Simonds Brewery
Heritage board about H & G Simonds brewery in Reading plus information on the history of the brewery and the board.
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1-2 Hampden Place, the History
This was undertaken during July 2024 as part of the High Street Heritage Action Zone Project. It highlights the businesses which have been based in 1-2 Hampton Place (now 139-141 Oxford Road) over many decades.
William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paler and calotype processes.
Trooper Potts VC
The memorial to Trooper Potts VC and the men of the Berkshire Yeomanry was unveiled 100 years after he was Gazetted.
The Nerk Twins (The Beatles)
On two nights over Easter 1960 the Nerk Twins performed at the Fox and Hounds pub in Caversham for the first and only time.
WWII Bombing memorial
At about twenty-five to five on 10th February 1943, a single German Dornier 217E-4 dropped four bombs across Reading Town Centre.
William Marshal: The Greatest Knight
The information panel about William Marshal, The Greatest Knight, was unveiled on 7th November 2019.
Caversham Heritage Map
The Caversham Heritage Map is on the Railings of the library at the bottom of Hemdean Road, Caversham.
Laurentius Braag
The memorial stone is to Laurentes (Laurentius) Braag, a Danish Prisoner of War from the Napoleonic Wars who died in Reading in 1808.
Dr Anthony Addington
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.