The weir at Fobney Island
In July 2018, the multi-disciplinary artist Peter Driver set out on a three day pilgrimage from the Stanley Spencer Gallery in the village of Cookham to the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere. A Walk for Stanley is a travel diary that captures the journey in photos, sketches, woodcuts, sonnets and prose.
Katesgrove Community Allotment – July 2019
The August programme for tutored sessions run by Food4Families at Katesgrove Community Allotment on Plot 65 at Waterloo Meadows has been published.
There were 17 new planning applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Waterloo Meadows Allotments – 2016
Additional tutored sessions at Katesgrove Community Allotment have been organised for July. The first is on Saturday 6 July from 9am-11am.
The Katesgrove neighbourhood policing team will be at the Katesgrove Community Association (KCA) Meeting. This will be on Wednesday 10 July at 7.00am at the Children’s Centre, Waterloo Meadows, Elgar Road, Reading.
The Katesgrove neighbourhood policing team will be at the Katesgrove Community Association Meeting on Wednesday 8 May at 7.00pm at Waterloo Meadows Children’s Centre, off Elgar Road, Reading.
The Katesgrove Community Association (KCA) has organised a spring into Katesgrove event at Waterloo Meadows for Saturday 23 March.
KCA noticeboard
The Katesgrove neighbourhood policing team will be attending the Katesgrove Community Association meeting on Wednesday 13 March at 7.00pm at Katesgrove Children’s Centre, Waterloo Meadows, Elgar Road.
Waterloo Meadows clean-up, 13 October 2018
Thames Water, the Katesgrove Community Association and the Friends of Waterloo Meadows will join together on Saturday 9 March to clean litter from Waterloo Meadows.
The Katesgrove neighbourhood policing team will be at the Katesgrove Community Association AGM on Wednesday 9 January at 7.00pm at Children’s Centre, Waterloo Meadows, Elgar Road, Reading.
Volunteers are needed to help the Friends of Waterloo Meadows clean up the meadows on Saturday 13 October.
Thames Valley Police are appealing for witnesses to a robbery and an attempted robbery near the Katesgrove Children’s Centre at Waterloo Meadows, Elgar Road, Reading on Tuesday 25 September.
Katesgrove based carry-on country band the Rumpo Kidz and the bard of Elgar Road Nigel Pounds crossed borders into Hampshire last Saturday to perform at the White Hart, a lovely big old boozer at the old end of Basingstoke town. After negotiating the consumer-Narnia of a shopping mall at the heart of the new Basingstoke, our redbrick troubadours traipsed through the heavy rain with all their gear on their backs.
160 Basingstoke Road
Reading
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192 Elgar Road
Reading
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The Katesgrove Community Allotment at Waterloo Meadows off Elgar Road will run free, tutor-led sessions from 10am until 12 noon on Saturday 13 January, Saturday 10 February, and then weekly from Saturday 3 March.
Hoardings have gone up around the former Lok n’Store site on Berkeley Avenue. Site clearance work is taking place behind the metal barriers.
Continuing our series of photographs of Alpine Street grit bins, the 2017 model is in place and pictured above.
Two of the bollards at the junction of Waterloo and Elgar Roads by the bottle banks disappeared last week.
Waste and rubbish collection services in Reading are struggling to meet targets set for recycling and Reading Borough Council (RBC) will target four areas where contaminated recycling bins are an ongoing problem.
