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Anyone for tennis?
As Wimbledon draws to a close in July, it is likely that people will become ...
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Art for the masses
It is thought that the Slough Arts Festival began in the 1940s. The aim was ...
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Building blocks of industry
The north of Bracknell was made up of clay. Not just any old clay, but ...
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Accounting for Shakespeare
Theatre in the Elizabethan period was not the pleasurable experience we may think of today.
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Astronomical beauty
G Turner Davis was a local man from Donnington Gardens, Reading who produced a compilation ...
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Generosity in captivity
Albert Ernest Cusden was one of nine children of the Cusden family of Reading.
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A pocketful of wonder
In December it is not uncommon to purchase a diary for the following year.
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All aboard your highnesses!
Amongst the archives at the BRO we have a wonderful little notebook from 1941 containing ...
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A Scrap of History
The Women's Institute celebrated its Centenary in 2015, but back in 1965 it celebrated its ...
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