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Is it a coincidence that it is bang next to the mooring which Byron posted about today? At least I think it is because of Ferry Lane...

Edit to add - due to the wonders of 'street view' I can see it is a coincidence and I am talking rubbish. Carry on.

Hello Grehan.
 
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It's the Slipway between me and Wallingford. The land along there belongs to the old mental hospital which is now being developed into private housing. The Slipway is quite good but there's no permanent moorings along that side but some very nice ones opposite.
 
byron said:
It's the Slipway between me and Wallingford. The land along there belongs to the old mental hospital which is now being developed into private housing. The Slipway is quite good but there's no permanent moorings along that side but some very nice ones opposite.
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I don't often get it right. Didn't want to be too specific; got to keep some things "private" doncha know.
I wonder who knows the ownership (if any) of the old ferry boathouse - if that is what it is/was. A liveaboard had camped on it last season. Would make a nice mooring for a small boat.

As to Ferry Lane - not unreasonably there are a lot / some on the River and in many cases there all that's left. Quite interesting for anoraks; tou see a lump of concrete on one side or another and no obvious reason for it's existence ('frinstance opposite the George & Dragon at Wargrave).
 
TrueBlue said:
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I wonder who knows the ownership (if any) of the old ferry boathouse - if that is what it is/was. A liveaboard had camped on it last season. Would make a nice mooring for a small boat.
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As far as I am aware that splendid building belongs to whom-so-ever now owns the former Jewish public school. However as many of the outbuildings, flats and houses have been sold then maybe that has too. I have a suspicion that the live-aboard is also staying/using the accommodation above as I have seen movement in there and obvious signs of occupation. Restored that would be a very trendy pad. He appears to have two boats the old wood one and a small narrowboat.
 
byron said:
As far as I am aware that splendid building belongs to whom-so-ever now owns the former Jewish public school. However as many of the outbuildings, flats and houses have been sold then maybe that has too. I have a suspicion that the live-aboard is also staying/using the accommodation above as I have seen movement in there and obvious signs of occupation. Restored that would be a very trendy pad. He appears to have two boats the old wood one and a small narrowboat.
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As always, I'm obliged and grateful for your sagacity. long may it continue.
 
boatone said:
Your educational aspirations are commendable. Such a pity that there are some grumpy old inadequates with little or no sense of humour ..... :D
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Shurely not - this is a truly wonderful forum and all the residents are fantastic folks.

Looking at my post I notice it as poorly worded.
Perhaps "Already been ticked off by another forumite by appearing pompous or whatever"
Should have read
" (I've) already been ticked off by another forumite by my appearing to be pompous or whatever".
It could have been interpreted as the ticker-off being pompous etc.

Can't have that, like Peace, Man, Peace.
 
byron said:
As far as I am aware that splendid building belongs to whom-so-ever now owns the former Jewish public school. However as many of the outbuildings, flats and houses have been sold then maybe that has too. I have a suspicion that the live-aboard is also staying/using the accommodation above as I have seen movement in there and obvious signs of occupation. Restored that would be a very trendy pad. He appears to have two boats the old wood one and a small narrowboat.
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Are you talking about the same boathouses, I think TB was refering to the one on the Cholsey side at the bottom of Ferry lane, there is a large one at Carmel college (ex Jewish school) that has potential for a "nice pad" but not the one at Ferry Lane. Both however being squatted on by livaboards.
 
Chris_d said:
Are you talking about the same boathouses, I think TB was refering to the one on the Cholsey side at the bottom of Ferry lane, there is a large one at Carmel college (ex Jewish school) that has potential for a "nice pad" but not the one at Ferry Lane. Both however being squatted on by livaboards.
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The small concrete boat house on the Cholsey side is (was) owned by the Cholsey Mental Hospital. For many years their head Laundryman used it for his Microplus 16.
 
Chris_d said:
Are you talking about the same boathouses, I think TB was refering to the one on the Cholsey side at the bottom of Ferry lane, there is a large one at Carmel college (ex Jewish school) that has potential for a "nice pad" but not the one at Ferry Lane. Both however being squatted on by livaboards.
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The one at Cholsey just a few yards downstream of the slipway has not had any boats on around it since November ,that may well be more to do with river conditions than anything else though...fish there a lot face.
Thought the road leading down to that slipway [cholsey side] was called papist way??
 
Could it have been part of a pilgramage route?
After all Dorchester Abbey is not that far away.

(Of course I could be talking "rubbish" as I haven't looked to see if that's a reasonable supposition)
 
All quite correct and we walked along the bankside to Wallingford and back on Sunday. Lots of crews out from OxPoly's and Wallingford's boating clubs, but not OUBC. The 'boathouse' just downstream from the Ferry Lane/Papist Way slipway has got Dangerous Structure notices on it. The Fairmile Hospital development - "Cholsey Meadows" - where we now is and which is pretty good, mature landscaping and all, has some kind of plan to renovate it. Beyond that I know not.
 
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