, the thatched cottage on the south side of Sandford field from at least as early as 1900. These photographs cover the period 1910 to 1960. They are all family related, some babies, children, adults, in ...
Bampton Community Archive
Terry Crowley's memories of people who took an active part in the life of Bampton 1983-1985
In 1983 Terry Crowley began taking photographs of people in Bampton who worked here, or were born here, or worked for charities here or any combination. It was before the days of digital photography so it was unusual for someone to think to recor...
Bampton Community Archive
£1m to be spent on Oxfordshire's locks in winter 2016/17
The Environment Agency will spend £1.2m repairing the locks on the Thames, five in Oxfordshire plus one in Berkshire, one in Buckinghamshire and one in Surrey through the winter of 2016-2017. Both gates at Shifford Lock to be removed so the frame...
Bampton Community Archive
January 8th 2013. 11.20am. Three buses in Market Sq
The No18 Oxford bus and two of No19, one going to Witney and the other to Carterton. They meet in the square so people can transfer to the Oxford bus if they wish.
Bampton Community Archive
Public footpaths of Bampton on an old map
This map is showing the railway line very distinctly that ran from Witney to Fairford. It's main purpose is to show the public footpaths in an around Bampton. The railway line closed early in the 1960s so I think this map is from before then.
Bampton Community Archive
Free bus Carterton to Bampton for post office while none in Carterton 2015
The post office in Carterton was in the Co-op store. During the change-over to it becoming an Asda store, a free bus was provided for people to get their benefits from the post office in Bampton
Bampton Community Archive
Articles about Bampton from 1954, 1971 and 1975 and one probably before WWII
These articles cover the topics of the nightly curfew, no mains drainage, Morris Dancing, the railway station which is two miles away, Count Munster, Air Marshall Sir Roderick Carr, Air Commodore A S Ellerton ADC to the King, Miss Taunt organist f...
Bampton Community Archive
Two newspaper cuttings about Bampton from 1971
These three newspaper cuttings, one each from 1954, 1971 and 1975 are sizable reports on Bampton at that time.
Bampton Community Archive
Old Time Bampton. An album of pictures & explanations by Lloyd Hughes Owens c1974
This album was created by Lloyd Hughes Owens about 1974. It records events and buildings in Bampton from around 1890 to 1972 and will give you a wonderful idea of Bampton in the first half of the twentieth century
Bampton Community Archive
Old Time Bampton People by Lloyd Hughes Owens
About 1973 Lloyd Hughes Owens made an album about some of the old people in Bampton with photographs and text. This is the album
Bampton Community Archive
Third party insurance for motorcycle for Edwin Eley 1938-9 and another 1951-2
These are the insurance documents for Edwin Eley for his motorbike. Third party cover from March 25th 1938 to March 24th 1939 and another insurance for 1951-2 which cost £3-8s - £3.40 in today's money.
Bampton Community Archive
This is the Highway Code from 1946. Well worth a look, particularly the hand signals and how few road signs there were
Bampton Community Archive
Blenheim Festival of Flight August 14th 2005
This event took place at Blenheim Palace and many Bampton people went to enjoy the whole day. Apart from celebrating flight through the decades there was much more to see and do and the story of the day is told in the photographs
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Parish, A Village Appraisal 1998
In 1998 another appraisal was carried out for Bampton - see also entry 2017.532 for the 1966 appraisal. The areas covered include 1. Household data 2. How time is spent 3. Education 4. Housing and development 5. Utilities and Public Services ...
Bampton Community Archive
Terry Crowley with one of his motorbikes
Terry Crowley lived in one of Bampton's oldest houses, Thatched Cottage in Church Street. He had an extensive collection of motorbikes and he's seen here with one of them
Bampton Community Archive
Newspaper article on Bampton from the Oxford Mail, Friday November 26th 1954
It covers Bampton Morris, Mr J L Hughes Owens the head of the village school, the 'night soil' (human excrement) put out in buckets for collection because there was still no mains drainage scheme; Marjorie Pollard's small publishing...
Bampton Community Archive
Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1959
Locomotive 7412 at Brize Norton and Bampton railway station in 1959
Bampton Community Archive
Beeching axe falls on Witney's rail link
Beeching axe falls on the rail line between Oxford and Witney and the line on to Fairford.'Witney Gazette', January 20th 1972.
Bampton Community Archive