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A Wiki based resource for Reading

Here is an outline of some of the topics this site could have; some pages (see this list) have already been created.

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

Global Cafe

The Retreat

Eldon Arms

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

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

hackspace

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

Reading & District Natural History Society