Goring Lock telephone number

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Does anyone have the old direct telephone number for Goring Lock, rather then the new generic number that is listed for every lock that gets you through to an answerphone in some EA outpost?

Also while I am at it, does anyone have Days Lock number as well?
 
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Chris_d said:
Google is your friend:

http://www.thamesvintageboatclub.com/thames-locks.html

But your not trying to book a mooring are you? With your boat you can moor anywhere and the leg lifts, why not just cruise along see a nice spot and moor, loads of options near Days bankside.
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The nicely pollarded willows above the lock have created some really nice moorings. Sadly a crop of 'No Mooring' signs have sprouted - which when we passed two weeks ago, but were largely ignored. They may well be 'harvested' in time and it is yest to see whether the landowner will do anything about it.

Such a shame that so many pleasant moorings along the River now carry such signs - a sign of the times......
 
They don't say all say "no mooring" the one's on the meadow say "private moorings, to pre book ring this number etc" and it's £8 pay by card over phone. The one's above the flat meadow do say no mooring. I took them to say no moorings and took photo's, but looking again they are trying to get a mooring fee/protect the sheep/cows etc.

The meadow above the Thame entrance seems available to moor for free, but there's a barbed wire fence so you can't use the meadow.

Loads of other no moorings signs have appeared this year though, both sides of the river above Byron's.
 
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ianc1200 said:
Loads of other no moorings signs have appeared this year though, both sides of the river above Byron's.
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That's a shame, there are dozens of casual moorings on that stretch, unfortunately the plague of liveaboards is ruining it for everyone.
 
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Above Byron's in the meadow opposite Sheridan Marine, many no moorings signs, but as you get to the tail end of the school (we always thinks of it as the mooring opposite "I'm Dots") There's two red signs saying free 24 hour mooring between these signs. One sign is completely hidden downstream of the other behind trees. Effectively means there is one mooring, long narrowboat length, and when we came back down to use it there was a nb there. Downstream of Byron's on opposite side, we had a good & deep mooring, and there appears to be several. The no mooring signs below Cleeve Lock were gone, but perhaps will reappear when the fishing season starts.

Two boats told me of problems with the meadow immediately upstream of Beale Park, in that fishermen had appeared very early in the morning and demanded boats move because they were moored on a spot for a competition.
 
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Two boats told me of problems with the meadow immediately upstream of Beale Park, in that fishermen had appeared very early in the morning and demanded boats move because they were moored on a spot for a competition.
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That's always been the case there though and not a good mooring anyway.
 
? Very good mooring - perhaps thinking of different area. This one has a swing gate at both ends of the meadow. Starts just above upper small island.
 
Chris_d said:
That's a shame, there are dozens of casual moorings on that stretch, unfortunately the plague of liveaboards is ruining it for everyone.
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Surely it's the plague of little white boats which come onto the river at weekends that are responsible for the signs. They outnumber the liveaboards many times over.
 
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