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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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| SuffolkRoyal | 6 Apr 2012, 12:53 PM Post #61 |
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Daib0, the photo shown as Burghfield looks more like the Victoria at Hare Hatch to me. |
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| daib0 | 6 Apr 2012, 05:25 PM Post #62 |
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Yep, you're probably right, I just took them from a BBC page ... |
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| SuffolkRoyal | 6 Apr 2012, 06:08 PM Post #63 |
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I'm not being clever daib0, its just that the Victoria was run by members of my family for many years back in the forties and fifties. My Dad was raised in Hare Hatch and the Victoria was the family local. |
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| daib0 | 6 Apr 2012, 06:28 PM Post #64 |
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OK, bowing to that overwhelming claim, now edited correctly!
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| PercyFreemanLegend | 7 Apr 2012, 07:32 AM Post #65 |
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Definitely not compulsory, and frankly worse than useless! We also used to go to the White Hart for special occasions, is it still there? I also have fond memories of hanging around the Butts Centre in the early 70's looking for girls (never found anything my mother approved of!).... good times! |
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| daib0 | 7 Apr 2012, 04:22 PM Post #66 |
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It'd be fantastic if we could find photos of the Butts Centre being built, but I can't remember those days as a young schoolboy .... and what was there BEFORE?? |
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| SuffolkRoyal | 7 Apr 2012, 06:41 PM Post #67 |
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We used to walk up to Elm Park from the station and straight past what is now the Butts Centre. Blowed if I can remember what was there before, and I must have walked past it hundreds of times. |
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| furiousgrumpywilliam | 7 Apr 2012, 07:04 PM Post #68 |
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When i was learning to drive a bus for reading council , a chap in our group "wrapped" a double dekker round the scaffolding building the butts centre. there were some shops on the oxford st side of where its built ,but the majority took what was a timber yard before it burnt down and became a car park ,and houses one of which i was born in . Good times .
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| daib0 | 20 Jun 2012, 06:01 PM Post #69 |
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I've previously said that I consider the River Pang to be Berkshire's most beautiful river - here are a few pics to back up my claim ... Tidmarsh 1 ![]() Tidmarsh 2 ![]() (Remember the Pang is in two separate streams at Tidmarsh!) Bradfield 1 ![]() ![]() Well upstream (after Hampstead Norris?) ![]() |
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| daib0 | 3 Oct 2012, 08:45 PM Post #70 |
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Berkshire - newer photos Hungerford - 2 photos ![]() ![]() Bracknell - New Town Centre ![]() Reading - Friar Street ![]() Reading - Forbury Gardens ![]() Wokingham - Town Hall ![]() Windsor - Castle ![]() |
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there were some shops on the oxford st side of where its built ,but the majority took what was a timber yard before it burnt down and became a car park ,and houses one of which i was born in . Good times .












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