South Wales Daily News - 23rd March 1895

SEVERE REPRIMAND OF A WITNESS. At the Knighton Police Court on Thursday before Messrs C. C. Rogers and H. M. Evans - Thomas Fox, carpenter, a native of Staffordshire, was brought up in custody charged with stealing a lady's gold watch and chain, valued at £7 16s, on the 5th inst.. the property of Mrs Davies, of the George Inn, Knighton. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. One of the witnesses, Mrs Naomi Bumford, watch. maker, Knighton, was told by the magistrates that she had narrowly escaped prosecution, and they warned her. The witness had given a white metal watch, valued at £1, for the gold watch tendered to her by the prisoner. The owner's name was engraved inside the gold watch.

Evening Express - 1st June 1909

KEYLESS Lever Watches, thoroughly reliable, 3s 11d post free - Bumford, Watchmaker, Mill Green, Knighton, Rads.

Western Mail 14 April 1917

Private R W Bumford, of Mill Green, Knighton, has died in a military hospital in France after having been in the Army for less than a month. He belonged to the King's Liverpool Regiment.

The Brecon Radnor Express - 29th August 1918

Pte. R W Bumford, King's Liverpool Regiment, died of Pneumonia - not of wounds as stated in our list, published on August 8th. He was the son of Mrs Bumford, Mill Green, Knighton.