Heading beneath the tracks via the subway to the immediate north of the station takes us to the Didcot Railway Centre.

The US Red Cross Empire Club (referred to either as the Empire or the ARC and which we could use) was dedicated to their comfort with a cinema, dance hall, snack-bar, lounge/reading room, games room, two music rooms (one classical) where you could lounge in leather-bound easy chairs listening to records of your choice, put on by grey-uniformed ladies of the US Red Cross.

Unhappily, however, all that remains of Cherhill's claim to an old manor house is a rather cold ungabled building, blue-slated in hard ruled lines, and a porch which might have been transplanted from a late Victorian house.

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