Reading Conservation Area Advisory Committee

'Made of 1.2 million bricks all made in Colchester'!

🏛️ We’re Hiring: Historic Environment Record (HER) Officer 📜 Are you passionate about heritage, archaeology, and preserving our historic environment? We’re looking for a dedicated Historic Environment Record (HER) Officer to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in managing and developing our Historic Environment Record — ensuring information on archaeology, listed buildings, and heritage assets is accurate, accessible, and used to support planning, conservation, and research. ✨ In this role, you will: 🔹 Maintain and update the Historic Environment Record, ensuring data integrity and compliance with professional standards 🔹 Assess and record archaeological and historic environment information 🔹 Support planning and development teams by providing HER data and advice 🔹 Collaborate with archaeologists, planners, historians, and external partners 🔹 Contribute to heritage projects, public engagement, and reporting 💻 To apply: rdguk.info/cKAVj

Welcome to the @UniOfReading's Centenary year. Over the next 12 months we'll be celebrating 100 years of UoR by connecting our community, our actions and our impact through a series of events, shared stories and much, much more. Visit rdg.ac/3MXzd8S to find out more.

This is one of two angels that you can find either side of the west door of St. Laurence's Church, Reading. The carved angel holds a plaque bearing the arms of the Borough of Reading. This photo was taken in 1980. #ReadingLocalHistory

If Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and other sleuths and detectives were to follow us they'd be sure to attempt our weekly #WhereAndWhatIsIt #ColchesterConundrum But they don't. So it's down to you... Here it is. We'll post the answer on Friday afternoon...

Prepare to be bowled over with our day 2 prize - Bowling for four at Bowl Central Reading, plus a group bus ticket to help you all get there. To win, simply tell us: If you were creating the ultimate Christmas bowling team, what would you name them? #NextStopChristmas

@ColCivicSociety This looks like part of the wing on the War Memorial on High Street/Cowdray Crescent.

As you wander the ancient streets of our #Heritage filled city, how much do you really see? How good are your observational and detective skills? Just for fun and to tease and test you here's this week's #WhereAndWhatIsIt? #ColchesterConundrum We'll post the answer on Friday.

We are closed for the next two weeks for our annual stocktake so please do not visit us. We are still monitoring enquiries so email us at archives@reading.gov.uk or ring us on 01189375132. We will reopen to visitors on Tuesday 9 December.

Now housing, this interior view of the Arthur Hill Memorial Baths, Reading, comes from one of the local papers c1935. On the opposite side of the pool are the individual changing rooms, with a viewing gallery above. #ReadingLocalHistory

Ice, ice...maybe? Gritting lorries will be out for their first run of the season, ahead of a very chilly night tonight ❄️ With road surface temperatures expected to fall below freezing overnight, our gritters will be treating primary routes in Reading from 7pm. More about our Winter Road Maintenance plan ➡️ rdguk.info/ubuT2

@BerksArchives 🙂

'Guess who & where!' - is this photograph challenging us? 😂 #ArchivistProblems

#OnThisDay - 27 September 1883, the #JumboWaterTower was officially opened here in #Colchester. The Grade ll* listed structure is now in the care of a charitable trust who will restore, open up and operate it as a destination heritage venue. More: jumbo.org.uk

And he's off! We said hello and goodbye today to Adham Fisher who is attempting to travel around our network in the fastest possible time as part of Catch the Bus Month! Read more about his 'extreme commuting' challenge here: bit.ly/4nWxbDb

Last chance to enter our competition- can you name the nine buildings on our brochure cover? Email us with your answers and we’ll announce the winner later this week, for more details see the back page of our brochure

In the 1930s Huntley and Palmers' planned a new office building in King's Road. The new steel and reinforced concrete buildings replaced the cramped and dingy Victorian offices. It was demolished in the early 1990s. 🖼️ 1997.82.604 & 1997.130.84 📷 Reading Museum #FridayFinds

The Crawshays were a Welsh mining dynasty, who later made Caversham Park their home for a while. Margaret Stewart Taylor details their history in this book, which includes some black and white photos of the family. #ReadingLocalHistory

Sat. 13th Sept. saw the beginning of this year's Heritage Open Day events, many following this year's theme of architecture, and Reading Library's offering is no exception - and you don't even need to leave home to see it! Click here to see our film: rdguk.info/Z02b3

This is the hallway of Leopold House School, 66 Tilehurst Road, Reading, c. 1925. It was a private girls' school, and boys' preparatory school run by Mrs. W. Cordrey. The novelist Elizabeth Taylor went there. The site has since been developed into flats. #ReadingLocalHistory

Congratulations if you recognised this as part of the Henry and Joyce Collins Concrete Murals at the Mersea Road Southway subway exit. This 'roundel' celebrated the UK joining the EU in 1973 and mentions our twin towns of Wetzlar and Avignon. More: colchestercivicsociety.co.uk/what-we-do/con…