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Rugby excellence in the 1920s
BRO has a local rugby fixture list which comes from Courtenay Lodge School in Sutton ...
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Leisure as nature intended
The Berkshire Sun and Leisure Club was a naturist society founded in 1976.
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Sight seeing at war?
An 1815 journal belonging to Lieutenant Edward Green reveals some startling contrasts between fighting and ...
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Nice day for a drive
War-time petrol shortages meant more and more people resorted to using horse drawn carriages as ...
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Victory in Europe!
The Germans finally surrendered on 7 May 1945 bringing an end to the Second World ...
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Send me back to prison!
Edwin Price had been sent to Moulsford Asylum following an attempted suicide at Reading Prison ...
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Postcards of snow
Postcards are often dismissed as ephemera and not always given the credit they deserve.
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Ladies Golfing Triumphs
The Berkshire County Ladies Golf Association (BCLGA) held its first meeting in 1923.
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Metal Box’s Gardens
Reading residents will know that the iconic (but sadly unlisted) Metal Box building by the ...
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