http://www.http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk//rss/rss.php Latest from the online edition en-gb Saturday, 17th of May 2008 08:14:56 AM Copyright (C) 2008 Berkshire Media Group http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/rss/ 54 http://www.berkshiremediagroup.co.uk/furniture/rc_logo_500x75.png http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/ THE cataloguing of the library’s collection of local illustrations has now reached Pangbourne, and the Church of St James the Less. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/2770 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/2770 Thursday, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT News YET another postcard from the Audley Street studio of Mr HA Giles, probably dating from the 1930s. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/2647 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/2647 Thursday, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT News THIS week’s Retro picture shows school children celebrating May Day in the early 1930s. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1331 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1331 Thursday, 01 May 2008 08:05:00 GMT News IN THE past this column has featured a bottle of Butler’s “Mountain Wine,” and this week, we have a bottle of “Reading Festival Ale,” brewed and bottled at the Seven Bridges Brewery by Courage (Central) Ltd, and kindly given to me by a friend, unopened, together with a glass-bottomed tankard won as a prize on the shooting gallery at the Festival Fair, which was held on Christchurch Meadows. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1330 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1330 Thursday, 01 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT News ANOTHER postcard (above) of people in fancy dress this week, but fancy dress with a difference. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1250 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1250 Thursday, 24 April 2008 08:00:00 GMT News AN OLD unidentified postcard prompted dozens of readers to get in touch and reveal its secrets. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1125 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1125 Thursday, 17 April 2008 07:00:00 GMT News IN MY cataloguing of the library’s photographs of Reading, I started with class R/A, then did class R/B, and so on...now I’ve got to class R/FA, which is pictures of councillors, aldermen and mayors. I’m sure no joke was intended in the allocation of this classification! http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1124 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1124 Thursday, 17 April 2008 07:00:00 GMT News At first glance, this is a typical picture of a group outing just after the First World War. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1016 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/1016 Thursday, 10 April 2008 09:00:00 GMT News ANOTHER postcard from the Audley Street studio of Reading photographer HA Giles. Most of his work was done in the years just before the Second World War. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/995 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/995 Monday, 07 April 2008 07:00:00 GMT News THIS week, we salute the trolley buses, which served Reading for some 32 years , from 1936 to 1968. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/817 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/817 Thursday, 20 March 2008 11:00:00 GMT News THIS photograph, brought into the library by a customer, has proved interesting from several points-of-view. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/814 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/814 Thursday, 20 March 2008 10:30:00 GMT News IN THE last few months Caversham Library has been refurbished. While it was closed to the public I was called in, because during the redecoration, some boarding was removed to reveal a doorway that had been covered up for many years. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/681 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/articles/1/681 Friday, 07 March 2008 10:45:00 GMT News