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| December 20, 2009, 3:54pm |
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Great photo-I,m trying to get my bearings...
What is the building work going on on the right just in front of the lorry.. iI think the Pub on the immediate right is The Bricklayers..If it is I know where i am My photo isn't that clear..
The pub on the immediate right is the long gone Falkland Arms which was about where the car park, Bartholomew Street entrance to Kennet Shopping is now. If you look above the top of the little van, you can see a Simond's Hop Leaf sign, later to be Courage at Reading, for the Brickie's. All of what you see on the right hand side of the road as far as that pub has been replaced by KS. Here is the rest of the Street looking North showing the Regal and of course on the right the Bricklayer's.
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| brian |
| December 20, 2009, 4:02pm |
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Pre bollards but a later photograph.
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| blackdog |
| December 20, 2009, 4:06pm |
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Great photo-I,m trying to get my bearings...
What is the building work going on on the right just in front of the lorry.. iI think the Pub on the immediate right is The Bricklayers..If it is I know where i am My photo isn't that clear..
The pub on the right is (was) the Falkland Arms, the Bricklayers is further up (you can just make out its sign - see zoomed image below). On the right is the building that was demolished to build B&Q, now the George & Pelican. Not sure what the building work was - whatever it was it went to make way for the Kennet Centre along with almost all the other buildings on the right.
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| brian |
| December 20, 2009, 4:22pm |
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On the right is the building that was demolished to build B&Q, now the George & Pelican.
Do you mean on the left. The tall three storey building to the left/north of the demolishment (is that a word ?) is the old Trustee Savings Bank. |
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| brian |
| December 20, 2009, 4:40pm |
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Just for curiosities sake while we're on the subject, here is a picture of the Bricklayers dated at about 1920 which shows a couple of points of interest. The frontage in this picture by the way is not all that taken up by the current pub. The left side which is now the main pub was actually a couple of shops then.
First is the entrance which led through to the Market place coming out through the side of the Catherine Wheel. The exit is still there but closed off for the smokers?.
The other thing is that alongside the original small pub are shop frontages so the purple painters were not painting, should they have got that far, historic brickwork.
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| blackdog |
| December 20, 2009, 8:16pm |
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Do you mean on the left.
I did indeed. |
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| blackdog |
| December 22, 2009, 5:53pm |
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The other thing is that alongside the original small pub are shop frontages so the purple painters were not painting, should they have got that far, historic brickwork.
But they did get that far - just.
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| brian |
| December 22, 2009, 8:54pm |
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But they did get that far - just.
Mmm, maybe but that is not the original window casement. The earlier picture shows a sandstone lintel above it which looks in better repair than the replacement brick arch which is beginning to sag. No doubt the bricks were salvaged for the 1920ish changed frontage. |
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| December 31, 2009, 4:20pm |
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Here is another view: The building on the right was the old Guildhall Club, which eventually became the Trustee Savings Bank, before being demolished to make way for the Kennet Shopping Centre |
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Do you know what the date of the first picture is in this post. First look suggests it is 1970 by the title, but is several years later - Capri's were not around then, and I think the foreground car is M or N registered, dating after July 1974 or July 1975. My guess is it is a lot nearer 1980 than 1970
It is a pity not more of the pictures are actually dated. |
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Do you know what the date of the first picture is in this post. First look suggests it is 1970 by the title, but is several years later - Capri's were not around then, and I think the foreground car is M or N registered, dating after July 1974 or July 1975. My guess is it is a lot nearer 1980 than 1970 It is a pity not more of the pictures are actually dated.
Capris came out in 1969. There's no Ford with big rectangular headlights, which might suggest it is on or before 1974, the year they started to do this. Anyone notice the Ford Escort Mexico, or maybe Lotus Cortina with the blue stripe? |
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Looks like a Morris Marina to me. |
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Just to compliment the photo of Bartholomew street above which shows the Regal on the left, this is what it looked like before the Regal. The adjacent shop with the double gabled roof is still there, but has been split into two shops.
The second picture is looking South towards Craven Road, a bit further up the street.
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Once again, brilliant nostalgia, and I've just remembered where I parked my car.
But I am still looking for the place I was born, Hooper & Ashbys in Bart Street....all to no avail |
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This shot of Bart St is a little more difficult to get your bearings but the inevitable clock tower is in the picture
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