Goring, The Lock 1896
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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 Down the Thames Photographic Memories.

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A Selection of Memories from Goring

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Goring

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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 ...see more