Thame - the perfect market town
Thame has been entered in the Great British High Street competition, in the Market Towns category. This 15minute video showcases the town and explains why Thame deserves to win.
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McCartneys livestock market as seen on BBC
THAME SHEEP FAIR 2019
Walk around the sale field showing trucks arriving and departing and views of the salering.
Places to see in ( Thame - UK )
Places to see in ( Thame - UK )
Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 9 miles east of the city of Oxford and 7 miles southwest of the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury. It derives its toponym from the River Thame which flows along the north side of the town. The parish includes the hamlet of Moreton south of the town. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 11,561. Thame was founded in the Anglo-Saxon era and was in the kingdom of Wessex.
Thame Abbey was founded in 1138 for the Cistercian Order: the abbey church was consecrated in 1145. In the 16th century Dissolution of the Monasteries the abbey was suppressed and the church demolished. Thame Park (the house) was built on the site, incorporating parts of the abbey including the early-16th-century abbot's house. Its interior is one of the earliest examples of the Italian Renaissance in England. A Georgian west wing was added in the 18th century. In about 1840 parts of the foundations of the abbey church were excavated: it was 77 yards (70 m) long and 23 yards (21 m) wide, with a Lady Chapel extending a further 15 yards (14 m) at the east end.
The Prebendal House is known to have existed by 1234, The Early English Gothic chapel was built in about 1250. The solar is also 13th-century but was enlarged in the 14th, when the present crown-post roof was added. The rest of the Prebendal House dates is 15th centuries. The hall is 14th-century in plan but was later divided, and one part now has a fine 15th-century roof. In 1661 the antiquary Anthony Wood reported that the house was ruinous, and early in the 19th century the remains were in use as a farmhouse and barns. It was restored in 1836. The Prebendal House was the home of singer/songwriter Robin Gibb and his wife Dwina from 1984, and Gibb is buried in St Mary's parish churchyard.
Thame has an active Round Table as well as socializing every other Tuesday, they also run the famous annual duck race on Thame river in June, and during the weeks leading up to Christmas they also escort Santa and his sleigh around Thame and the surrounding villages collecting money for local charities. Thame has three primary schools: Barley Hill Primary School, John Hampden Primary School and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School. It has one county secondary school, Lord Williams's School. Thame has a Women's Institute and a Rotary Club.
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Thame pronounced Tame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 9 miles east of the city of Oxford and 7 miles south west of the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury. It derives its toponym from the River Thame which flows along the north side of the town.
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Thame Sheep Fair 2018
Highlights from The North of England Mule Theaves at Thame Sheep Fair 2018
Great British High Street 2016 Finalist's Thame Market
Thame High Street has been shortlisted in the small market town category in the Great British High Street awards! Alongside that Chris Hurdman who runs the community market stall has been shortlisted for the Market Champion Award! Thames Campaign to win is now in full swing!!
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Bearing witness at market and following the route to the slaughterhouse.
Thame Market
First Tyting Farm sheep sale
Memories of Thame's last week in its Great British High Street campaign
Thame Market Animal Save - 14 February 2018
Bearing witness to lambs being sold to slaughter. A violent end to such short lives for a product none of us need. Treated as commodities and not sentient beings.
1,602 sales this day, each one an individual.
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British sheep farmers fear they will bear the brunt of the export ban on British livestock imposed by the European Union in an effort to contain foot and mouth disease in cloven-footed animals.
The highly infectious virus was identified in 27 pigs in a English abattoir on Monday, at Little Warley in Essex, northeast of London.
The exclusion area around the abattoir was expanded to 10 miles and controls set up around five farms, from Yorkshire in the north of England to the Isle of Wight off the southern coast, that supplied pigs to the slaughterhouse.
Foot and Mouth disease affects cloven-footed animals, which includes sheep, goats, pigs and cows.
It is not usually fatal but can cause weight loss and reduced dairy production in cattle.
It can spread quickly through the air.
At Northampton livestock market on Thursday, people working in the industry said sheep farmers would be most badly hit by the EU export ban.
Britain exports few pig products and exports of cattle have not yet recovered from the BSE crisis.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I don't see that price of cattle and pigs being affected too much - it will be the prime lambs , they will be affected most because of the export ban
SUPER CAPTION: Mike Carter, Pig and Sheep Auctioneer
The EU said it would review its ban at a February 27 meeting of the Standing Veterinary Committee.
Meanwhile farmers and dealers are in limbo until a decision to lift the ban is made.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
At the moment people won't order anything because they don't know whether they will want lambs or not, we have got half of our lambs waiting to be exported, dead really, and there's just not trade for them. People won't commit to ordering lambs until they know if the export ban is going to be lifted.
SUPER CAPTION: Craig Griffiths, Sheep Farmer and Dealer
The disease is just the latest crisis to hit Britain's farming community, still shell-shocked from the BSE crisis.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, as it is commonly known, is the suspected cause of the fatal variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
That outbreak reached epidemic proportions in Britain after it was diagnosed in 1986 and led to wholesale herd slaughtering, mandatory testing and an EU ban on British beef exports that has since been lifted.
Luke Stacey has a sheep and cattle farm in Buckinghamshire, that lies within the exclusion zone around one of the farms where the infection is believed to have started.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
People have just given up really. It's been one thing after another, all come from outside farming and there's nothing we can do about it. People are just resigned to fact that there seems to be crisis after crisis.
SUPER CAPTION: Luke Stacey, Cattle and Sheep Farmer
The last foot and mouth outbreak in Britain occurred in 1981.
An outbreak in 1967 led to the slaughter of more than 400,000 animals.
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Following the development of a traditional English market town in Newark (Nottinghamshire), the film explores the importance of this central hub in encouraging buying and selling activities between rural and urban environments.
This central exchange is summed up perfectly by the narrator who exclaims 'some have come to sell their beasts, some have come to buy', however it is not just beasts that are up for trade with vegetables, flowers, fine china and net curtains also available.
The necessity of such market networks is displayed in the film, elucidating the positive impact on local agricultural business and the economic and social development of the countryside.
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