Explore Reading's Heritage

On two nights over Easter 1960 the Nerk Twins performed at the Fox and Hounds pub in Caversham for the first and only time.

Dr Anthony Addington was born on the family estate in Twyford in 1713 he took his M.A. in 1740 and his M.D. in 1744.

Mary Russell Mitford was an English author & dramatist best known for Our Village sketches of village scenes and vivid characters.

Joseph Huntley opened his bakery in London Street, Reading in 1822. The name Huntley and Palmers Biscuits is well known throughout world.

The Queens Road Car Park was opened by Cllr Maureen Lockey on 30 January 1990 during her Mayoralty.

Neil Goldsmith's red plaque is on a boulder which is set in the small garden to the front right side of Wokingham Road Fire station.

David Barnes' plaque is on one of the boulders which are set in the small garden to the front right side of the Fire station in Reading.

It is recorded that Lennie Lewington, better known as ‘Lenny the Tramp’, lived for 84 years. He was a familiar face in Reading.

Geoff Goddard is remembered for his work in the popular music industry during the early 1960s as a songwriter, singer and instrumentalist.

Born in Didcot, Maurice was a Berkshire lad (only Oxfordshire since 1974)) who played for the county town side.

Gustav Holst's plaque is located at the University of Reading, London Road Campus mounted on a pillar in the Great Hall.

Edith Morley studied at the Oxford Honour School of English and English Literature. She achieved a first class in her examination in 1899.

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was one of the leading poets of the First World War and a soldier, killed a week before the signing of the Armistice that ended the First World War.

In the 1860s George William and Alfred joined the family firm of Huntley and Palmers as unpaid clerks at the age of sixteen.

Born in Reading, after a long career with the local police, Roy founded and was the chairman of Thames Valley Cleaning Contractors, Reading.

Jane Austen's plaque is sited in a small, railed and locked garden, behind the Abbey Gateway in Reading.

Buckler Engineering occupying 67 Caversham Road between 1939 and 1965. It was here, in 1947, that Derek Buckler designed and built his first car featuring an innovative spaceframe chassis.

Dominic Barberi was an Italian theologian and Passionist priest who was prominent in spreading Catholicism in England.

Annie Phoebe Ellen Blackall started work at Reading Post Office in 1901 aged 13 and quickly became a trade union activist.

Joseph Huntley was born in 1775 into a Gloucestershire Quaker family. The name "Huntley and Palmers Biscuits" is well known throughout world.