Reading CAAC and Reading Civic Society have published a walk leaflet with a route that covers all the building improvements and works to monuments that were undertaken as part of Reading's High Street Heritage Action Zone project. The route starts at The Pavilion on Oxford Road and ends at the 1-2 Hampden Place mural on… Continue reading High Street Heritage Action Zone walk leaflet
Category: Russell Street/Castle Hill/Oxford Road
On the eighth day of Christmas…
...my true love sent to me: eight Russell Terrace, Seven Bridges House, six hexagons, five Abbey gates, four time pieces, three Thames bridges, two ancient monuments and an Inner Distribution Road. In the garden of 8 Russell Terrace, 1846. public domain: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/283065 It is thanks to the 'Reading Establishment' at 8 Russell Terrace, now 55… Continue reading On the eighth day of Christmas…
On the first day of Christmas…
...my true love sent to me: an Inner Distribution Road. IDR flyover at the foot of Southampton Street looking north Reading's Inner Distribution Road (IDR) encircles the town centre and has very few admirers but as a route around the town centre it takes in some of Reading's most important heritage sites. Construction began at… Continue reading On the first day of Christmas…
Reading Conservation Area Advisory Committee 