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Aug 5, 2016 · Last month saw popular deli The Grumpy Goat leave its Reading town centre home - now the unit's owner is hoping a new artisanal business will take its place
- Hugh Fort
Jul 10, 2015 · We’ve already looked at Reading’s rites of passage, things you need to have done to be truly from Reading. Now we look at what the town's older generation fondly remember from the 1950s, 60s...
- Hugh Fort
Jan 25, 2018 · The town was changing in the late 60s and 70s. In 2018, Reading is a fast-growing and ever changing town. Flats and houses are springing up, businesses are flocking to the town and drivers are, as always, stuck in a traffic jam.
Take a trip back to Reading in the 1970s. Our pictures show old pubs, shops and people enjoying the sun. Last week, we took a trip back to the days of dolly buses and Vauxhall Victors to look...
Nov 28, 2022 · From the 1870s until the 1970s, Reading was known as ‘Biscuit Town’ because of the fame of Huntley & Palmers' biscuits. The firm influenced almost every aspect of life in the town. Reading Prison was nicknamed ‘the biscuit factory’ because of its close proximity to the factory, while Reading's football team were known as the ‘Biscuit ...
Sep 14, 2018 · Aerial views of Reading from October 1976, showing the Metal Box and Reading Bridge in the background.Credit:getreading. Another aerial view, with The Hexagon and old Civic Centre in the foreground and The Minster of St Mary's in the Butts behind.Credit:getreading.
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Ricky Gervais, who is from Reading, made the film Cemetery Junction, which, although filmed elsewhere in the United Kingdom, is set in 1970s Reading and is named after a busy junction in East Reading.
