Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I fancied a trip out this morning but didn’t want to go too far so a museum at the local university, within walking distance, seemed to be an ideal choice. I’d done the Cole Museum of Zoology at the university last year and so today I thought I would try out the Ure Museum of …
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I was in town with some time to kill so I thought that I would visit the new exhibition at the Reading Museum – In the Company of Monsters. Reading Museum is a lovely place both inside and out. Housed within the Waterhouse designed Town Hall the museum has an interesting and diverse collection of …
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The last of this years Heritage Open Days was to an exhibition at The Hexagon called, imaginitely enough, The Hexabition : Celebrating 45 years of The Hexagon Theatre. If I’m going to be honest The Hexagon is one of if not the most ugly buildings in Reading and it has quite a few challengers for …
Another day, another Heritage Open Day visit! Today was another building that I had walked past so many times wondering just exactly what was the story behind it. Watlington House is the oldest occupied house in Reading having stood here, on what is now Watlington Street, since 1688. Now surrounded by houses and only a …
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Now here’s somewhere I HAVE been before, although sometimes I wish I hadn’t. At the Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) our family has had children born, major and minor operations and various appointments attended. The people there have been great and the building, well, it looks like a hospital. Except that is for what is now …
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It is time once again for one of my favourite events of the year – Heritage Open Days when places that would normally be shut to the public throw open their doors. I have been to some great places over the years (you can read about those here) and have an interesting few lined up …
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Generally, Reading does a pretty good job of putting on a wide variety of events in the town. Not music and theatre as The Hexagon is too small a venue for many acts and it’s too close to London to attract many who would naturally gravitate there. However, occasionally something out of the ordinary comes …
We’ve attended a couple of events recently that have taken place locally. One, the National Garden Scheme, which, as the name suggests, is a national event that takes place locally; the other, Whiteknights Studio Trail, is locally organised and run. Both are the height of voyeurism if you like to nose around other people’s homes …
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I’ve lived in Reading for over 35 years now and have seen the much maligned town (Her Maj has refused on several occasions to grant it city status) go from strength to strength. This has been helped in part but a much more cohesive offering around the cultural aspects of the town such as the …
Today I knocked a visit to the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) off my to-do list. While I have been in the MERL building before I have never actually been in the museum itself having only previously had a tour of the house that abuts it. The entrance to the museum itself is really …
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