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EXPLORING
READING’S HERITAGE
10 - 19 September 2021
heritageopendays.org
whatsonreading.com
Explore Reading’s heritage as
1 17 Castle Street Reading
part of England’s annual heritage 16th century house used as an inn,
doctor’s residence and surgery. Once
festival, Heritage Open Days, owned by a Reading Mayor, who
which celebrates our built, promoted the bill to lay the paving slabs
natural and cultural heritage. in Reading – the first one was laid outside
this building in 1785. The building has
been used as a solicitors practice since
Reading places and people are
1971. Original items retained include
putting on a range of fantastic diamond chimneys, coach and horse
events to showcase some of the rich mounting block, shoe carving on the
stories that make Reading such a beam timbers. Access to areas not
unique place to live, work and visit. normally open to the public during the
This year, the events are a mixture of working day.
in-person and online only events. SAT 11 SEPT
09:30 – 16:30
In-person Online Rowberry
Morris & Co
17 Castle Street,
The theme for Heritage Open Days RG1 7SB
2021 is Edible England so look out
for Reading events showcasing our
amazing local culinary heritage.
2 Brock Keep
A tour round the historic former armoury
Edible England
and gatehouse which is now home to
artist studios and art gallery. Get creative
Given the difficult times in which with locally sourced fruit and veg to
we are living with events subject make your own prints and sculptures.
Completed in 1877, the building is a fine
to change, please check
example of a Victorian keep built to aid
heritageopendays.org before recruitment and to increase local pride.
visiting and to check accessibility/
transport information. A number SAT 18 & SUN 19 SEPT
of events have small capacities so
11:00 – 18:00
must be booked in advance.
Open Hand Open
Space Ltd
All Heritage Open Days 571 Oxford Road,
events are free to RG30 1HL
attend, but charity donations are
accepted at some events.
All information is correct at the time of printing.
3 Caversham Court Allotments 5 Caversham Road:
A guided tour of the historic kitchen
An area shaped by Victorian
garden (now allotments) at Caversham
aesthetics and innovation
Court to see how our diet and gardening A guided walk around a Victorian
have changed over the centuries. Learn townscape that still has many traces of
about early varieties of vegetables, fruits its rich industrial past as well as plenty
and herbs and see how the English diet of original architectural features. Come
changed over the centuries as new plants and see an area where department store
came in from all over the world, and and brick magnates left their mark and the
gardeners adapted their methods. bicycles for the British Army’s first cycling
regiment were made. Approx 60 minutes.
SAT 11 & SUN 12 SEPT
FRI 17 & SAT 18 SEPT
Tours at 14:00,
15:00 and 16:00 11:00
Caversham Court Meet at
Gardens, The Moderation,
Church Road, 213 Caversham
Caversham, Road, RG1 8BB
RG4 7AD
Booking essential: Booking essential:
Eventbrite.co.uk
Eventbrite.co.uk
Walk is also available online:
4Castle Hill & Coley Heritage https://www.youtube.com/
Walkabout watch?v=8wAZZ7y-9Ls
A circular walk taking in a lost jam factory,
mansions and slums, listed buildings,
Reading FC’s first pitch, lost pubs, brick 6 Celebrate with Father Willis
making and much more. Plus an easy
Organ music and chat from the ‘Father’
to make jam recipe. Donations to local
Willis organ at The Town Hall. Marking
charities accepted.
the centenary of the Berkshire Organist’s
SUN 12 & WED 15 SEPT Association with a brand new work
inspired by music from Reading Abbey,
09:30 which celebrates its 900th Anniversary.
Meet at Corner
of Coley Place SAT 11 SEPT
and Castle Street,
13:00 – 14:00
RG1 7ST
Reading Town Hall,
RG1 1QH
Booking essential:
Eventbrite.co.uk
Eat, pray, love in Antiquity
7 9 Green Park Wind Turbine
at the Ure Museum See the Green Park wind turbine up
The Ure Museum and our colleagues close and personal, find out what
at the Dept of Classics (University of it is, what it does, how it works and
Reading) will post a short video every experience a few experiments too.
day to explore food in Antiquity: ancient Suitable for all age ranges.
diet, depiction of food in our collection,
cook-along recipes, and much more! FRI 10, SUN 12, SAT 18 SEPT
By addressing trading routes, written
Fri: 19:00
sources, ancient ingredients and recipes
Sun: 16:00
while exploring the Ure Museum
collection, we will learn how eating was Sat: 17:00
turned into a ritual that celebrated all 300 South Oak Way,
your senses! RG2 6AD
FRI 10 – SUN 19 SEPT
Anytime
http://collections.
Booking essential:
reading.ac.uk/
greeneducation@hotmail.co.uk
ure-museum/
10Hidden Recipes from
My Ancestral Home by local
artist Caroline Streatfield
Recipe tasting and pick up a recipe
8 Food from the archives card from the High Street Heritage
Action Zone project, plus tours of
Berkshire Record Office brings a culinary The Pavilion, which used to be and
taste of Berkshire’s past to you online.
still is a cinema and has the fixings
Take a look at a recipe from Berkshire’s
from 1929.
past and have a go at making it. Discover
how easy it is to follow a historical recipe. SAT 11 SEPT
11:30 – 13:30
FRI 10 – SUN 19 SEPT
LifeSpring Church,
Anytime The Pavilion,
berkshirerecordoffice. 143-145 Oxford
org.uk/events Road, RG1 7UY
11High Street Sound Walk – 13 Landlords and Conservation.
A Reading of London Street A conflict of Interests?
Artists Aundre Goddard and Richard Lloyd Turner, of Reading based Turner
Bentley’s sound walk combines music, Property, will talk about the challenges
sound and audio drama to tell the story of being a landlord who provide homes
of London Street’s history and community. for students and professionals in HMOs
Take your smart phone to London Street whilst also seeking to conserve and
(or listen at home) to enjoy a self-guided, improve, neglected heritage buildings.
immersive sound walk. ‘A Reading of
London Street’ is a dream-like journey past SAT 12 SEPT
the Black History Mural and Global Café to 18:30 – 19:30
immerse yourself in the evocative sounds
The Changing
that capture the street’s unique identity,
Room, Thames
from the historic Huntley and Addington Lido, Napier Road,
House to the vibrant music of the street’s RG1 8FR
iconic nightspots.
FRI 10 – SUN 19 SEPT
Listen anytime Booking essential:
https://historic Eventbrite.co.uk
england.org.uk/get- Voluntary donation optional
involved/high-street-
culture/sound-walks/
Local Library Treasures –
14
Readings A, B, C
A short film with a food theme looking
12 Look Hear – Oxford Road Tour at more of the library’s treasures.
A is for Reading Abbey in its 900th
Experience the unseen culture, character anniversary (the library is situated on
and heritage of Reading’s Oxford Road from
its stables and it brewed beer),B is for
a guide with intimate knowledge of the area.
beer and biscuits (the library has the
To accompany Baker Street Production’s
in-house magazines for Simonds and
audio project Look, Hear, Oxford Road, this
guided walking tour will take you round a
Huntley & Palmer) and C is for Cock’s
small section of the Oxford Road and show Reading Sauce (made not far from the
you its rich heritage. current library building).
SAT 11, THUR 16, SUN 19 SEPT
Sat 11: 11:00
Thur 16: 10:00
Sun 19: 15:00
Start/finish: Outside
FRI 10 – SUN 19 SEPT
the Biscuit Factory,
Queens Walk Anytime
Booking essential: RG1 7QE. All Ages. Whatsonreading.com
readingmuseum.org.uk/museum/whats-on
Look Up to History in Reading
15
17 Reading Museum – Inset
Town Centre! A Proposed Training: Huntley & Palmers
Heritage Interpretation App In this virtual training session aimed at
Joe Doak’s talk will detail how a mobile school staff, Reading Museum will focus
app(lication) could be developed to on the history of the famous Huntley
reveal, interpret and explain the historical and Palmers biscuit factory and its
and cultural significance of buildings in connections with the development of
Reading Town Centre. Joe Doak was, the town of Reading.
until last year, Associate Professor of THUR 9 SEPT
Urban Planning & Development at the
University of Reading. 16:00 – 17:00
(teachers only)
FRI 17 SEPT Blagrave Street,
18:30 – 19:30 RG1 1QH
Thames Lido,
Kings Meadow
Baths, Napier Booking essential:
Road, RG1 8FR museum.education@reading.gov.uk
18Reading Museum –
Object Handling Talk:
Booking essential: Food Through the Ages
Eventbrite.co.uk A 20-minute talk delivered by our
enthusiastic team and an excellent
opportunity to handle real objects
16 Reading Museum – from our collection to explore the
Edible Reading importance of food through history,
Join curator Brendan Carr to discover
from Roman Britain to Huntley and
fascinating facts linked to the history of food
Palmers biscuits. All ages.
in Reading. Delve into the past of Huntley &
Palmers which made Reading a famous biscuit SAT 11 SEPT
producing town and find out what exactly 10:00 & 11:00
Cocks Reading Sauce was and how the
Blagrave Street,
ingredients were imported from all over the world RG1 1QH
– including anchovies from the Caspian Sea!
FRI 17 & SAT 18 SEPT
14:00
Blagrave Street, RG1 1QH
Booking essential:
readingmuseum.org.uk Booking essential:
readingmuseum.org.uk
19 RISC Edible Roof Garden 21 St Mary’s Episcopal Chapel
Above the World Shop and Global café Find out about the memorials within the
is a small edible roof forest garden Chapel (plaques and window) and a display
developed to demonstrate sustainability exploring the origins of Harvest Festival.
and our dependence on plants. There will be a display of some of the pots
All plants in the garden have an and bottles found several years ago in a pit
economic use for food, clothing, within the Chapel.
medicine etc. and come from all over
the world. Demonstration of renewable FRI 10, SAT 11, THU 16, FRI 17 & SAT 18 SEPT
energy, water harvesting and irrigation
systems. Fri 10: 10:00 – 14:00
Sat 11: 09:30 – 17:30
SAT 11 & SUN 12 SEPT Thu 16: 10:00 – 14:00
12:00 – 16:00 Fri 17: 10:00 – 14:00
Sat 18: 09:30 – 17:30
35-39 London
Street, RG1 4PS 14 Castle Street, RG1 7RD
22 Terry’s Edible Reading
20 St Laurence’s Churchyard
Tour Walkabout
Join Barnaby Wheeler (HCC heritage A guided walk telling the story of the
architect) and Matthew Williams (Reading food of Reading from pre-Victorian times
Museum) to explore one of Reading’s to the present. Featuring famous and the
most historic spaces. Discover its links not so famous, products & manufacturers,
to the foundation and dissolution of unique restaurants & cafes, plus fascinating
Reading Abbey and hear about the facts you may not have heard of!
2015 restoration of the historic Donation to local charities accepted.
churchyard wall and this summer’s
conservation of several ‘at risk’ 18th THUR 16 & SAT 18 SEPT
and 19th century chest tombs within the
churchyard. 09:30
Start from Queen
SAT 11 SEPT Victoria Statue, near
Town Hall Square,
10:30 – 11:30 Blagrave Street,
Meet at Queen RG1 1QH
Victoria’s statue
Booking essential: Booking essential:
readingmuseum.org.uk Eventbrite.co.uk
The Commons Feast,
23 25The Last Gasometer and
Museum of English Rural Life Reading’s Changing Skyline
The Commons Feast is a free, buffet-style Visit this themed art exhibition
meal of local, seasonal, wild, and foraged celebrating the ever-changing skyline
fare as part of an artist-led project at of Reading and bidding a fond and final
The MERL called Commons: Re-enchanting farewell to the last of our so familiar
the World. The feast event will feature gasometers. 25 invited artists will
bread made using a collection of over 80 respond in their own styles and media
sourdough cultures gifted by bakers around to this themed show, appropriately
the world. By inviting you to our shared exhibited in the Turbine House with
table we hope to awaken food memories its view down the Kennet to that last
and encourage our guests to share recipes, gasometer (if it is still there)!
food stories, dining memories, and new
eating experiences. Funded by Arts FRI 10 SEP – SUN 26 SEPT
Council England.
10:00 – 18:00
SAT 18 SEPT The Turbine House,
12:00 – 15:00 Riverside Museum
6 Redlands Road, at Blake’s Lock,
RG1 5EX Gas Works Road,
RG1 3EQ
Booking essential:
merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on
24 Woodley History Walks Heritageopendays.org
Two walks through Woodley. The two
Saturday walks look at the old forge, livingreading.co.uk
historic shops and house in Crockhamwell
Road and the site of Woodley Green Farm.
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The two Sunday walks look at St John’s
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Church, Cobblers City and its old cottages.
ReadingHeritageOpenDays/
SAT 11, SUN 12, SAT 18 & SUN 19 SEPT
@livingreading
Sat 11/ Sat 18: 10:00
Sun 12/Sun 19: 14:00
Sat walks start/finish:
The Oakwood Centre
Exploring Reading’s Heritage
Sun walks start/finish: produced by
The Bull and Chequers
The walks will last for
1-2 hours. Limited places.
Booking essential: 07977 034552
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