Obituary – Peter Golding

Peter Golding, a past President and founder of the Slimbridge Dowsing Group, sadly passed away on the 3^rd February this year.

Peter was introduced to dowsing whilst working in Saudi Arabia. At the time he was Chief Engineer of a company contracted to maintain all the navigational aids of one of their airfields. Required to run a new set of underground cables, he was about to get one of his technicians to fetch some cable detectors before digging up the ground, in case they damaged any existing cables, when the digger’s driver suggested they use the old civil engineer’s trick, and dowse for them. So began a lifetime’s involvement in all aspects of dowsing.

Peter was especially renowned for his skills as a water diviner, becoming Vice-Chair of the British Society of Dowsers’ Water Divining Group, and author of their Professional Water Dowsing Curriculum. He was also an author, publishing “ Experiences of an Old Dowser”, “Dowsing for Water”, and more recently “Dowsing for Health and Spirituality”

Peter lived in the village of Slimbridge. A talk he gave to the Local History Society on using dowsing to locate a buried labyrinth in a local farmer’s field, generated such an interest in dowsing, that this led to the Slimbridge Dowsing Group being established under Peter’s Chairmanship.

Peter will be much missed by his friends and colleagues at the Slimbridge Dowsing Group and in the wider dowsing community.