We have a wide range of audio recordings of local people being interviewed about their lives, careers and experiences relating to their lives in Bampton over the last 100 years (yes, that long!).
To hear the full recordings do please get in touch with us.
Click the topic title to see a short clip.
| Tape no. | Interviewee | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | Francis Shergold | Morris, church bells and garlands (tape chewed up) |
| A2 | Edie Foreshew | Childhood in Bampton |
| A3 | Nellie Newman (nee Beckinsale) | Maid at Weald Manor |
| A4 | Alice Puttock | Childhood and the War |
| A5 | Ruth Wheeler (nee Shergold) | Childhood |
| A6 | Ralph Hurn | Farming in Weald in the 1940s |
| A7 | Doug Read | Origins of the Shirt Race |
| A8 | Ruth Wheeler and Edie Quick | Origins of the Shirt Race |
| A9 | Freda Bradley & Don Rouse | Childhood in Bampton |
| A10 | Mary Farmer | Her life as a teacher in Bampton |
| A11 | Grace Eeles | The shop, the family and the war |
| A12 | Mary Shergold | Life as a cook at Bampton Manor |
| A13 | Kitty Jackson | My Life in Bampton |
| A14 | Francis Shergold | Recorded 1970, Life and Morris |
| A15 | Frank Pursloe | Morris Dancing |
| A16 | Frank Pursloe | Morris Dancing |
| A17 | Robert Colvile | Childhood and WW2 |
| A17a | Robert Colvile | Childhood and WW2 |
| A18 | Joyce Cotter nee Chambers | Being an evacuee in Bampton |
| A19 | PC Steve Patrick | Policing Bampton |
| A20 | Grace Glanvile | Working at Weald Manor |
| A21 | Edie Quick and Ruth Wheeler | Evacuees and WW2 |
| A22 | Edie Quick,Ruth and Cyril Wheeler | Evacuees and WW2 |
| A23 | Ted Dixey | Talking about everything! |
| A24 | Ruth wheeler | Interviewing Francis Shergold on his work at Weald Manor |
| A25 | Albert Chambers | Being an evacuee in Bampton |
| A26 | Hilda Kent | Land Army in WW2 |
| A27 | Arthur Beckley | Life in the Navy in WW2 |
| A28 | Graham Taylor | Wellington bomber crash 1945 |
| A29 | Roy Shergold | Agriculture memories |
| A30 | Pat Ashbury | Nursing in World War 2 |
| A31 | Freda Bradley | Bampton the way it was (BEWG talk) |
| A32 | Keith Chandler | Morris Tunes |
| A33 | Francis Shergold | Life in the army in World War 2 |
| A34 | Chris Timms | Life on a minesweeper in World War 2 |
| A35 | Roy Shergold | Navy in WW2 Bampton’s Home Guard |
| A36 | Doug Read | Agriculture in Bampton |
| A37 | Don Rouse | With Roy Barratt talking about the Mummers |
| A38 | Stan Smith | With the Ox and Bucks in World War 2 |
| A39 | Ethel White | Aged 90 something, talking about life in Sandford Cottage |
| A40 | Molly Rose | WW2 Air transport auxiliary ferry pilot |
| A41 | Kate Wylie | WW2 Land army and Aircraft factory |
| A42 | Albert Radband | History of Bampton Football Club |
| A43 | Constance Irene de Hamel | BBC announcer in London Blitz |
| A44 | Graham Taylor | A schoolboy's War – Memories of WW2 |
| A45 | Bill Drinkwater | Experiences in WW2 |
| - | Shadrach 'Shepherd' Hayden | Folk singer |
| - | Margaret Smith (nee Welch) | The National School in Church View (1960-63) |
| - | Arnold Woodley | A Radio Oxford interview in about 1970 |