Main Page
This is just an outline of some of the topics this site could have; a couple of pages have been created with some information in them.
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
Theatre
- Hexagon
- South St
- Progress
- Shinfield
Resources
Government
Local: Reading, Wokingham, West Berks, South Oxon Westminster Europe
Transport
- Trains
- Buses
- Coaches
- Cycling
- Parking
Services
- Rubbish
- Tip
- Hospital
- Doctors
- Dentists
- Vets
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
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
building s- Waterhouse, Elgar Rd
IDR
Kensington St angel of death
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