• Goring Heath Ladies Cricket Team 1907
  • Goring Heath School c. 1900
  • Goring Heath School c. 1901
  • Woodcote School 1926
  • Woodcote School 1927
  • Woodcote School 1931
    Tim Corbishley Collection
  • Woodcote School, early 1930s
    Tim Corbishley Collection
  • Pupils in Goring Heath School Gardens, Tim Corbishley Collection
    The picture was taken in the early 1900s. The tam o shanter hats were part of the uniform of the “foundation boys” – those who were in receipt of a grant.
  • Three Bears Cottage, c. 1897
  • Three Bears Cottage, Green Lane, Tim Corbishley Collection
    Picture taken late 1800s. As can be clearly seen, the cottage consisted of three residences, each with its own front door. The occupants were all members of the same family.
  • Three Bears Cottage, Green Lane, Tim Corbishley Collection
    At the time this photograph was taken – around the turn of the twentieth century – the cottage would not have been surrounded by woodland as it is now. It would, instead, have been on the edge of the open Woodcote Common, with its water supply coming from the nearby Greenmoor Ponds.The cottage does not appear to have had a name then: “Three Bears” is a later creation.
  • Unknown ladies cricket team, Tim Corbishley Collection
    Picture probably taken around 1910. The ladies are presumably accompanied by their “HaBs” (husbands and boyfriends) – but what is this distinctive building in the background?
  • The Old Bakery. Advertisement from the early 1930s. Does anyone remember the Woodcote bakery?
  • The Folly. This early-nineteenth-century house stands opposite the village church. The sequoia in the rear garden can be seen from as far away as the Berkshire Downs the other side of the Thames Valley. (For more on the Folly, click here.)
    Photograph by Susan Sandford
  • Ridge and furrow. A light snowfall in February 2007 briefly revealed the old ridge-and-furrow ploughing pattern in Hilltop Field between South Stoke Road and Behoes Lane. Photograph by Sue Sandford