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[[Category:DING]] [https://www.facebook.com/groups/Reading.Memories/ Reading Memories] Facebook group (a closed group so you probably need to have an account on Facebook to view it) [https://www.facebook.com/groups/Old.Reading/?fref=nf Old Reading] Facebook group (a closed group so you probably need to have an account on Facebook to view it) A [https://youtu.be/XegVNISHskw video] made up of pictures blending old photographs of Reading with new pictures of the same views. [http://www.reading-forum.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=34 Memories of Old Reading] on the Reading Forum bulletin board. [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCesNNQcH0rXA8_MjLT8Ji0g Reading Forum YouTube channel] Local artist & illustrator Steve King has made [http://www.steveking-art.co.uk/gallery_275189.html several illustrations] combining old and new views of Reading streets. == Family History / Genealogy == [https://www.berksfhs.org.uk/cms/ Berkshire Family History Society] == Viking == [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Reading_(871) Battle of Reading, 871] Wikipedia == Reading Abbey == [https://www.readingabbeyhistory.com/ Reading Abbey History] : The Hidden Abbey Stones Project, HASP, is an exciting new venture, instigated by John and Lindsay Mullaney. It comes out of the Hidden Abbey Project, which won a Reading Cultural Award in the category "Celebrating Reading's Heritage" in June 2017. The Project's aim is to involve the people of Reading in the rediscovery of the fabric of the great Benedictine Abbey of Reading, founded by King Henry I in 1121. One question which we hope to answer is whether the Abbey changed much during its 400 years as an active monastery. To what extent will we find evidence of changing styles of architecture? And from this information can we say more about what life in the Abbey and in Reading may have been like? == [[Broad St circa 1933]]* == == WW II == The Imperial War Museum has a collection of pictures of [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=life%20in%20wartime%20reading Life in Wartime Reading] There's a 2012 Reading Forum [http://www.reading-forum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=7452&sid=ed83ff1e5303997bfc639011b1e43ced post] made up of pictures and text from the Imperial War Museum collection; unfortunately (and [https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html incompetently]) the IWM seems to have changed the links so the pictures no longer show in the Forum post. Clicking the broken-image icons takes you to the IWM's page for each picture but there are a lot of pictures and clicking through for each one is tedious: alternatively here's a [https://the-ding.org.uk/History/Reading_Forum--PICTURE_OF_A_SOUTHERN_TOWN_LIFE_IN_WARTIME_READING_BERKS.pdf saved copy] (pdf). == Station re-build == [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H6zv-sfFcs Western Tower Reading Demolition] YouTube ---- [https://www.facebook.com/terrysreadingwalkabouts/ Terry's Reading walkabouts] facebook page Twinning - Dusseldorf [http://www.reading-dusseldorf.org.uk/en/AboutUs.htm Reading-Dusseldorf association] - a voluntary organisation devoted to promoting and developing friendship between the peoples of Reading and Düsseldorf in Germany. Beer bricks & bulbs buildings - Waterhouse, Elgar Rd Jackson's - closure, mannequins, Rafael Gough's staff video interviews Holy Brook: [http://digitalnoisephotography.co.uk/2013/06/28/the-holy-brook/ Mark O'Neill's photographs] ([https://www.facebook.com/DigitalNoisePhotographyUK/ Mark's website]) IDR Kensington St angel of death Woodley airfield - Polish airmen University TOBs - wartime hospital? - Douglas Bader? Reading Street Names: [http://tworiverspress.com/wp/abattoirs-road-to-zinzan-street/ Abattoirs Road to Zinzan Street] book by Adam Sowan, the late Peter Hay and Sally Castle; Two Rivers Press Old Maps: the British Library has a collection of [http://www.bl.uk/search/og/search?q=Reading&Go.x=12&Go.y=16&Go=Submit&filter=0&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=public_onlinegallery_firemaps_london_se&client=public_onlinegallery_firemaps_london_se&site=public_onlinegallery_firemaps_london_se&ie=UTF-8&ulang=en&ip=81.99.245.5&access=p&sort=date:D:L:d1&entqr=3&entqrm=0&wc=200&wc_mc=1&oe=UTF-8&ud=1&start=0 Fire Insurance Maps of Reading]
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