Each year Goring Gap Local History Society publishes a Journal with articles about local history written by its members.
The following articles are extracted from the Journals. If you would like to download the articles, you can do so on the relevant pages. The articles are in four categories - People, Buildings, Reminiscences and Miscellaneous. They are laid out in order of publication.
People
Thomas Higgs - the builder and his house (Alan J Brookes and Janet Hurst)
Doctors in the Goring Gap (Michael Brodie)
Mark Wickens: a Victorian police constable (Janet Hurst)
The Walters family (Gill Cranshaw)
Major Patrick Rance: the story of a Streatley turologist (Alan Winchcomb)
The Stone Coal Charity (Michael Brodie)
The Morrell Estate wills (Michael Brodie)
Patrick Chalmers, Thames angling writer (Robert Harrington)
Squire Gardiner goes to sea (Janet Hurst)
Buildings
Streatley watermill (Michael Brodie)
The tale of the black and white cottages (Janet Hurst)
All change at Goring & Streatley Station (Mike Hurst)
The Streatley By-pass (Michael Brodie)
The early history of the Queen's Arms at Goring (Janet Hurst)
Colonel Bingay's Burden: Chancel Repair Liability in Goring (Garry Alder)
Housing development in Goring 1870-1914 (Janet Hurst)
The modernisation of Goring Church 1887-8 (Garry Alder)
Turning Back Time - Collecting Oral History in the Goring Gap (Alan Winchcomb)
Reminiscences
The way things were (John Hague)
Memories of a happy childhood near Elvendon Priory, Goring, 1930-45 (Doreen Miles, nee Sanderson)
Memories of growing up in Streatley in the 1920s and 1930s (Jack Hill, as told to Jenny and John Boler)
Miscellaneous
50 years of Goring Gap Local History Society (Janet Hurst)
'Shocking Fatalities' on the Great Western Railway (Mike Hurst)
Empire Day in the Goring Gap (Alan Winchcomb)
The following articles are extracted from the Journals. If you would like to download the articles, you can do so on the relevant pages. The articles are in four categories - People, Buildings, Reminiscences and Miscellaneous. They are laid out in order of publication.
People
Thomas Higgs - the builder and his house (Alan J Brookes and Janet Hurst)
Doctors in the Goring Gap (Michael Brodie)
Mark Wickens: a Victorian police constable (Janet Hurst)
The Walters family (Gill Cranshaw)
Major Patrick Rance: the story of a Streatley turologist (Alan Winchcomb)
The Stone Coal Charity (Michael Brodie)
The Morrell Estate wills (Michael Brodie)
Patrick Chalmers, Thames angling writer (Robert Harrington)
Squire Gardiner goes to sea (Janet Hurst)
Buildings
Streatley watermill (Michael Brodie)
The tale of the black and white cottages (Janet Hurst)
All change at Goring & Streatley Station (Mike Hurst)
The Streatley By-pass (Michael Brodie)
The early history of the Queen's Arms at Goring (Janet Hurst)
Colonel Bingay's Burden: Chancel Repair Liability in Goring (Garry Alder)
Housing development in Goring 1870-1914 (Janet Hurst)
The modernisation of Goring Church 1887-8 (Garry Alder)
Turning Back Time - Collecting Oral History in the Goring Gap (Alan Winchcomb)
Reminiscences
The way things were (John Hague)
Memories of a happy childhood near Elvendon Priory, Goring, 1930-45 (Doreen Miles, nee Sanderson)
Memories of growing up in Streatley in the 1920s and 1930s (Jack Hill, as told to Jenny and John Boler)
Miscellaneous
50 years of Goring Gap Local History Society (Janet Hurst)
'Shocking Fatalities' on the Great Western Railway (Mike Hurst)
Empire Day in the Goring Gap (Alan Winchcomb)