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Here is an outline of some of the topics this site could have; some pages (see this list) have already been created.
Please see site RULES regarding discrimination, exploitation, advertising etc.
Contents
Recreation: arts, culture, entertainment, sports etc
Reading Arts and Venues Hexagon, South St, Progress Theatre etc
Art
- Jelly
- OHOS
- Artists' studio trails - Whiteknights, Caversham
- RSAC
Cafes & Restaurants
Cinema
Climbing
Climbing wall
Dance
Karting
Woodley
Music
Museums
- Reading Museum at Town Hall
- Museum of English Rural Life
- URE museum @ UoR
- Medical museum @ hospital
- Blake's Lock?
Parks & Gardens
- Parks
- University grounds
- Harris Gardens
- RISC roof garden
- Caversham Court
- Clayfield Copse
- Dinton Pastures
- Beale Park
- NGS gardens scheme
Pubs & Bars
Shit and Not Shit Pubs in Reading
Sports
doing/watching
- running - park runs, half marathon, fun runs
- football, rugby, tennis, rowing
Swimming
- Rivermead
- Central pools
- cemetery junction?
- King's Meadow lido?
- Northumberland Ave leisure centre
- woodley/Southcote/Calcot/Caversham?
Talks & Meetings
- Cafe Scientifique
- Skeptics in the Pub
- University public lectures
- Library talks
- Green Drinks
- Sunday Assembly
Theatre
- Hexagon
- South St
- Progress
- Shinfield
Resources
Government
Local: Reading, Wokingham, West Berks, South Oxon Westminster Europe
Housing
- Co-housing
Transport
- Trains
- Buses
- Coaches
- Cycling
- Parking
Services
- Rubbish
- Tip
- Hospital
- Doctors
- Dentists
- Vets
- noise & nuisance
- University students - Report to AA Westgarth 0118 3784479. [1]. The uni security can be contacted on 0118 3787799. Video / audio / photographs / addresses help.
Tradespeople
Maps
- council boundaries
- parliamentary boundaries
- postcode areas
- parking restrictions
- cycle routes
- walks
- historical
media
- BBC Radio Berkshire
- 2-ten fm
- BBC South TV
- Get Reading
- Reading Chronicle
- University - Spark?
- Alt Reading - online magazine focusing on arts, entertainment and culture in Reading.
other
- Libraries
- Bicycle Kitchen
- Repair cafe
- Freegle
- Room hire (RISC, Wycliffe baptist church on the kings road)
- Catering (Gyorgi & Rina?)
History
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.
Local artist & illustrator Steve King has made several illustrations combining old and new views of Reading streets.
Terry's Reading walkabouts facebook page
Twinning - Dusseldorf
Beer bricks & bulbs
buildings - Waterhouse, Elgar Rd
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
Where to put these?
Cemetery Junction film
Reading festival
University
Whiteknights Park
WWII hospital
Douglas Bader
Woodley airfield
black history centre mural