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Shirt Race starter pistol confiscated by police
The Great Bampton Shirt Race in its modern times has been run every year since 1953 and was originally started by firing a 12-bore shotgun into the air. This article from the Witney Gazette charts the circumstances that have led to it being start...
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Shirt Race May 24th 2008
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The Donkey Derby held on August Bank Holiday Monday is organised and run by the SPAJERS - Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing - to give Bampton people the chance to have fun while raising money to treat the senior citizens, who are t...
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Witney Gazette reports on the May Bank Holiday Shirt Race 2016
The Witney Gazette has given a double page spread all about the Great Shirt Race in Bampton on the May Bank Holiday. The shirt race is organised by SPAJERS who organise events that provide fun for locals while raising funds to help the senior cit...
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An account of the Donkey Derby August Bank Holiday Monday 2015, organised by the SPAJERS every year to raise funds to give the pensioners a treat.
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This picture is taken in Market Square to show the Shirt Race. However, at this time there was no porch built on to the WI Hall (now the Village Hall), No4 Town House is still a shop and the arch nearest downstairs of the Town Hall is open. The ...
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Program from the 2012 Donkey Derby
Each August Bank Holiday Monday the SPAJERS - Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing - organise a Donkey Derby and Fête in Sandfords Field. It is one of their major fundraising events which ultimately enables the Society to give everyo...
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The Donkey Derby in 2003 was held on a dry and warm afternoon on the August Bank Holiday. It is organised by the SPAJERS - The Society for The Preservation of Ancient Junketing
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Each week the Witney Gazette does an article called 'Memory Lane' and this picture of the start of the shirt race from outside The Swan in Buckland Road was shown in 2016. The Shirt Race is just one fun event organised by the SPAJERS to...
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The annual Bampton Great Shirt Race took place on the Saturday of the late May Bank Holiday weekend in 2004. It is organised by the SPAJERS and funds raise by collectors are used to offer the senior citizens of Bampton a day out at the seaside an...
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Death of Alan Clarke landlord of The Horse Shoe
Alan Clarke, the landlord of the Horse Shoe died suddenly on Monday evening. Alan was a great supporter of many events in Bampton; his pub was the headquarters of the Bampton Traditional Morris Men; he was instrumental in helping to raise money f...
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Program for the Donkey Derby and Fete 2012
This is the program produced by the SPAJERS' Donkey Derby and Fete in 2012 and one raffle ticket
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Winners of the Shirt Race in 1967, Messrs Smith and Snook
The SPAJERS - Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing - hold a shirt race the Saturday before the late May Bank Holiday Monday although when it was run in 1967 it was the Saturday before Whit Monday. This newspaper cutting has a picture...
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George Dafter was known and loved throughout Bampton. He was a postman here for 28 years after joining in 1950 and on his 65th birthday, he retired and was present with the Imperial Service Medal by the Post Office. George also helped the SPAJER...
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The Jubilee Inn, several years, in snow, during a Shirt Race and with landlord Reg Pratley
These are five photographs of the Jubilee Inn in the Market Square which is now (2017) a private dwelling. One picture shows Reg Pratley who was landlord there for several decades and a notice board by his door offering bed and breakfast, luncheo...
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These three photographs are of the Great Shirt Race which takes place in Bampton every year the Saturday before May Bank Holiday Monday. Two were taken in the 1970s but the third one, with Ann and Francis Shergold as entrants in 1999
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