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[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=life%20in%20wartime%20reading Life in Wartime Reading]
 
[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=life%20in%20wartime%20reading Life in Wartime Reading]
  
In 2012 Reading Forum had a [http://www.reading-forum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=7452&sid=ed83ff1e5303997bfc639011b1e43ced post made up of pictures and text from the Imperial War Museum collection]; unfortunately (and [https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html incompetently]) the IWM seems to have changed the links so the pictures no longer show in the Forum post, but here's a  
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There's a 2012 Reading Forum [http://www.reading-forum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=7452&sid=ed83ff1e5303997bfc639011b1e43ced post] made up of pictures and text from the Imperial War Museum collection; unfortunately (and [https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html incompetently]) the IWM seems to have changed the links so the pictures no longer show in the Forum post. Clicking the broken-image icons takes you to the IWM's page for each picture but there are a lot of pictures and clicking through for each one is tedious: alternatively here's a  
[https://the-ding.org.uk/History/Reading_Forum--PICTURE_OF_A_SOUTHERN_TOWN_LIFE_IN_WARTIME_READING_BERKS.pdf saved copy] (pdf)
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[https://the-ding.org.uk/History/Reading_Forum--PICTURE_OF_A_SOUTHERN_TOWN_LIFE_IN_WARTIME_READING_BERKS.pdf saved copy] (pdf).
  
 
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Revision as of 14:49, 2 October 2016


Old Reading Facebook group (a closed group so you probably need to have an account on Facebook to view it)

A video made up of pictures blending old photographs of Reading with new pictures of the same views.

Memories of Old Reading on the Reading Forum bulletin board.

Local artist & illustrator Steve King has made several illustrations combining old and new views of Reading streets.

WW II

The Imperial War Museum has a collection of pictures of Life in Wartime Reading

There's a 2012 Reading Forum post made up of pictures and text from the Imperial War Museum collection; unfortunately (and incompetently) the IWM seems to have changed the links so the pictures no longer show in the Forum post. Clicking the broken-image icons takes you to the IWM's page for each picture but there are a lot of pictures and clicking through for each one is tedious: alternatively here's a saved copy (pdf).


Terry's Reading walkabouts facebook page

Twinning - Dusseldorf

Beer bricks & bulbs

buildings - Waterhouse, Elgar Rd

Jackson's - closure, mannequins, Rafael Gough's staff video interviews

Holy Brook: Mark O'Neill's photographs (Mark's website)

IDR

Kensington St angel of death


Woodley airfield - Polish airmen

University TOBs - wartime hospital? - Douglas Bader?


Reading Street Names: Abattoirs Road to Zinzan Street book by Adam Sowan, the late Peter Hay and Sally Castle; Two Rivers Press

Old Maps: the British Library has a collection of Fire Insurance Maps of Reading