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19. ABBEY GATEWAY 11. READING PRISON
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14. RIMBAUD’S OF READING 17. GREAT EXPECTATIONS
FORMER HOME
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10 TRAIN STATION 13 HUNTLEY AND PALMER’S 15 UNIVERSITY OF READING 17 GREAT EXPECTATIONS
• Where Michael Bond saw • Visitors to the H&P factory • Wilfred Owen studied here • In Victorian times this was
the evacuees that inspired include George Meredith and the Literary Scientific and
• In 1908 the university
him to write Paddington Bear Oscar Wilde Mechanical Institute
employed Edith Morley,
• T.E. Lawrence lost the only • When Bernard Grenfell and Britain’s first female professor • In 1854 Charles Dickens came
manuscript of his book The Arthur Hunt discovered lost here and read an excerpt from
• They have a world renowned
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Sappho poems in 1896 they A Christmas Carol
typography department
here in 1919 carried them home in a Huntley
Palmer’s ginger nut tin • The University holds the 18 MARKET PLACE
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READING PRISON official archive of Mills and
• The bar scenes in Bugsy • John Newbery opened his
Boon, the Ladybird Books
• Oscar Wilde was imprisoned Malone were filmed here publishing business here in
and the Samuel Beckett
here between 1895 and 1897 Foundation. 1740
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RIMBAUD’S FORMER HOME
• The actor Stacey Keach was • He was known as the “father
also imprisoned here for a • Arthur Rimbaud taught 16 MARY RUSSELL of Children’s literature”
short time French here from August- MITFORD’S HOUSE
• D.H. Lawrence came here in
September 1874.
• Home of Mary Russel Mitford 1919 and bought a melon
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THE RIVER
• At this time he was putting (1787-1855), known for her
• Two Rivers was opened by together his groundbreaking descriptions of pre-industrial 19 ABBEY GATEWAY
Peter Hay in 1994, he was poetry collection Illuminations. Reading
inspired by the town’s two • Jane Austen went to school
rivers to create “a place here between 1785 and 1786
where art and history meet”
• It was the only time in her life
• In Three Men in a Boat, she lived away from home
Jerome K Jerome famously
wrote “the river is dirty and
dismal here, one does not
linger in the neighbourhood
of Reading”
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PRESTWICH’S STUDIO
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ESTABLISHMENT BARBER’S STUDIO EXTENSION COLLEGE
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• His work can be seen in the • In Reading he published “The
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EXTENSION COLLEGE
photographically illustrated book • Mrs Dann was Reading’s first
• Marcus Adams studied here 23 ALFRED BARBER’S STUDIO female photographer
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• He devoted his career to the • Alfred Barber was a COLLIER STUDIO • The business photographed local
photography of children daguerreotypist who operated people, landmarks and even
in the town in the early 1850s • Eric Guy and Philip Osborne prisoners at the Police Station
• His sitters included the
Collier shared a studio here • They helped to develop X-rays
Queen, Princess Margaret • He was originally from
and Prince Charles Nottingham but he moved a lot • They both photographed the for the Royal Berkshire Hospital
to avoid being sued for using countryside around Reading
21 GILBERT ADAMS’ STUDIO patented techniques 29 ARCADE STUDIOS
• Their work was published
• Gilbert Adams was a EDWARD BERDOE’S HOME in the national press and on • The Arcade Studios was open
photographer and artist
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• Edward Berdoe was a
• He would often assist his • It was known for its portraits
photographer in Reading 27 WILLIAM PRESTWICH’S of soldiers
father, Marcus Adams, STUDIO
between 1858 and 1859
when he went to visit his
• The studios were run by
famous clients. • Later he “scandalized the • William Henry Prestwich several different people,
medical profession” by was a photographer and an
• By 1934 he had become including Christopher Adams,
publishing a book called St. inventor
a well respected portrait son of Walton Adams
Bernard’s under the name
photographer in his own • He invented silver bromide
Aesculapius Scalpel
right paper (which he sold to Kodak) 30 WALTON ADAMS’ STUDIO
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• He also invented an early
ESTABLISHMENT movie camera which his son Reading’s longest running
STUDIO
used to film Queen Victoria’s photographic business here, it
• Fox Talbot invented the was open from 1886 until 2009
• Sydney Victor White was a Diamond Jubilee
photographic method
local portrait photographer,
he opened his shop here in
the 1860s
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5. THE PAVILION 4. THE ODEON 7. THE VAUDEVILLE 6. THE PALACE THEATRE
ELECTRIC THEATREcinema
1 TOWN HALL 3 WEST’S PICTURE PALACE 5 THE PAVILION 7 THE VAUDEVILLE
ELECTRIC THEATRE
• Built in 1786 • West’s opened in 1909 in • Opened in 1929
Palmer Hall on West Street • Open from 1909 until 1957
• The organ was installed • Built to be Reading’s first
by Father Henry Willis in • The owner (Mr T J West) was sound cinema but another • It was converted from an old
1864, who also built the well known for his gimmicky cinema got in a month earlier shop in Broad Street
organ in the Royal Albert presentations, including
• “Specially constructed to suit • Known locally as:
Hall smashing glass to accompany
the delicate requirements of the Penny Plunge, the
smashed windows on screen
• In 1904 it became the first talking pictures” Bughutch and the Fleapit
place in Reading to show • Wilfred Owen wrote about a
film visit to this cinema in a letter 6 THE PALACE THEATRE 8 THE GRAND
to his brother in December
2 THE CENTRAL CINEMA 1909 • Open from 1907-1960 • Opened opposite the
Vaudeville in 1911
• Played host to many well
• The Central opened in
4 THE ODEON known performers including • It was the classier of the two
1921 and stayed open until
Cliff Richard, Gracie Fields, Broad Street theatres
1999 • One of the original Odeon
Harry Houdini and Reading’s
Cinemas • It closed in 1922
• It was built in the Greek own Alma Cogan
revival style and was • Open from 1937-1958
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• The theatre also used to
covered in white faience
• It attracted famous faces show films during variety PICTURE PALACE
tiles
including Margaret performances
• When it opened, the Rutherford and Petula Clark • Reading’s first cinema
cinema had a ballroom, a
café and an orchestra, but • It was open for one month
only one screen in 1909
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31. SOUND MACHINE 32. HICKIES 43. SOUTH STREETMusic
1 TOWN HALL 6 THE PALACE THEATRE 36 THE PURPLE TURTLE 40 THE RISING SUN
• Built in 1786 • Open from 1907-1960 • The Turtle has been a huge • Reading’s independent art
part of Reading’s music scene centre
• The organ was installed • Played host to many well
for the past 20 years
by Father Henry Willis in known performers including • The building was designed by
1864, who also built the Cliff Richard, Gracie Fields, Alfred Waterhouse
organ in the Royal Albert Harry Houdini and Reading’s 37 READING ABBEY
Hall own Alma Cogan • “Sumer is Icumen In” is 41 THE GREAT HALL
• In 1904 it became the first • The theatre also used to the oldest known musical
• The University of Reading’s
place in Reading to show show films during variety composition that features
Concert Hall
film performances a six part polyphony. It is
also known as Reading Rota • Opened in 1905
SOUND MACHINE because the earliest known
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copy of the composition was
found here in 1261 music tutor here
• Reading’s oldest • Opened in 1977 as part of a
independent record shop plan to develop a new “heart”
of Reading 38 RISC 42 THE RETREAT
32 HICKIES • Well loved music pub with a
• RISC stands for Reading
35 THE TARGET history stretching back to 1899
• The music shop has been International Solidarity Centre
trading since 1864 • Punk and Rock Club which
• They work in the local
used to be under the Broad
community to raise the profile
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of global issues • Opened as an art centre in 1989
• Opened in 2009, the • The venue is home to an • Before then it was a labour
venue has hosted such eclectic range of music exchange
artists as Ed Sheeran, Jake
• International acts like Flight
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Bugg and Public Enemy
of the Concords and Mumford
• This is the longest running & Sons have played here
night club in Reading
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