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Lived Here
I was sent here some time around 1944/45?, I lived in a farmhouse to the left of this picture, just after the turning left, in fact the entrance was just on the right as one turned left.
The family I think were called "Choules", or Choles", I can remember the post office on the right, and I also remember going down the lane on the right to what was then farm buildings on the left, where the cows were brought in for milking. I was not an evacuee, but these people fostered me for a while.
This is the first time since the 40s I have seen this picture, does anyone know of that family, or the whereabouts of them? They ...read more here
Contributed by Don Lucas
Berkshire memories
Lived Here
I was sent here some time around 1944/45?, I lived in a farmhouse to the left of this picture, just after the turning left, in fact the entrance was just on the right as one turned left.
The family I think were called "Choules", or Choles", I can remember the post office on the right, and I also remember going down the lane on the right to what was then farm buildings on the left, where the cows were brought in for milking. I was not an evacuee, but these people fostered me for a while.
This is the first time since the 40s I have seen this picture, does anyone know of that family, or the whereabouts of them? They ...read more here
A memory of Goring contributed by Don Lucas
WW2
I was evacuated to some wooden bungalows in Goring Road and lived with Percy and Renee Bonner. Renee's relations were Romany gypsies who lived in Woodcote. The photo shows The White Lion and the village shop which I believe was "Pointers Stores". Percy ran a log delivery business, and these were delivered by horse and cart to surrounding areas by Percy, and although only 10 yrs old, myself!! I can safely say that despite the war and my young ignorance, they were the happiest days of my childhood.
I remember a shed nearby in which shoe repairs and accumulators were re-charged and the proprietor suffered a pronounced limp. A nice chap he was. The shed was sited at the entrance to ...read more here
A memory of Woodcote contributed by Ken Cramer
My Childhood in Cholsey
I was born in Cholsey in 1946 and spent probabably the best childhood I could have in a wonderful country village. I attended the village school, I was in the Church Choir and also the Brownies. A wonderful Vicar came to the village in approx 1956 (can't remember the exact year) Mr Bontoft he was called and I became very friendly with his daughter Lisa together with my next door neighbour, Beryl Hobbs, we had so much fun. My mother (Bessie Smith) also took in an evacuee during the war, he was called Brian Barham. He loved the village so much he demanded he had his first year at the village school and he also came back to visit us every ...read more here
A memory of Cholsey contributed by Linda Clarke
Extracts From Goring & Berkshire books
This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the
Berkshire Downs. Plenty of large Victorian houses and ornate villas can be seen in this photograph of Goring.
Excavations undertaken in 1892-93 revealed a medieval priory on the east and south side of the parish church.
An extract from from"Oxfordshire Photographic Memories".
The ivy-clad inn on the left of the photograph is the Miller of Mansfield, a famous pub in the Thames Valley. The
coming of the railway and Goring’s close proximity to the river helped put the village on the map around the turn
of the century.
An extract from from"Oxfordshire Photographic Memories".
The complicated-looking construction in the left distance is the sluice mechanism that controls the flow of the river. In times of heavy rainfall, the excess water runs off here.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".
Goring-on-Thames is famous for its rather complex series of locks and weirs which are designed to control the
river’s water level and allow the passage of pleasure craft. The village’s scenic Thames-side setting made it a popular
haunt of the Victorians and the Edwardians, and it continues to be favoured by visitors today.
An extract from from"Oxfordshire Photographic Memories".
Further along the bridge we look into the backwater with the lock island on the left and the old lock-keeper’s cottage beyond the tree. Goring collected a number of late Victorian and Edwardian riverside houses and boathouses between the river and the village proper. The now tiled boathouse on the right is today a doctor’s surgery.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".