HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 13 St. James Church 19 Yeomanry House / Family History 27 Visit St Peter’s Church, Caversham Pugin’s very first church design, built in the Norman style Research Centre Guided tours of a historic 12th Century parish church (1840), it was among the first Catholic churches to be Looking for your history of 1538 or 1939, from Abingdon overlooking beautiful Caversham Court Gardens. built in England after the Reformation and is sited over to Redruth? A worldwide library containing nearly 6000 Guided tours will start at 3pm and 4pm on both days. the ruins of Reading Abbey. Find out more about a items including deeds, maps, parish registers and wills, The Warren, Caversham, Reading RG4 7AQ modern Catholic Church, the history of St James and websites and millions of transcribed records. Enjoy tea and Saturday, Sunday 10:30 - 17:00, Tours 15:00 & 16:00 Reading’s Hidden Abbey Project. Guided tours all day. cake while chatting to a genealogist to help you discover For short talks see times shown. the history of your family. 28 Christ Church Reading Forbury Road, Reading RG1 3FD 131 Castle Hill, Reading RG1 7TJ Magnificent Victorian Gothic church, designed by Friday Saturday 11:00 - 16:00, Talks 15:00 Thursday, Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 Henry Woodyer and consecrated in 1862. The interior Sunday 12:30 - 1600 Talk 15:00 berksfhs.org.uk of the church is striking in its sense of scale and is jameswilliam-reading.org.uk 20 largely unchanged since it was completed. Lovely Forbury Band Concert architecture and stained glass. Refreshments available 14 St. Marys Church The Watership Brass Band will entertain you from the and the church’s garden will also be open. Late-18th century chapel with interesting interior, history beautiful Victorian Bandstand with a host of classic tunes. Christchurch Road, Reading RG2 7AR and exhibition of collection of 18th century pottery, The Forbury Gardens, Reading RG1 3BB Saturday, Sunday – open from 11:00 glassware, leather and other items. There will also be an Sunday 15:00 - 16:30 exhibition highlighting the suffering church down the 29 St Laurence Church ages, and across the world. 21 Jelly Tots at The Chalkboard Café Built outside the Abbey Gate for the people of Reading, 14 Castle Street, Reading RG1 7RD Join jelly tots – a pre school art club, making pretend biscuits inspired by Huntley and Palmers in one of past congregants include Jane Austen and Queen Thursday, Friday 10:00 - 14:00 Saturday 09:30 - 17:00 Reading’s historic cafes. Built in In 1891 as a ‘Refreshment Elizabeth, who attended so often that she was allotted stmaryscastlestreet.org.uk Room’ for the people of Reading today, The Chalkboard a regular seat. This 12th century church has many Café still shows off its heritage. ancient features. The church, which is now solely committed to young people, has been uniquely and Palmer Park, The Lodge, Reading RG6 1LF The Rising Sun Arts Centre creatively re-ordered to include glass rooms and a A Grade II listed building originally designed and built by Thursday 09:30 - 16:30; mezzanine floor. Family craft event 10:30am - 11:30am architect Alfred Waterhouse for his wife as a Temperance Friar Street, Reading RG1 1DA House. Some 138 years later it is now used as a vibrant Friday, Saturday, Sunday 09:30 - 16:30 Saturday 10:00 - 15:00 and unique art centre. Delve into the Rising Sun’s history jelly.org.uk stlreading.org through an art exhibition of work created for and about Reading Abbey Quarter Tours the centre, special poetry readings and a guide to the 22 building’s intriguing past in its 25th birthday year. Learn more about the history of the Abbey Quarter, 30 The Church of the Sacred Heart Cafe will be open with homemade refreshments. the former precinct of Reading Abbey and a nationally important historic site. Visitors will be able to enter the The Church is a Victorian Grade II listed building. 26-30 Silver Street, Reading RG1 2ST Abbey Ruins (currently closed for conservation work) Stained windows and Corinthian columns are of particular significance. The church is at the heart of the Polish Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 and find out more about the Council’s Reading Abbey Revealed project, which is supported by the Heritage community, and welcomes other communities. There risingsunartscentre.org Lottery Fund. will be displays on the history of the Polish resettlement Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, RG1 1QH in the UK after the war. Refreshments with home-made 16 Malmaison Hotel – Reading cakes and a supervised area with toys for children. Friday, Saturday Tours: 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, Reputed to be the oldest railway hotel in the world, it Watlington Street, Reading RG1 4EH was designed by Brunel in 1844. During WWII it was used 13:00, 13:30 & 14:00 Saturday 15:00 - 18:00 Sunday 13:00 - 17:00 by the Ministry of Supply and was visited by Churchill. Booking essential: 01189 373 400 Following its closure as a hotel in 1972 and alternative [email protected] uses over subsequent years, Malmaison refurbished it 31 Barbados Heritage Open Day HERITAGE AFTERNOON TEA readingmuseum.org.uk in keeping with the railway theme and reopened it as a Get involved with the Barbados independence 50th hotel in 2007. ThereVisit Malmaison will be a Reading special on exhibition the Saturday showing of 23 St. Giles Church in Reading anniversary celebrations. Meet the team behind the information about the history of the hotel and a selection Getting Around Heritage Open Days and enjoy a buffet style Originally built in the twelfth century, during the English Reading Barbados Heritage project and enjoy a slice of photographs. Freeafternoon entry. Droptea in the in. brasserie at a Civil War, St. Giles tower was garrisoned for the King of home-made sweet bread! Guy Grannum from the Travelling by bus? 18-20 Station Road,special Reading Heritage RG1 offer 1JX price of £10pp. and the upper part was destroyed (1643). The fabric National Archives at Kew will be on hand to help you Check out the route number for each event Saturday 10 September,Enjoy a lazy afternoon 12 noon with - 5pm tea and scones with was restored at the end of hostilities. discover more about Barbadian heritage. clotted cream and sandwiches before treating Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading RG1 1QH reading-buses.co.uk yourself to some delicious cakes. Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 Sunday 12:00 - 14:00 Saturday 11:00 – 15:00 Many of the venues are within Reading Town Centre and Pre-booking is necessary: 0844 693 0660 Heritage AfternoonSaturday 12:00 - 17:00Tea Offer sgilesreading.org.uk are in easy walking/cycling distance of each other. Saturday 10 September, 12 noon - 5pm 32 Life in Brock Keep – Open Hand The Church of the Most Holy Trinity Open Space readybike.co.uk Happy Exploring! Visit Malmaison Reading on the Saturday of The church contains many unusual and beautiful Grade II listed Brock Keep, built 1877 as the armoury Heritage Open Days and enjoy a buffet style furnishings including the famous Pugin Screen and an and gatehouse of Brock Barracks, home of the Royal afternoon tea in the Chez Mal brasserie at a altar set by Martin Travers from Nashdom Abbey. Berkshire Regiment. In the 1980s the Keep found a new Daily tours of the crypt/catacombes (not Sunday). Facebook.com/readingheritageopendays SPECIAL HERITAGE OFFER PRICE OF £12PP use: providing artist’s studios. Learn more about its Oxford Road Reading, opp. Russell Street @LivingRdgEvents Pre-booking is necessary: 0844 693 0660 100 years of military history, time as a shelter, and Thursday, Friday 12:00 - 15:00 35 years of artists, some of whom have reached livingreading.co.uk Saturday 11:00 - 15:00 Sunday 11:30 - 12:30 international fame. Tours include heritage and art 17 Rowberry Morris & Co exhibition on ground floor(accessible), plus artists heritageopendays.org.uk SuperHome Open Day – studios on upper floors (unfortunately there is no lift). 16th century house used as an Inn (Castle Inn), a doctor’s 25 Open Hand Open Space, residence and surgery. The building has been used as a Eastern Avenue solicitor’s practice since 1971. Original items retained – Find out what Jonathan Gregory has done to his 571 Oxford Road, Reading RG30 1HL diamond chimneys, coach and horse mounting block, refurbished Victorian 1873 semi-detached SuperHome – Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11:00 – 17:00 shoe carving on the beam timbers. including insulation, solar panels, low energy appliances ohos.org.uk and water saving devices. Full details including directions 17 Castle Street, Reading RG1 7SB will be provided when you register your interest. 33 Berkshire Medical Heritage Museum Saturday 09:15 - 16:30 Eastern Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5RY rowberrymorris.co.uk Look round the small but comprehensive museum Saturday Tours 11:00, 12:00, 14:00 & 15:00 devoted to the history of health care over the last Booking essential: www.superhomes.org.uk/134 250 years, including much about the Royal Berkshire Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information at the time of going to 18 Caversham Court Gardens Hospital itself. A special display about medical care in print. For full access information it is recommended that you contact venues before visiting. A special exhibition “Capability Brown in Berkshire”, 26 Trooper Potts VC & Berkshire WWI, and the key part played by the many War to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the father Yeomanry Memorials Hospitals in Reading. of English landscape gardening. Guided tours (including The life size sculpture depicting Trooper Potts rescue of Medical Museum, Royal Berkshire, NHS Foundation Trust, sensory tours for visually or hearing impaired people) are Trooper Andrews at Gallipoli 1915 was unveiled last year. London Road, Reading RG1 5AN available on Saturday and Sunday. Charity-run Tea Kiosk He became the only man from Reading to be awarded the Saturday, Sunday 14:00 open on site. VC as result. It is also a memorial to the 426 men of the Church Road, Reading RG4 7AD Berkshire Yeomanry who lost their lives in the wars of the 34 Burial Ground & Quaker 20th Century. Children’s quiz available and members of Saturday, Sunday 14:00 - 1700; the Memorial Trust will be on site to answer questions. Meeting House Garden Tours 14:00, 15:00 & 16:00 Opposite the Forbury Hotel, Reading RG1 3EJ Tours of the Quaker burial ground and meeting house. fccg.org.uk Friday 10:00 - 12:00 2 Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Saturday 12:00 - 14:00 Sunday 14:00 - 16:00 Thursday – Sunday Tours at 13:00 th th ADMISSION CHARGE Thursday 8 – Sunday 11 September 2016 Haslams Estate Agents 5 Conversion of a Historic Building & Shape of Reading’s Property Market 1 / CAVERSHAM 2 mile COURT In 2015, Reading’s longest established estate agents GARDENS undertook the restoration of the former offices and HERITAGE 18 showroom of the Gas Board (1905). Find out more about Haslams, the building and the restoration challenges plus 1 / 2 ST PETER’S an overview of the Reading property market. mile CHURCH Tea/Coffee provided. OPEN DAYS 27 159 Friar Street, Reading RG1 1HE

th th 4 miles Thursday Talk and Q&A 19:00 - 20:00, Arrival at 18:45 Thursday 8 – Sunday 11 Bookings essential: The talk must be pre-booked via SONNING Eventbrite.co.uk VILLAGE September 2016 TOUR haslams.net

12 Museum of English Rural Life 6 Welcome to a four-day celebration of Reading’s MERL Behind the Scenes Tour heritage during Reading Year of Culture. Learn about the listed building, designed by Alfred This year for Heritage Open Days, many Waterhouse, and the MERL and Special Collections archive stores, as well as the newly developed museum, magnificent heritage venues across the 16 due to open in October 2016. town will be opening their doors to 6 Redlands Road, Reading RG1 5EX 31 22 20 Thursday Tour 10:30 - 12:00 Friday Tour 10:30 - 12:00 residents and visitors. Take advantage 13 reading.ac.uk/merl 4 TROOPER of the fantastic programme of free ST LAURENCE 26 5 POTTS READING & CHURCH Reading & Its Rivers READIPOP MEMORIAL ITS RIVERS 7 talks, walks and special openings – HASLAMS 29 ESTATE 10 7 @ The Turbine House AGENTS READING 8 discover anew historic Reading CROWN An exhibition of work by 16 local artists on Reading and COURT its rivers specially curated for Heritage Open Days. – so much to offer! Set in the Victorian Turbine House on River Kennet. It will be complemented by books from Two Rivers Press, 24 JELLY a trail & deals at Bel & the Dragon restaurant. 1 TOTS You will find full details online Riverside Museum at Blakes Lock, Off Kenavon Drive, 21 heritageopendays.org.uk Reading RG1 3EQ Thursday 10:00 - 18:00 Friday 10:00 - 18:00 1.5 miles Saturday 10:00 - 18:00 Sunday 10:00 - 18:00 1 mile BROCK Please check full details KEEP rgspaces.org.uk 32 ST. MARYS for each event /venue CHURCH Reading Crown Court 8 14 Find out about the Criminal Justice System of England before travelling as 17 and Wales. Take part in a mock trial, sit as a juror and READING RISC EDIBLE decide the defendant’s guilt or innocence. Tours of the many require prebooking. SYNAGOGUE ROOF GARDEN cells and prison van (every 30 minutes); Thames Valley 9 Police will provide a highway patrol car to view and fingerprinting for children. 11 THE CHURCH 30 OF THE Reading Crown Court, The Old Shire Hall, The Forbury, SACRED HEART 1 Reading Central Library Reading RG1 3EH – Behind the Bookshelves Saturday 10:00 - 14:30 33 A chance to look at historic books, 34 BERKSHIRE Reading Synagogue 9 prints and maps. The library’s oldest MEDICAL Reading Hebrew Centre book is The Mathematical Jewel by 23 HERITAGE MUSEUM Grade II listed building. A traditional synagogue in a John Blagrave, published in 1585. 19 Moorish style opened on 31 October 1900 and still in regular Abbey Square, Reading RG1 3BQ use. Talk to be given on the history of Jewry in Reading. Saturday Tour: 11:00-12:00 7 Goldsmid Road, Reading RG1 7YB Bookings essential: 0118 901 5950 0.7 mile Sunday 14:00 - 16:00 [email protected] 2 SUPERHOME rhc.org.uk 15 OPEN DAY 2 Berkshire Record Office 25 Readipop Cultural Heritage Trail 10 ‘Behind the scenes’ tour of strongrooms and Town Hall Square conservation studio (30-45 minutes). The Reading has some amazing cultural heritage, with Berkshire Family History Society will also be connections to everyone from Jane Austen to Paddington providing a talk (Parish Registers for Family History) MERL Bear. We’ve created a brand new heritage trail to show (max 30 people – one hour). Please indicate if you 6 you where to find them. Join a guided tour developed by wish to attend the talk as well as the tour at the Readipop as part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project time of booking. with Reading Museum. 9 Coley Avenue, Reading RG1 6AF Reading RG1 1QH Saturday 10:15 -13:00; Tour 10:15 & 12:15, talk 11:00 Sunday 14:00 - 15:00 Bookings essential: 0118 937 5132 [email protected] Bookings essential: 01189 387 156 [email protected] berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk readipop.co.uk CHRIST 3 Green Park Wind Turbine Tours CHURCH RISC Edible Roof Garden 11 Come and learn all about this landmark structure, what it is, how it works, READING Small edible roof forest garden developed to demonstrate how good is it really? This hour long session will tell you everything there 28 sustainability and our dependence on plants. All plants is to know about the turbine. All ages. in the garden have an economic use. There will also be Green Park, South Oak Way, Reading RG2 6GP 0.2 mile demonstrations of renewable energy, water harvesting and irrigation systems. Regular tours of the garden offered. Sunday 12:00 Bookings essential: [email protected] 35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS nrgreduced.com/contact GREEN PARK WIND Saturday 12:00 - 16:00 Sunday 12:00 - 16:00 4 Greyfriars Church TURBINE risc.org.uk Built in 1311, the main elements of Greyfriars survive to this day as the most Sonning Village Tour 12 complete example of Franciscan architecture in Britain, and the oldest still being 2 miles used for worship. In 1863, Greyfriars was restored as a church by the Victorians and Tours of the historical and once Episcopal riverside village has been in use ever since. Guided and self-guided tours. to include many of its historic buildings, most being fine examples of domestic, vernacular or public architecture. 64 Friar Street, Reading RG1 1EH Friday 12:00-16:00 Saturday 10:30 - 15:30 Sunday 14:00 - 16:00 High Street, Sonning, Reading RG4 6UP greyfriars.org.uk Thursday – Sunday Walks at 14:00 Bookings essential: 0118 969 2132 [email protected] sonning.org.uk HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 13 St. James Church 19 Yeomanry House / Family History 27 Visit St Peter’s Church, Caversham Pugin’s very first church design, built in the Norman style Research Centre Guided tours of a historic 12th Century parish church (1840), it was among the first Catholic churches to be Looking for your history of 1538 or 1939, from Abingdon overlooking beautiful Caversham Court Gardens. built in England after the Reformation and is sited over to Redruth? A worldwide library containing nearly 6000 Guided tours will start at 3pm and 4pm on both days. the ruins of Reading Abbey. Find out more about a items including deeds, maps, parish registers and wills, The Warren, Caversham, Reading RG4 7AQ modern Catholic Church, the history of St James and websites and millions of transcribed records. Enjoy tea and Saturday, Sunday 10:30 - 17:00, Tours 15:00 & 16:00 Reading’s Hidden Abbey Project. Guided tours all day. cake while chatting to a genealogist to help you discover For short talks see times shown. the history of your family. 28 Christ Church Reading Forbury Road, Reading RG1 3FD 131 Castle Hill, Reading RG1 7TJ Magnificent Victorian Gothic church, designed by Friday Saturday 11:00 - 16:00, Talks 15:00 Thursday, Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 Henry Woodyer and consecrated in 1862. The interior Sunday 12:30 - 1600 Talk 15:00 berksfhs.org.uk of the church is striking in its sense of scale and is jameswilliam-reading.org.uk 20 largely unchanged since it was completed. Lovely Forbury Band Concert architecture and stained glass. Refreshments available 14 St. Marys Church The Watership Brass Band will entertain you from the and the church’s garden will also be open. Late-18th century chapel with interesting interior, history beautiful Victorian Bandstand with a host of classic tunes. Christchurch Road, Reading RG2 7AR and exhibition of collection of 18th century pottery, The Forbury Gardens, Reading RG1 3BB Saturday, Sunday – open from 11:00 glassware, leather and other items. There will also be an Sunday 15:00 - 16:30 exhibition highlighting the suffering church down the 29 St Laurence Church ages, and across the world. 21 Jelly Tots at The Chalkboard Café Built outside the Abbey Gate for the people of Reading, 14 Castle Street, Reading RG1 7RD Join jelly tots – a pre school art club, making pretend biscuits inspired by Huntley and Palmers in one of past congregants include Jane Austen and Queen Thursday, Friday 10:00 - 14:00 Saturday 09:30 - 17:00 Reading’s historic cafes. Built in In 1891 as a ‘Refreshment Elizabeth, who attended so often that she was allotted stmaryscastlestreet.org.uk Room’ for the people of Reading today, The Chalkboard a regular seat. This 12th century church has many Café still shows off its heritage. ancient features. The church, which is now solely committed to young people, has been uniquely and Palmer Park, The Lodge, Reading RG6 1LF The Rising Sun Arts Centre creatively re-ordered to include glass rooms and a A Grade II listed building originally designed and built by Thursday 09:30 - 16:30; mezzanine floor. Family craft event 10:30am - 11:30am architect Alfred Waterhouse for his wife as a Temperance Friar Street, Reading RG1 1DA House. Some 138 years later it is now used as a vibrant Friday, Saturday, Sunday 09:30 - 16:30 Saturday 10:00 - 15:00 and unique art centre. Delve into the Rising Sun’s history jelly.org.uk stlreading.org through an art exhibition of work created for and about Reading Abbey Quarter Tours the centre, special poetry readings and a guide to the 22 building’s intriguing past in its 25th birthday year. Learn more about the history of the Abbey Quarter, 30 The Church of the Sacred Heart Cafe will be open with homemade refreshments. the former precinct of Reading Abbey and a nationally important historic site. Visitors will be able to enter the The Church is a Victorian Grade II listed building. 26-30 Silver Street, Reading RG1 2ST Abbey Ruins (currently closed for conservation work) Stained windows and Corinthian columns are of particular significance. The church is at the heart of the Polish Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 and find out more about the Council’s Reading Abbey Revealed project, which is supported by the Heritage community, and welcomes other communities. There risingsunartscentre.org Lottery Fund. will be displays on the history of the Polish resettlement Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, RG1 1QH in the UK after the war. Refreshments with home-made 16 Malmaison Hotel – Reading cakes and a supervised area with toys for children. Friday, Saturday Tours: 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, Reputed to be the oldest railway hotel in the world, it Watlington Street, Reading RG1 4EH was designed by Brunel in 1844. During WWII it was used 13:00, 13:30 & 14:00 Saturday 15:00 - 18:00 Sunday 13:00 - 17:00 by the Ministry of Supply and was visited by Churchill. Booking essential: 01189 373 400 Following its closure as a hotel in 1972 and alternative [email protected] uses over subsequent years, Malmaison refurbished it 31 Barbados Heritage Open Day HERITAGE AFTERNOON TEA readingmuseum.org.uk in keeping with the railway theme and reopened it as a Get involved with the Barbados independence 50th hotel in 2007. ThereVisit Malmaison will be a Reading special on exhibition the Saturday showing of 23 St. Giles Church in Reading anniversary celebrations. Meet the team behind the information about the history of the hotel and a selection Getting Around Heritage Open Days and enjoy a buffet style Originally built in the twelfth century, during the English Reading Barbados Heritage project and enjoy a slice of photographs. Freeafternoon entry. Droptea in the in. brasserie at a Civil War, St. Giles tower was garrisoned for the King of home-made sweet bread! Guy Grannum from the Travelling by bus? 18-20 Station Road,special Reading Heritage RG1 offer 1JX price of £10pp. and the upper part was destroyed (1643). The fabric National Archives at Kew will be on hand to help you Check out the route number for each event Saturday 10 September,Enjoy a lazy afternoon 12 noon with - 5pm tea and scones with was restored at the end of hostilities. discover more about Barbadian heritage. clotted cream and sandwiches before treating Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading RG1 1QH reading-buses.co.uk yourself to some delicious cakes. Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 Sunday 12:00 - 14:00 Saturday 11:00 – 15:00 Many of the venues are within Reading Town Centre and Pre-booking is necessary: 0844 693 0660 Heritage AfternoonSaturday 12:00 - 17:00Tea Offer sgilesreading.org.uk are in easy walking/cycling distance of each other. Saturday 10 September, 12 noon - 5pm 32 Life in Brock Keep – Open Hand The Church of the Most Holy Trinity Open Space readybike.co.uk Happy Exploring! Visit Malmaison Reading on the Saturday of The church contains many unusual and beautiful Grade II listed Brock Keep, built 1877 as the armoury Heritage Open Days and enjoy a buffet style furnishings including the famous Pugin Screen and an and gatehouse of Brock Barracks, home of the Royal afternoon tea in the Chez Mal brasserie at a altar set by Martin Travers from Nashdom Abbey. Berkshire Regiment. In the 1980s the Keep found a new Daily tours of the crypt/catacombes (not Sunday). Facebook.com/readingheritageopendays SPECIAL HERITAGE OFFER PRICE OF £12PP use: providing artist’s studios. Learn more about its Oxford Road Reading, opp. Russell Street @LivingRdgEvents Pre-booking is necessary: 0844 693 0660 100 years of military history, time as a shelter, and Thursday, Friday 12:00 - 15:00 35 years of artists, some of whom have reached livingreading.co.uk Saturday 11:00 - 15:00 Sunday 11:30 - 12:30 international fame. Tours include heritage and art 17 Rowberry Morris & Co exhibition on ground floor(accessible), plus artists heritageopendays.org.uk SuperHome Open Day – studios on upper floors (unfortunately there is no lift). 16th century house used as an Inn (Castle Inn), a doctor’s 25 Open Hand Open Space, residence and surgery. The building has been used as a Eastern Avenue solicitor’s practice since 1971. Original items retained – Find out what Jonathan Gregory has done to his 571 Oxford Road, Reading RG30 1HL diamond chimneys, coach and horse mounting block, refurbished Victorian 1873 semi-detached SuperHome – Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11:00 – 17:00 shoe carving on the beam timbers. including insulation, solar panels, low energy appliances ohos.org.uk and water saving devices. Full details including directions 17 Castle Street, Reading RG1 7SB will be provided when you register your interest. 33 Berkshire Medical Heritage Museum Saturday 09:15 - 16:30 Eastern Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5RY rowberrymorris.co.uk Look round the small but comprehensive museum Saturday Tours 11:00, 12:00, 14:00 & 15:00 devoted to the history of health care over the last Booking essential: www.superhomes.org.uk/134 250 years, including much about the Royal Berkshire Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information at the time of going to 18 Caversham Court Gardens Hospital itself. A special display about medical care in print. For full access information it is recommended that you contact venues before visiting. A special exhibition “Capability Brown in Berkshire”, 26 Trooper Potts VC & Berkshire WWI, and the key part played by the many War to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the father Yeomanry Memorials Hospitals in Reading. of English landscape gardening. Guided tours (including The life size sculpture depicting Trooper Potts rescue of Medical Museum, Royal Berkshire, NHS Foundation Trust, sensory tours for visually or hearing impaired people) are Trooper Andrews at Gallipoli 1915 was unveiled last year. London Road, Reading RG1 5AN available on Saturday and Sunday. Charity-run Tea Kiosk He became the only man from Reading to be awarded the Saturday, Sunday 14:00 open on site. VC as result. It is also a memorial to the 426 men of the Church Road, Reading RG4 7AD Berkshire Yeomanry who lost their lives in the wars of the 34 Burial Ground & Quaker 20th Century. Children’s quiz available and members of Saturday, Sunday 14:00 - 1700; the Memorial Trust will be on site to answer questions. Meeting House Garden Tours 14:00, 15:00 & 16:00 Opposite the Forbury Hotel, Reading RG1 3EJ Tours of the Quaker burial ground and meeting house. fccg.org.uk Friday 10:00 - 12:00 2 Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Saturday 12:00 - 14:00 Sunday 14:00 - 16:00 Thursday – Sunday Tours at 13:00 th th ADMISSION CHARGE Thursday 8 – Sunday 11 September 2016 HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 13 St. James Church 19 Yeomanry House / Family History 27 Visit St Peter’s Church, Caversham Pugin’s very first church design, built in the Norman style Research Centre Guided tours of a historic 12th Century parish church (1840), it was among the first Catholic churches to be Looking for your history of 1538 or 1939, from Abingdon overlooking beautiful Caversham Court Gardens. built in England after the Reformation and is sited over to Redruth? A worldwide library containing nearly 6000 Guided tours will start at 3pm and 4pm on both days. the ruins of Reading Abbey. Find out more about a items including deeds, maps, parish registers and wills, The Warren, Caversham, Reading RG4 7AQ modern Catholic Church, the history of St James and websites and millions of transcribed records. Enjoy tea and Saturday, Sunday 10:30 - 17:00, Tours 15:00 & 16:00 Reading’s Hidden Abbey Project. Guided tours all day. cake while chatting to a genealogist to help you discover For short talks see times shown. the history of your family. 28 Christ Church Reading Forbury Road, Reading RG1 3FD 131 Castle Hill, Reading RG1 7TJ Magnificent Victorian Gothic church, designed by Friday Saturday 11:00 - 16:00, Talks 15:00 Thursday, Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 Henry Woodyer and consecrated in 1862. The interior Sunday 12:30 - 1600 Talk 15:00 berksfhs.org.uk of the church is striking in its sense of scale and is jameswilliam-reading.org.uk 20 largely unchanged since it was completed. Lovely Forbury Band Concert architecture and stained glass. Refreshments available 14 St. Marys Church The Watership Brass Band will entertain you from the and the church’s garden will also be open. Late-18th century chapel with interesting interior, history beautiful Victorian Bandstand with a host of classic tunes. Christchurch Road, Reading RG2 7AR and exhibition of collection of 18th century pottery, The Forbury Gardens, Reading RG1 3BB Saturday, Sunday – open from 11:00 glassware, leather and other items. There will also be an Sunday 15:00 - 16:30 exhibition highlighting the suffering church down the 29 St Laurence Church ages, and across the world. 21 Jelly Tots at The Chalkboard Café Built outside the Abbey Gate for the people of Reading, 14 Castle Street, Reading RG1 7RD Join jelly tots – a pre school art club, making pretend biscuits inspired by Huntley and Palmers in one of past congregants include Jane Austen and Queen Thursday, Friday 10:00 - 14:00 Saturday 09:30 - 17:00 Reading’s historic cafes. Built in In 1891 as a ‘Refreshment Elizabeth, who attended so often that she was allotted stmaryscastlestreet.org.uk Room’ for the people of Reading today, The Chalkboard a regular seat. This 12th century church has many Café still shows off its heritage. ancient features. The church, which is now solely committed to young people, has been uniquely and Palmer Park, The Lodge, Reading RG6 1LF The Rising Sun Arts Centre creatively re-ordered to include glass rooms and a A Grade II listed building originally designed and built by Thursday 09:30 - 16:30; mezzanine floor. Family craft event 10:30am - 11:30am architect Alfred Waterhouse for his wife as a Temperance Friar Street, Reading RG1 1DA House. Some 138 years later it is now used as a vibrant Friday, Saturday, Sunday 09:30 - 16:30 Saturday 10:00 - 15:00 and unique art centre. Delve into the Rising Sun’s history jelly.org.uk stlreading.org through an art exhibition of work created for and about Reading Abbey Quarter Tours the centre, special poetry readings and a guide to the 22 building’s intriguing past in its 25th birthday year. Learn more about the history of the Abbey Quarter, 30 The Church of the Sacred Heart Cafe will be open with homemade refreshments. the former precinct of Reading Abbey and a nationally important historic site. Visitors will be able to enter the The Church is a Victorian Grade II listed building. 26-30 Silver Street, Reading RG1 2ST Abbey Ruins (currently closed for conservation work) Stained windows and Corinthian columns are of particular significance. The church is at the heart of the Polish Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 and find out more about the Council’s Reading Abbey Revealed project, which is supported by the Heritage community, and welcomes other communities. There risingsunartscentre.org Lottery Fund. will be displays on the history of the Polish resettlement Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, RG1 1QH in the UK after the war. Refreshments with home-made 16 Malmaison Hotel – Reading cakes and a supervised area with toys for children. Friday, Saturday Tours: 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, Reputed to be the oldest railway hotel in the world, it Watlington Street, Reading RG1 4EH was designed by Brunel in 1844. During WWII it was used 13:00, 13:30 & 14:00 Saturday 15:00 - 18:00 Sunday 13:00 - 17:00 by the Ministry of Supply and was visited by Churchill. Booking essential: 01189 373 400 Following its closure as a hotel in 1972 and alternative [email protected] uses over subsequent years, Malmaison refurbished it 31 Barbados Heritage Open Day HERITAGE AFTERNOON TEA readingmuseum.org.uk in keeping with the railway theme and reopened it as a Get involved with the Barbados independence 50th hotel in 2007. ThereVisit Malmaison will be a Reading special on exhibition the Saturday showing of 23 St. Giles Church in Reading anniversary celebrations. Meet the team behind the information about the history of the hotel and a selection Getting Around Heritage Open Days and enjoy a buffet style Originally built in the twelfth century, during the English Reading Barbados Heritage project and enjoy a slice of photographs. Freeafternoon entry. Droptea in the in. brasserie at a Civil War, St. Giles tower was garrisoned for the King of home-made sweet bread! Guy Grannum from the Travelling by bus? 18-20 Station Road,special Reading Heritage RG1 offer 1JX price of £10pp. and the upper part was destroyed (1643). The fabric National Archives at Kew will be on hand to help you Check out the route number for each event Saturday 10 September,Enjoy a lazy afternoon 12 noon with - 5pm tea and scones with was restored at the end of hostilities. discover more about Barbadian heritage. clotted cream and sandwiches before treating Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading RG1 1QH reading-buses.co.uk yourself to some delicious cakes. Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 Sunday 12:00 - 14:00 Saturday 11:00 – 15:00 Many of the venues are within Reading Town Centre and Pre-booking is necessary: 0844 693 0660 Heritage AfternoonSaturday 12:00 - 17:00Tea Offer sgilesreading.org.uk are in easy walking/cycling distance of each other. Saturday 10 September, 12 noon - 5pm 32 Life in Brock Keep – Open Hand The Church of the Most Holy Trinity Open Space readybike.co.uk Happy Exploring! Visit Malmaison Reading on the Saturday of The church contains many unusual and beautiful Grade II listed Brock Keep, built 1877 as the armoury Heritage Open Days and enjoy a buffet style furnishings including the famous Pugin Screen and an and gatehouse of Brock Barracks, home of the Royal afternoon tea in the Chez Mal brasserie at a altar set by Martin Travers from Nashdom Abbey. Berkshire Regiment. In the 1980s the Keep found a new Daily tours of the crypt/catacombes (not Sunday). Facebook.com/readingheritageopendays SPECIAL HERITAGE OFFER PRICE OF £12PP use: providing artist’s studios. Learn more about its Oxford Road Reading, opp. Russell Street @LivingRdgEvents Pre-booking is necessary: 0844 693 0660 100 years of military history, time as a shelter, and Thursday, Friday 12:00 - 15:00 35 years of artists, some of whom have reached livingreading.co.uk Saturday 11:00 - 15:00 Sunday 11:30 - 12:30 international fame. Tours include heritage and art 17 Rowberry Morris & Co exhibition on ground floor(accessible), plus artists heritageopendays.org.uk SuperHome Open Day – studios on upper floors (unfortunately there is no lift). 16th century house used as an Inn (Castle Inn), a doctor’s 25 Open Hand Open Space, residence and surgery. The building has been used as a Eastern Avenue solicitor’s practice since 1971. Original items retained – Find out what Jonathan Gregory has done to his 571 Oxford Road, Reading RG30 1HL diamond chimneys, coach and horse mounting block, refurbished Victorian 1873 semi-detached SuperHome – Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11:00 – 17:00 shoe carving on the beam timbers. including insulation, solar panels, low energy appliances ohos.org.uk and water saving devices. Full details including directions 17 Castle Street, Reading RG1 7SB will be provided when you register your interest. 33 Berkshire Medical Heritage Museum Saturday 09:15 - 16:30 Eastern Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5RY rowberrymorris.co.uk Look round the small but comprehensive museum Saturday Tours 11:00, 12:00, 14:00 & 15:00 devoted to the history of health care over the last Booking essential: www.superhomes.org.uk/134 250 years, including much about the Royal Berkshire Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information at the time of going to 18 Caversham Court Gardens Hospital itself. A special display about medical care in print. For full access information it is recommended that you contact venues before visiting. A special exhibition “Capability Brown in Berkshire”, 26 Trooper Potts VC & Berkshire WWI, and the key part played by the many War to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the father Yeomanry Memorials Hospitals in Reading. of English landscape gardening. Guided tours (including The life size sculpture depicting Trooper Potts rescue of Medical Museum, Royal Berkshire, NHS Foundation Trust, sensory tours for visually or hearing impaired people) are Trooper Andrews at Gallipoli 1915 was unveiled last year. London Road, Reading RG1 5AN available on Saturday and Sunday. Charity-run Tea Kiosk He became the only man from Reading to be awarded the Saturday, Sunday 14:00 open on site. VC as result. It is also a memorial to the 426 men of the Church Road, Reading RG4 7AD Berkshire Yeomanry who lost their lives in the wars of the 34 Burial Ground & Quaker 20th Century. Children’s quiz available and members of Saturday, Sunday 14:00 - 1700; the Memorial Trust will be on site to answer questions. Meeting House Garden Tours 14:00, 15:00 & 16:00 Opposite the Forbury Hotel, Reading RG1 3EJ Tours of the Quaker burial ground and meeting house. fccg.org.uk Friday 10:00 - 12:00 2 Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Saturday 12:00 - 14:00 Sunday 14:00 - 16:00 Thursday – Sunday Tours at 13:00 th th ADMISSION CHARGE Thursday 8 – Sunday 11 September 2016