IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Friar Street, READING, RG1 1DA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Friar Street, RG1 1DA by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (1594 Images Found)
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Hospitium of St John the Baptist
Former Hospitium of St John the Baptist. Guesthouse and Alms Houses associated with Reading Abbey and built in the late 15th Century. The main building of the hospitium survived this demolition, and after various other uses, has now been incorporated into an office development, and is occupied by a children's nursery.
Info taken from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Abbey
Image: © Bill Nicholls
Taken: 16 Feb 2013
0.01 miles
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To Honour the memory
Seventy years to the day and a memorial to the people who died in a bombing raid on Reading is unveiled. Though many people welcome this I do think the plaque is a bit of an after thought and does the memory no justice. You can read my blog on it here. http://spuduka.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/10th-febuary-1943.html
Image: © Bill Nicholls
Taken: 16 Feb 2013
0.01 miles
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More marks
More marks from what I assume is shrapnel damage from the bombing raid in 1943 can be seen near the doorway to St Laurence in Reading.
Image: © Bill Nicholls
Taken: 4 Feb 2012
0.01 miles
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Wreaths under the plaque
Wreaths laid in memory of the people killed in a bombing attack in Reading, the building the plaque is placed on was almost totally destroyed in the attack and some people lost their lives there. http://spuduka.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/10th-febuary-1943.html
Image: © Bill Nicholls
Taken: 16 Feb 2013
0.01 miles
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A piece of Shrapnel?
On looking around St Laurence's Church at the shrapnel damage, I can't help wondering if this is one of the pieces embedded in the stone.
Image: © Bill Nicholls
Taken: 4 Feb 2012
0.01 miles
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Sundial on St Laurence
I doubt may people notice this old sundial on St Laurence Church Reading though it has stood the rigours of time well.
Image: © Bill Nicholls
Taken: 16 Feb 2013
0.01 miles
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Queen going green
The statue of Victoria to commemorate her jubilee is by one of Reading's 'great people', sculptor George Blackhall-Simmons. See http://www.readinglibraries.org.uk/services/local/simonds.htm
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 5 Mar 2008
0.02 miles