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| daib0 | 31 Jul 2011, 09:47 PM Post #1 |
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Not exactly football pure and pure, but these photos surely shaped the lives of all at the club and the local population generally. The majority are from the sixties, and some just before that era. Photos are roughly in newest first, oldest last order – more or less! It's true I dedicate this to Suffolk, William & Hayes - their interest and knowledge of the town is without question, but it's equally interesting for anyone who takes a pride in what Reading used to be like, and where it has come from! daib0 Reading Broad Street – end of the 60s http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/664140/broad-street-reading-england-1960s Reading Town Centre (trolley bus) - 1968 http://www.flickr.com/photos/50780708@N02/4969220184 Broad Street about 1965 http://www.francisfrith.com/reading/photos/broad-street-c1965_R13085 Friar Street, about 1965 http://www.francisfrith.com/reading/photos/friar-street-c1965_R13076 Reading Technical College about 1965 http://www.francisfrith.com/reading/photos/technical-college-c1965_R13094 Tilehurst – The White House Junction, about 1965 http://www.francisfrith.com/tilehurst/memories/tilehurst-1960s_59351 ç Tilehurst – near Tilehurst Triangle 1960s http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/561924 Reading (Southern) Station frontage in the 1960s http://www.semgonline.com/location/reading_01.html The Mod Scene in Reading – late 50s and 60s – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-12821828 (see photos by clicking on them underneath the first large picture) Caversham Bridge, about 1955 http://www.francisfrith.com/reading/photos/caversham-bridge-c1955_R13048 Tilehurst Triangle, about 1955 http://www.francisfrith.com/tilehurst/photos/the-triangle-c1955_T48020 varying old pictures going back to early 20th century … http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8249000/8249338.stm Suttons Seeds – 19th century! http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/features/2003/06/beer_bulbs_biscuits.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You-Tube – rare footage of Reading in the 60s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQOY13U4SOI Hope you enjoy them, my friends!! Edited by daib0, 1 Aug 2011, 10:15 AM.
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| daib0 | 5 Sep 2011, 08:23 PM Post #31 |
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Who remembers the Tilehurst floods then? I don't think I was around then, so it can't be that many years ago ... who can place a date to this?
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| furiousgrumpywilliam | 5 Sep 2011, 08:38 PM Post #32 |
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Not to long ago mate if the white car is anything to go by
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| daib0 | 5 Sep 2011, 09:38 PM Post #33 |
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Also, as Tilehurst is generally well up and off the Thames/Kennet valleys, which part might this be? The photo I found in internet, and it definitely said the "Tilehurst floods" ... ?! |
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| daib0 | 8 Sep 2011, 10:58 PM Post #34 |
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Now to some old photos of the Kennet Valley – which I mean anywhere from Theale to Hungerford … Aldermaston – 1900-1910 ![]() Bradfield – 1910-1920 ![]() Chaddleworth – 1900-1910 ![]() Chilton – 1900-1910 ![]() Eddington – about 1910 ![]() Hungerford – about 1900 ![]() Hungerford – 1900-1910 ![]() Newbury – St. Bartholomew Street – 1900-1910 ![]() Thatcham – The Council School – 1910-1920 ![]() Thatcham – The Broadway – about 1920
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| daib0 | 9 Sep 2011, 09:04 AM Post #35 |
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Now to some photos of the area that Oxfordshire ‘robbed’ us in the 1970s – until then, centuries of being traditional Berkshire … Abingdon – in about 1905 ![]() Abingdon – about 10 years later – two photos ![]() ![]() Appleton, at about 1905 ![]() Bluebury, now just on the border between Berks/Oxon, but here seen at about 1910-1920 ![]() Two photos of East Hundred, again taken in about World War I days … ![]() ![]() Faringdon again taken about 1910-1920 – remember that Faringdon was once the farthest point in the county from the ‘capital’ Reading – nearly 30 miles, but alas … no more is it Berks … ![]() The centre of Wantage, just before the First World War ![]() Now what I regard as the greatest travesty of justice of all – photos of the ‘Oxfordshire’ town of Wallingford – but once Berkshire’s COUNTY TOWN! Wallingford Town Hall, about 1928 ![]() The centre of town in about 1920 ![]() Wallingford – the Old Lock, probably 1900-1905 ![]() And finally, not forgetting our very special EastStandNapz, a couple of post WW II photos of Didcot – again a town that was for centuries Berkshire: The Broadway, in about 1955 ![]() And a composite of the town some five years later ![]() Hope you enjoy them – more to come next month! daib0 |
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| daib0 | 11 Sep 2011, 09:07 PM Post #36 |
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Upper Thames – upstream from Reading Purley – in 1803 ![]() Pangbourne – Bridge over the Pang - 1899 ![]() Pangbourne – between 1900 and 1910 ![]() Pangbourne in 1910 ![]() Pangbourne – Nautical College in 1910 ![]() Pangbourne – approach to the Toll crossing of the Thames – from 1949 ![]() Basildon – about 1910 ![]() Streatley – from 1900 ![]() Streatley again, this time from 1942 ![]() West Illsley – from about 1905 ![]() |
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| daib0 | 26 Sep 2011, 10:50 AM Post #37 |
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Here's a something a spot different - supposedly the first beauty contest organized in Berkshire(of modern times) in 1954. Older members, I don't know if any of you would recognize anyone, but well, what do you think about the lasses on display? - are we improving generation by generation - I'd say so?!
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| Hayes | 29 Sep 2011, 05:36 PM Post #38 |
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Great photos Daib,my first "big" school was in Faringdon,used to bus it from Charney Bassett.We lived in a big Grange in nearby Lyford(Lyford Grange)where my dad was the Estate manager.In St James Church,Reading, near the prison,just inside the door you will find a piece about Edward Campion,he was a Catholic and when they were being persucuted a few hundred years ago he hid in The Grange in secret passages but was discovered and sent to London in chaines where he was hung,drawn and quatered!My mum had to show people around the house every so often,it was massive.Some lovely old pubs around that area selling Ushers ale.
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| daib0 | 12 Nov 2011, 08:48 PM Post #39 |
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I'm now homing in on SONNING - Sonning - about 1910 ![]() Sonning - St Andrew's Church - 1910-20 ![]() Sonning Lock - about 1920 ![]() Sonning - about 1920-30
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| daib0 | 12 Nov 2011, 08:56 PM Post #40 |
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Now moving along the Thames a bit - Wargrave - High Street 1900-10 ![]() Wargrave - St Mary's Church 1900-10 ![]() Wargrave - The St. George and Dragon Hotel - 1920-30 ![]() Hurley Village - about 1910
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