Two Goring school friends found each other again after 80 years

David Minchin recognized Brian Busby the moment he arrived at Lyndhurst care home in Goring, Oxfordshire. The BBC reported on November 11, 2026, that the two men had not seen each other since they were about 10. Busby is 89 and has lived at the home for four years. Until July he was the only man there. Minchin is 90. They both went to Goring Primary on Wallingford Road. They were not close friends as boys, but they walked to school together through Wheel Orchard and knew the same classmates.

Busby said he was known then as the boy whose family lived in a converted bus on a farmer's field near the railway station. The home said the two now sit together for meals, watch David Attenborough programs and shows about trains, and share a daily pint of Guinness in the front lounge. Minchin joked that he keeps Busby out of trouble. Activities coordinator Eleanor Preston said shared memories make it easier to settle, and that the place feels like home when people have a past in common. The news is this one reunion. It does not say how many other residents have found old neighbors the same way.