TRANSPORT HISTORY GROUP
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Transport History Group
The villages of Goring and Streatley have been shaped by modes of travel - from ancient trackways, horse-drawn waggons, stage coaches and motor vehicles, to the river and railways, transport features strongly in the history of Goring and Streatley. The Group has made history too, by arranging Goring's first ever Blue Plaque (for Sam Saunders, the founder of Saunders-Roe) as well as the first steam train to stop here since the 1960s.
The Transport History Group (THG) is open to any member interested in the history of transport and incurs no extra subscription. Those who have signed up receive details of all the outings and a regular illustrated newsletter.
How does it work?
Members keep in touch by email, phone and letter. Activities cover all forms of transport including rivers, canals, sea, road, rail and air. Ten monthly outings are usually arranged each year and most trips use public transport, starting from Goring and Streatley Station. Sometimes travel is by minibus and/or shared cars. Venues include:
Members pay as they go on each outing, often at preferential group rates for both travel and any entry charges.
Recent past outings have included: a visit to the Royal Mews, a guided tour of the Farnborough Air Sciences Park, a walking tour of Chimneys and Tunnels along the Thames, and an outing to the Black Country Living Museum.
Programme of Visits
The provisional programme of visits for 2020 is attached here. Please note that these are provisional ideas. Bad weather, strikes and other circumstances make cause changes.
The next visit is to the National Brewery Centre at Burton-on Trent on 11 March. If social history (especially of workers and the pub trade), brewing history, vintage delivery vehicles, horses, stationary steam engines, steam railways and even pub games are among your interests then this is for you. We will have a 2-hour Kilderkin Guided Tour, where among other things we can get close and personal with the Museum's dray horses - watching them being prepared and, if the weather is good, having a ride on the day!
I attach the relevant flyer. There is a lunch menu. We may need to confirm choices nearer the day.
On Friday 24 April we have an outing to The Silverstone Experience, Silverstone, Northamptonshire. This is not just about cars! There are displays on the early history of the area, the wartime bomber airfield (lots on Wellington bombers), and the early amateur post-war motor sport boom right up to modern hi-tech motor racing. Superb virtual reality features enable you to experience a lap of the circuit and the chaos of a Grand prix start. You can even see how quickly you can change a wheel, and have a go at a WW2 Link Trainer. You can go outside for a healthy walk round the original racetrack. The visit has been timed so there may be some track activity for the Touring Car weekend.
Travel is by coach - there are only a few place left. Download the flyer here.
We are also taking bookings for the Blue Tunnel Three Rivers Cruise, Southampton on Monday 13 July. . This is a 3-hour cruise into the Solent visiting the Itchen, Test and Hamble rivers plus on-board Fish and Chips! Download the flyer here.
To join the Transport History Group
First become a member of the Goring Gap Local History Society and then contact us to find out more or join the Group.
Transport History Group
The villages of Goring and Streatley have been shaped by modes of travel - from ancient trackways, horse-drawn waggons, stage coaches and motor vehicles, to the river and railways, transport features strongly in the history of Goring and Streatley. The Group has made history too, by arranging Goring's first ever Blue Plaque (for Sam Saunders, the founder of Saunders-Roe) as well as the first steam train to stop here since the 1960s.
The Transport History Group (THG) is open to any member interested in the history of transport and incurs no extra subscription. Those who have signed up receive details of all the outings and a regular illustrated newsletter.
How does it work?
Members keep in touch by email, phone and letter. Activities cover all forms of transport including rivers, canals, sea, road, rail and air. Ten monthly outings are usually arranged each year and most trips use public transport, starting from Goring and Streatley Station. Sometimes travel is by minibus and/or shared cars. Venues include:
- Transport and industrial archaeology museums
- Preserved railways
- Old boats and planes
Members pay as they go on each outing, often at preferential group rates for both travel and any entry charges.
Recent past outings have included: a visit to the Royal Mews, a guided tour of the Farnborough Air Sciences Park, a walking tour of Chimneys and Tunnels along the Thames, and an outing to the Black Country Living Museum.
Programme of Visits
The provisional programme of visits for 2020 is attached here. Please note that these are provisional ideas. Bad weather, strikes and other circumstances make cause changes.
The next visit is to the National Brewery Centre at Burton-on Trent on 11 March. If social history (especially of workers and the pub trade), brewing history, vintage delivery vehicles, horses, stationary steam engines, steam railways and even pub games are among your interests then this is for you. We will have a 2-hour Kilderkin Guided Tour, where among other things we can get close and personal with the Museum's dray horses - watching them being prepared and, if the weather is good, having a ride on the day!
I attach the relevant flyer. There is a lunch menu. We may need to confirm choices nearer the day.
On Friday 24 April we have an outing to The Silverstone Experience, Silverstone, Northamptonshire. This is not just about cars! There are displays on the early history of the area, the wartime bomber airfield (lots on Wellington bombers), and the early amateur post-war motor sport boom right up to modern hi-tech motor racing. Superb virtual reality features enable you to experience a lap of the circuit and the chaos of a Grand prix start. You can even see how quickly you can change a wheel, and have a go at a WW2 Link Trainer. You can go outside for a healthy walk round the original racetrack. The visit has been timed so there may be some track activity for the Touring Car weekend.
Travel is by coach - there are only a few place left. Download the flyer here.
We are also taking bookings for the Blue Tunnel Three Rivers Cruise, Southampton on Monday 13 July. . This is a 3-hour cruise into the Solent visiting the Itchen, Test and Hamble rivers plus on-board Fish and Chips! Download the flyer here.
To join the Transport History Group
First become a member of the Goring Gap Local History Society and then contact us to find out more or join the Group.