HERITAGE OPEN DAYS Thursday 10Th – Sunday 13Th September 2015

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HERITAGE OPEN DAYS Thursday 10th – Sunday 13th September 2015

8 Father Willis Organ Demonstrations 17 Reading on Tour: Music and Cinema Trail 26 St Peter’s Church Free talk and demonstration of the historic organ by members A guided tour around the Reading’s historic cinemas and music venues Take a guided tour of the beautiful and historic church of St Peter’s, of the Berkshire Organists’ Association, followed by an based on learnings from Reading on Tour, Readipop’s HLF funded Caversham. Consecrated in 1162, the church has retained some opportunity to play the instrument. No need to book. cultural heritage project, uncovering Reading’s hidden history. of its Norman features, along with monuments encapsulating Concert Hall, Reading Museum & Town Hall, Blagrave Street, Meet at Town Hall Square, RG1 1QH the history of Caversham from the 12th to the 21st century. Reading RG1 1QH Saturday 14:30 - 16:00 Ancient churchyard and exceptional view over Caversham Court Sunday 1 hour sessions at 13:00 and 14:00 Gardens below. Teas available in Caversham Court Gardens. Disabled access to both church and gardens. berkshireorganists.org.uk readingmuseum.org.uk 18 Redding Moreys Welcome to Some of the oldest records of morris dancing in the country come The Warren, Caversham, Reading RG4 7AQ 9 Green Park Wind Turbine Tour from Reading. Members of the small dance group “Redding Moreys” Sunday 15:00 will be available to talk about the origins of morris dancing and its early To mark the 10th anniversary of the Green Park wind turbine, there development. Sample food and drink that would have been familiar to 27 will be a special open ‘turbine tour’. The turbine has become an iconic morris dancers in Reading 500 years ago. Sunday Cinema at Readipop and widely recognised structure but how much do you know about it? Join us at Readipop Studios to discover Reading’s hidden film history. Find out more – tour relevant to all age groups / abilities. Watlington House, 44 Watlington Street, Reading RG1 4RJ We will take you from the opening of Reading’s first Cinema in 1909 HERITAGE Green Park, Reading RG2 6GP Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 to the era of blockbusters and multiplexes in the 1980s – all with reddingmoreys.org Saturday, Sunday 11:00 -13:00 film clips and free popcorn. Part of Reading on Tour, Readipop’s HLF funded cultural heritage project, uncovering Reading’s hidden history. Booking essential: [email protected] 19 The Rising Sun Arts Centre Readipop Studios, 35 Milford Rd, Reading, RG1 8LG greenpark.co.uk ecotricity.co.uk The Rising Sun Arts Centre was originally designed and built by Sunday 16:00 - 18:00 OPEN DAYS architect Alfred Waterhouse for his wife as a Temperance House. Grade I readipop.co.uk th th 10 Greyfriars Church, Reading LIsted Some 138 years later it is now used as a vibrant and unique art centre Thursday 10 – Sunday 13 Built by Franciscans in 1311, the main elements of Greyfriars survive with a passion for our community and heritage. Delve into the Rising to this day as the most complete example of Franciscan architecture Sun’s history through an art exhibition of work created for and about 28 Trooper Potts –Illustrated talk on Reading’s new sculpture & in Britain, and the oldest still being used for worship. After the the centre, special poetry readings and a guide to the building’s memorial to Reading’s VC & The Berkshire Yeomanry September 2015 intriguing past. The cafe will be open with homemade refreshments. Dissolution of the monasteries in 1538, it became a poor hospital, Reading Civic Society have invited the Trooper Potts VC Memorial workhouse and then a gaol from 1613-1844. A guide will be 30 Silver Street, Reading RG1 2ST Trust to give a talk about Reading’s new First World War (Gallipoli) and available to give a brief tour covering the history of the church. Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 Berkshire Yeomanry memorial, which will be unveiled and dedicated A self-guided leaflet will also be available. risingsunartscentre.org on 4 October 2015. Find out more about Gallipoli, how Trooper Fred Friar Street, Reading RG1 1EH Potts won the VC and how it was decided to erect a memorial in Friday 12:00 - 16:00 Sunday 14:00 - 16:00 20 RISC Edible Roof Garden Reading. The statue, and the associated Roll of Honour to the 426 Small edible roof forest garden developed to demonstrate sustainability the men of the Berkshire Yeomanry who died in conflicts in the 11 Malmaison Reading and our dependence on plants. All plants in the garden have an 20th century, will be an important new piece of commemorative public HERITAGE AFTERNOON TEA Reputed to be the oldest railway hotel in economic use for food, clothing, medicine etc. and come from all over art in the town. No charge but donations to the trust will be welcome. Visit Malmaison Reading on the Saturday of the world, it was designed by Brunel in the world. Demonstration of renewable energy, water harvesting and Further details: [email protected]. Not suitable for under 11s. Heritage Open Days and enjoy a buffet style 1844. During WWII it was used by the irrigation systems. Regular tours of the garden offered. Garden Hall, Watlington House, 44 Watlington Street, Reading RG1 4RJ afternoon tea in the brasserie at a Ministry of Supply and was visited by 35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS Saturday 14:00 - 15.00 Churchill. Following its closure as a hotel special Heritage offer 10price of £10pp. Saturday 12:00 - 16:00 Sunday 12:00 - 16:00 pottsvctrust.org Enjoy a lazy afternoon with tea and scones with in 1972 and alternative uses over risc.org.uk clotted cream and sandwiches before treating subsequent years, Malmaison refurbished facebook.com/index.php#!/TrooperPottsMemorialTrust yourself to some delicious cakes. it in keeping with the railway theme and 21 Rowberry Morris reopened it as a hotel in 2007. th 29 Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology Pre-booking is necessary: 0844 693 0660 A 16 century house used as an Inn (Castle Inn), a doctor’s residence Saturday 12:00 - 17:00 18-20 Station Road, Reading RG1 1JX and surgery. Once owned by a Reading Mayor, it has been a solicitors’ The Ure Museum welcomes visitors to a special weekend opening. Saturday 12:00 – 17:00 practice since 1971. Original items retained include diamond chimneys, Our temporary exhibition, ‘Found in Britain’ will be on display and coach and horse mounting block, shoe carving on the beam timbers. an accompanying talk will take place on Friday evening. 12 MERL Behind the Scenes Tour Access to areas not normally open to the public during the working day. Whiteknight Campus Reading University, Reading RG6 6AA A special opportunity to see and learn more about the grade II 17 Castle Street, Reading RG1 7SB Friday Talk ‘Found in Britain’ 18:00 Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 listed building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, and the MERL Saturday 09:15 - 16:30 reading.ac.uk/ure and Special Collections archive stores. Learn more about the rowberrymorris.co.uk museum’s Heritage Lottery funded redevelopment. 30 Waterstones

Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road, Reading RG1 5EX 22 St Giles-in-Reading 89A Broad Street, Reading RG1 2AP Getting around In 1191, Pope Clement III gave St Giles to Reading Abbey and Thursday 10:00-11:00 Friday 10:00-11:00 Reading in the 1970s Saturday 11:00 - 12:00 Check out the bus route number for each venue at throughout the middle ages it enjoyed the right of sanctuary. Booking required: 0118 378 8660 / [email protected] During the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century, St. Giles tower Book signing and photographic exhibition: ‘Caught on Camera: reading-buses.co.uk was garrisoned for the King and the upper part was destroyed. Reading in the 70s’ by Terry Allsop. An intimate portrait of Reading 13 Forbury Band Concert The fabric was restored at the end of hostilities. In the second half in the 1970s demonstrating the vitality and diversity of the town – Watership Brass Band will entertain you from the beautiful Victorian of the nineteenth century, the Catholic Revival began to influence aspects that live on despite changes in fashion and car design! Many of the venues are within Reading Town Centre the life and work of what was by now a very populous parish. Bandstand with a host of classic tunes. Why not make an afternoon Tour of Broad Street Chapel Saturday 12:00 - 12:30 and are in easy walking/cycling distance of each other of it and bring along a picnic? Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Geoff Sawers, author of ‘Broad Street Chapel & the Origins of Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 Sunday 12:00 - 14:00 Reading RG1 3BB Dissent in Reading’, will lead a tour of public areas of the building readybike.co.uk Sunday 15:00 - 16.30 sgilesreading.org.uk in which Waterstones is located. His book will also be available for purchase. Booking is necessary as numbers are limited to 8 places for 14 Reading Museum Store Tour 23 St James’s Church this event. Tickets are free of charge available in store. Behind the scenes tour of the Museum’s South Reading store The Church is Pugin’s very first church design. The foundation stone was Happy exploring! th The Writing on the Wall: Reading’s Latin Inscriptions exploring how museum staff record the collection and manage the laid in December 1837. Extensions were added in the 20 century. Built store to maintain high standards of collection care. See objects and in the Norman style it is a rarity among Pugin’s designs. It was among the Saturday 15:00 - 16:00 excavation records relating to Reading Abbey. Small group tours first Catholic churches to be built in England after the Reformation and Meet author Peter Kruschwitz to hear about some of Reading’s Latin lasting about 1 hour. You will be given location directions upon booking. is sited over the ruins of Reading Abbey. Visitors will be able to become inscriptions detailing the remarkable and chequered history of the town. familiar with the contents of a modern Catholic Church. There will be a Facebook.com/readingheritageopendays Thursday Tours: 11:00, 13:30 & 15:30 display about the history of St James with guides on hand. Guided tours Booking essential: 0118 937 3400 [email protected] of the church will take place throughout the day and there will be talks at 31 Watlington House 3 pm on each of the days on “Reading Abbey and Discovering Henry I”. Come and explore one of Reading’s oldest buildings dating back to @LivingRdgEvents 15 Reading Central Library 1 Forbury Road, Reading RG1 3HW 1500 – home of the first Kendrick school and the Watlington family. Relax with tea and cakes in our recently restored walled garden or Behind the scenes tour provides a chance to look at historic books, prints Friday, Saturday 11:00 - 16:00 Sunday 13:00 - 16:00 the Refectory. See the stone plinth that comes from Reading Abbey, livingreading.co.uk and maps in the strong room and the rolling stacks. The library’s oldest jameswilliam-reading.org.uk pictures from when this served as Kendrick school, take in the Trooper book is The Mathematical Jewel by John Blagrave, published in 1585. Potts (local hero from WW1) exhibition in the hall or browse the house heritageopendays.org.uk Kings Road, Reading RG1 3BQ 24 St John the Baptist Church and garden. You might even get to meet the ghost of Captain Purvis. Saturday 11:00-12:00 Take a look inside this Victorian Church, view its stain glass windows 44 Watlington Street, Reading RG1 4RJ as well as wander around the church gardens, which now includes a Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information at the time of going to print. Booking required: 0118 901 5950 (12 places max.) Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 community vegetable garden. For full access information it is recommended that you contact venues before visiting. beta.reading.gov.uk/libraries watlingtonhouse.org.uk St Johns Road, Reading RG4 5AN 16 Reading Abbey Quarter Tours Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 32 stjohnthebaptistcaversham.org.uk Yeomanry House/Family History Research Centre Learn more about the Abbey Quarter, which features a number of Find out about the history of Yeomanry House, a listed building dating historic monuments within the former precinct of Reading Abbey. 25 Sonning village tour back to the 1880s or start researching your own family history. The The Heritage Open Days National Partnership: Visitors will visit the Abbey Ruins which are currently closed to the Family History Research Centre is sited in the wing of Yeomanry public to hear more about its history and the ongoing conservation Tours of the historic and once Episcopal riverside village to include House. Want some help progressing or organising your family plans for Reading’s most historic monument, including the many of its historic buildings, most being fine examples of domestic, history research? The Research Centre will have a dedicated team of Council’s Heritage Lottery Fund application. Event not suitable vernacular or public architecture. Opportunity to see the highly volunteers during Heritage Open Days. No need to have ancestors for children under the age of 11. significant baroque Rich Memorial in the church and to hear about from Berkshire. There is a library containing more than 6,000 items Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading RG1 1QH other buildings associated with the Rich and Palmer families. from all over the world, computers and internet access to millions and Friday Tours: 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30 & 14:00 St Andrew’s Churchyard, High Street, Reading RG4 6UR millions of records. Home-made cake and refreshments available. Saturday Tours: 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30 & 14:00 Thursday, Friday, Sunday Walks 14:00 131 Castle Hill, Reading RG1 7TJ Booking essential: 0118 937 3400 [email protected] Booking essential: 0118 969 2132 [email protected] Thursday, Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 readingmuseum.org.uk sonning.org.uk berksfhs.org.uk 6 1 Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatters Tea Party 1 / CAvERSHAM 2 24 mile COURT Join artists from jelly arts organisation to celebrate 26 1 miles GARDENS 150 years of Alice in Wonderland with a special ST JOHN Mad Hatters Tea Party. There will be storytelling, 1 / THE BAPTIST 2 ST PETER’S drawing your own Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and HERITAGE mile CHURCH CHURCH you can help us make a new animation. A sculpture created by animator Peter Lang, entitled “Times and 27 Places” will also be on show. There will be special prizes for the children who come dressed up in the theme of Alice in Wonderland. 5 minute walk SUNDAY Broad Street Mall, Reading RG1 7QE CINEMA 25 OPEN DAYS 4 miles Friday 10:30 - 12:30 (pre-school children/parents) th th Saturday 10:30 - 12:30 (family) SONNING Thursday 10 – Sunday 13 vILLAGE Booking: [email protected] TOUR jelly.org.uk

September 2015 2 Berkshire Record Office The Berkshire Record Office holds the archives of the Royal County of Berkshire. Take a ‘behind the scenes’ tour (30-45 mins) to see the strongrooms and conservation studio. This year, the Berkshire Don’t miss the four day celebration of Reading’s Family History Society will also be providing a talk on ‘Parish Registers for Family History’ heritage and culture as venues across the town open 9 Coley Avenue, Reading RG1 6AF their doors to provide special access to residents Saturday 11:00 -13:00 (talk at 11:30) Booking essential: 0118 937 5132 / [email protected] and visitors. Enjoy a fantastic programme of talks, berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk behind the scene tours and special openings as 3 The Berkshire Yeomanry and part of the free annual celebration of the Trooper Potts Memorial site visit nation’s fantastic history, architecture Work has started on site and by Heritage Open Days the Portland Stone plinths for the new memorial and culture. You’ll find full details will almost be complete though the sculpture itself will not be in place. Come and talk to members in this leaflet or online at 4 of the Trust on site about the memorial and the process of creating the monument. This event links www.heritageopendays.org.uk. 1 mile BROCK to an illustrated talk on 12th September at 2pm in KEEP Watlington House. Memorial site – open paved area opposite The Crown Court & The Forbury Hotel, Please check full details for each event/ Abbot’s Walk RG1 Friday 12:00-14:00 Saturday 10:00 -12:00 venue before travelling as many require Sunday 12:00 -16:00 pre-booking. 4 Brock Keep: Napoleon and the 66th Berkshire Regiment See inside what was once the gatehouse, guardroom and armoury of Brock Barracks. Learn about the building’s history and the history of the Royal 1 Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatters Tea Party Berkshire Regiment. A special exhibition of prints relates to the guarding of Napoleon on St Helena by 2 Berkshire Record Office Berkshire regiments. Exhibition of art and history on the ground floor, plus find out more about the artists who have made and shown art in the Keep 3 The Berkshire Yeomanry and Trooper Potts over the last 30 years on a guided tours of artists’ Memorial site visit studios on upper floors. All ages welcome, children’s art activities. 4 Brock Keep: Napoleon and the OpenHand OpenSpace, 571 Oxford Road, 66th Berkshire Regiment Reading RG30 1HL Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11:00 - 17:00 5 Burial Ground & Quaker Meeting House 5 Burial Ground & Quaker 6 Caversham Court Gardens Meeting House Tour of the Quaker burial ground and meeting house. 7 The Church of the Most Holy Trinity MERL 2 Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Saturday & Sunday 13:00 8 Father Willis Organ Demonstrations 12 9 Green Park Wind Turbine Tour 21 Rowberry Morris 6 Caversham Court Gardens A special exhibition in the summer house – “Magna Carta and William Marshal, Lord of the 10 Greyfriars Church, Reading 22 St Giles-in-Reading manor of Caversham”. Marshal acted as intermediary between King John and the barons as Magna Carta 11 Malmaison Reading 23 St James’s Church was sealed in 1215. After King John died, Marshal re-issued Magna Carta under his own seal, ensuring 12 MERL Behind the Scenes Tour 24 St John the Baptist Church its survival. Look out for poetry and art installations tucked away in the beautiful riverside gardens! Sonning village tour Guided tours of the gardens and the exhibition. 13 Forbury Band Concert 25 Charity-run Tea Kiosk open on site. URE MUSEUM Church Road, Reading RG4 7AD 14 Reading Museum Store Tour 26 St Peter’s Church OF GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY Saturday, Sunday 14:00 -16:30 15 Reading Central Library 27 Sunday Cinema at Readipop 1 mile fccg.org.uk 29 16 Reading Abbey Quarter Tours 28 Trooper Potts 7 The Church of the Most Holy Trinity The church contains many unusual and beautiful 17 Reading on Tour: 29 Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology furnishings including the famous Pugin Screen and an Music and Cinema Trail altar set by Martin Travers from Nashdom Abbey. 30 Waterstones GREEN PARK A large collection of old elaborate vestments will 18 Redding Moreys WIND be on display along with the altar plate. 31 TURBINE Crypt/catacombs. Limited toilet facilities/no Watlington House disabled toilet access. Wheelchair access by 19 The Rising Sun Arts Centre 9 temporary ramps. Limited parking on street. 32 Yeomanry House / Family History 20 RISC Edible Roof Garden Research Centre 2 miles Oxford Road, Reading, opp. Russell Street Thursday, Friday 12:00-15:00 Saturday 11:00 -15:00 Sunday 11:00-12:00 HERITAGE OPEN DAYS Thursday 10th – Sunday 13th September 2015

Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road, Reading RG1 5EX 22 St Giles-in-Reading 89A Broad Street, Reading RG1 2AP Getting around In 1191, Pope Clement III gave St Giles to Reading Abbey and Thursday 10:00-11:00 Friday 10:00-11:00 Reading in the 1970s Saturday 11:00 - 12:00 Check out the bus route number for each venue at throughout the middle ages it enjoyed the right of sanctuary. Booking required: 0118 378 8660 / [email protected] During the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century, St. Giles tower Book signing and photographic exhibition: ‘Caught on Camera: reading-buses.co.uk was garrisoned for the King and the upper part was destroyed. Reading in the 70s’ by Terry Allsop. An intimate portrait of Reading 13 Forbury Band Concert The fabric was restored at the end of hostilities. In the second half in the 1970s demonstrating the vitality and diversity of the town – Watership Brass Band will entertain you from the beautiful Victorian of the nineteenth century, the Catholic Revival began to influence aspects that live on despite changes in fashion and car design! Many of the venues are within Reading Town Centre the life and work of what was by now a very populous parish. Bandstand with a host of classic tunes. Why not make an afternoon Tour of Broad Street Chapel Saturday 12:00 - 12:30 and are in easy walking/cycling distance of each other of it and bring along a picnic? Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Geoff Sawers, author of ‘Broad Street Chapel & the Origins of Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 Sunday 12:00 - 14:00 Reading RG1 3BB Dissent in Reading’, will lead a tour of public areas of the building readybike.co.uk Sunday 15:00 - 16.30 sgilesreading.org.uk in which Waterstones is located. His book will also be available for purchase. Booking is necessary as numbers are limited to 8 places for 14 Reading Museum Store Tour 23 St James’s Church this event. Tickets are free of charge available in store. Behind the scenes tour of the Museum’s South Reading store The Church is Pugin’s very first church design. The foundation stone was Happy exploring! th The Writing on the Wall: Reading’s Latin Inscriptions exploring how museum staff record the collection and manage the laid in December 1837. Extensions were added in the 20 century. Built store to maintain high standards of collection care. See objects and in the Norman style it is a rarity among Pugin’s designs. It was among the Saturday 15:00 - 16:00 excavation records relating to Reading Abbey. Small group tours first Catholic churches to be built in England after the Reformation and Meet author Peter Kruschwitz to hear about some of Reading’s Latin lasting about 1 hour. You will be given location directions upon booking. is sited over the ruins of Reading Abbey. Visitors will be able to become inscriptions detailing the remarkable and chequered history of the town. familiar with the contents of a modern Catholic Church. There will be a Facebook.com/readingheritageopendays Thursday Tours: 11:00, 13:30 & 15:30 display about the history of St James with guides on hand. Guided tours Booking essential: 0118 937 3400 [email protected] of the church will take place throughout the day and there will be talks at 31 Watlington House 3 pm on each of the days on “Reading Abbey and Discovering Henry I”. Come and explore one of Reading’s oldest buildings dating back to @LivingRdgEvents 15 Reading Central Library 1 Forbury Road, Reading RG1 3HW 1500 – home of the first Kendrick school and the Watlington family. Relax with tea and cakes in our recently restored walled garden or Behind the scenes tour provides a chance to look at historic books, prints Friday, Saturday 11:00 - 16:00 Sunday 13:00 - 16:00 the Refectory. See the stone plinth that comes from Reading Abbey, livingreading.co.uk and maps in the strong room and the rolling stacks. The library’s oldest jameswilliam-reading.org.uk pictures from when this served as Kendrick school, take in the Trooper book is The Mathematical Jewel by John Blagrave, published in 1585. Potts (local hero from WW1) exhibition in the hall or browse the house heritageopendays.org.uk Kings Road, Reading RG1 3BQ 24 St John the Baptist Church and garden. You might even get to meet the ghost of Captain Purvis. Saturday 11:00-12:00 Take a look inside this Victorian Church, view its stain glass windows 44 Watlington Street, Reading RG1 4RJ as well as wander around the church gardens, which now includes a Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information at the time of going to print. Booking required: 0118 901 5950 (12 places max.) Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 community vegetable garden. For full access information it is recommended that you contact venues before visiting. beta.reading.gov.uk/libraries watlingtonhouse.org.uk St Johns Road, Reading RG4 5AN 16 Reading Abbey Quarter Tours Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 32 stjohnthebaptistcaversham.org.uk Yeomanry House/Family History Research Centre Learn more about the Abbey Quarter, which features a number of Find out about the history of Yeomanry House, a listed building dating historic monuments within the former precinct of Reading Abbey. 25 Sonning village tour back to the 1880s or start researching your own family history. The The Heritage Open Days National Partnership: Visitors will visit the Abbey Ruins which are currently closed to the Family History Research Centre is sited in the wing of Yeomanry public to hear more about its history and the ongoing conservation Tours of the historic and once Episcopal riverside village to include House. Want some help progressing or organising your family plans for Reading’s most historic monument, including the many of its historic buildings, most being fine examples of domestic, history research? The Research Centre will have a dedicated team of Council’s Heritage Lottery Fund application. Event not suitable vernacular or public architecture. Opportunity to see the highly volunteers during Heritage Open Days. No need to have ancestors for children under the age of 11. significant baroque Rich Memorial in the church and to hear about from Berkshire. There is a library containing more than 6,000 items Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading RG1 1QH other buildings associated with the Rich and Palmer families. from all over the world, computers and internet access to millions and Friday Tours: 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30 & 14:00 St Andrew’s Churchyard, High Street, Reading RG4 6UR millions of records. Home-made cake and refreshments available. Saturday Tours: 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30 & 14:00 Thursday, Friday, Sunday Walks 14:00 131 Castle Hill, Reading RG1 7TJ Booking essential: 0118 937 3400 [email protected] Booking essential: 0118 969 2132 [email protected] Thursday, Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 readingmuseum.org.uk sonning.org.uk berksfhs.org.uk HERITAGE OPEN DAYS Thursday 10th – Sunday 13th September 2015