Streatley
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Maidenhead Town Walk Guide
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Newbury Living Memories
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The Boat.
The boat in the photograph was completed in 1949 by my father George Watson. We lived in Palmers Green, London N13. I am up forward then aged 11. I think the picture was taken in 1949 as I can remember the occasion well.
A memory of Pangbourne contributed by Mr J Watson
fear of wells
The well incident at yattendon scared my father. We had heard about it through relatives and we lived in east tytherley at the time. I remember my father spending a weekend tapping floors and trying to lift flag stones in our kitchen because he was convinced that there was a well under our home- there wasnt.
A memory of Yattendon contributed by joy milligan
The Royal Oak
'The Oak' is the only pub and hotel in the village and in the fifties our next door neighbour was the cleaner there. She would cycle to the village from the farm on a heavy green bicycle in a slow and ponderous manner that has stayed with me to this day. I must have been about nine when the awful event happened that haunted me for years. Police came to the village school one day to ask our neighbour's daughter where her mum was going that morning as she was not at work. The doors in the porch of the pub had been sticking for some months and the cleaner had complained and asked for something to be done, to no ...read more here
A memory of Yattendon contributed by Maggi Stamp-Loshak
The Well House
This was where everyone waited for the buses that took us east to Pangbourne and Reading or west to Newbury, our main shopping town. Newbury had a thriving market twice a week and buses were frequent, eight per day.
The Well House did indeed have a well beneath it and following a tragedy at the Royal Oak pub in which our next door neighbour was killed, the building was renovated.
Originally it was an open wooden structure supported on a low brick wall but after the deep well had been filled it had the sides bricked in. Whilst this is less drafty when waiting for a bus it meant that we couldn't see it coming nor see who else was ...read more here
A memory of Yattendon contributed by Maggi Stamp-Loshak
Extracts From Streatley & Berkshire books
Downstream from Wallingford, the Thames cuts the Goring Gap between the Chilterns and the Berkshire Downs. Brunel’s Great Western Railway also took advantage of the gap for his route from Paddington to Bristol. In this view from the Downs, we look north over Streatley, which was then in Berkshire: its parish church is on the left, with Goring on the right, across the river.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".
This photograph shows the village of Streatley on the left bank of the
Thames. An old wooden bridge linked the village with Goring on the
opposite bank until it was replaced in the 1920s.
An extract from from"Berkshire Photographic Memories".
The village of Streatley can be seen nestling between the Thames and the steep escarpment of the chalk downs,
which are dotted with yews and junipers. The river is wide and shallow at this point.
An extract from from"Berkshire Photographic Memories".
Here we are granted a vision of pure peace. A boatman is resting his oars while hotel guests sit contemplating the slow-moving river. This rambling old inn is now the Swan Diplomat Hotel; the main building is much extended to the right, the left and the front. The thatched room is now tiled, and the outbuilding to the left converted to hotel rooms. To the right is now moored one of the Oxford college barges.
An extract from from"Times Gone By".
Here we are granted a vision of pure peace. A boatman is resting his oars while hotel guests sit contemplating the slow-moving river. This rambling old inn is now the Swan Diplomat Hotel; the main building is much extended to the right, the left and the front. The thatched room is now tiled, and the outbuilding to the left converted to hotel rooms. To the right is now moored one of the Oxford college barges.
An extract from from"Countryside Poems".