Lock Ahoy Penton Hook Lock Laleham Reach Staines

This is really interesting to me - Lock Ahoy was designed by my grandfather the architect Edwin J. Sadgrove and used as a holiday home. My mother recalled summer holidays here and nearly downed in the river when she was young - being rescued by the lock keeper of the time. From the above 'Now it is all flooded' I assume that it no longer exists. I would love to see pictures of it as I don't think I have any.

Hi All
Both my brother and I were born when we were living in Lock Ahoy. My guess is we moved out when I was 5 or 6 so around 1967. My mother who is now 85 is taking the family on a river cruise. chartering a boat at Dachet for the August Bank Holiday week.
She wants to visit all the places she and we grew up showing the grandchildren. Grand Parents lived at leylham reach and Hampton Court all on the river.
We would like to see/ call into Lock Ahoy I think the property has now been redeveloped to a more substantial house but cant find any records.
The land used to regularly flood, we have pictures of my bother and I wading around in wellies in the water hence why the house was built on stilts.
Any body have any ideas?

Lock-a-hoy was renamed Toad Hall and was bought, along with its neighbour Boscobel by Tom Lightfoot, a jeweller in Staines. He lived here for many years with his wife Rita. Under the floorboards of Bodcobel were found albums dating back to 1903 with pictures of the Camp Club, together with minutes of the first meeting of the resident/camp club association formed in July 1903.

Toad Hall has been rebuilt over the last two years and is now a very modern building, identical to its neighbour Boscobel. They have been renamed Summer Time and Lazy River. I met a woman called Claire a few years back who had lived at Toad Hall and remembered Charlie Chaplin coming to live/stay next door at Clar Innis, I know he came to England in 1952, perhaps it was then and possibly was related to another Chaplin who lived in Riverside.

I am texting together with material for a book on this road and would love to have any pictures, with dates, that you could let me see. Foggy.knight@tiscali.co.uk.
Many thanks. Su Knight

See my reply to Michaeljnorth.

I am doing family research and my Great Grandmother Olive Hazel lived at Campenton, Penton Hook Reach, Staines, with her second husband (not my Great Grandad) James Pullen. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers them and where they lived. I can't find any reference to this address anywhere on line. Karen Fraser

Yes I saw the new residence called Toad Hall. I also watched the floods and saw where Lock Ahoy used to be. Later on I walked with my husband down the other side of the river and saw that a new residence had been built to withstand any flood as the stilts are much higher and out of the reach of the river. Well done! As the climate changes we will be soon living like some people do on the deltas of the world! I loved Lock Ahoy! and the big window looking out onto Penton Hook Lock with the boats going by. My father was an actor in the 1920s, mainly in silent films in the UK and France and Germany; and also on the stage and the circus. As the 1930s loomed and the talkies came into being, his big brother Uncle Victor McLaglen who had also made his first film in 1920 with "The Call of the Road", which by the way was re-shown in Sheffield a few years ago after refurbishing, in the same cinema, it had been first shown, at The Abbeydale Picturehouse in Abbeydale Road in the1920s!. The owner had begun to turn it back into the cinema it had once been, and leisure centre, after having been a furniture store!
My father loved the river Thames and boating in it. He belonged to The River Rats who were actors and entertainers who raised money for children in need. He had retired and loved to see the river and row across it. I had brought my first baby to stay for a year whilst my husband found himself a job, so I really appreciated the river and all it had to offer. Just a few cottage towards Staines, up from Lock Ahoy, was a house which had once been a boat. It had been used to save our troops at Dunkirk and afterwards they had gone up the river and beached it and blocked it, so it would not fall over, The lady that lived there was very friendly and invited me in what a wonderful history she had to tell!, Cynthia McLaglen