Improvements have been made to pedestrian access at the crossroads at the north end of Elgar Road. Famous for being the meeting place of a road (Elgar), a lane (Katesgrove), an avenue (Berkeley) and a street (Pell), it had become a bit of a bottleneck.
The Central Goods Yard north of the Berkeley Road bridge, features in Reading Museum’s latest exhibition On Track.
Traffic delays are likely on Southampton Street just north of the Crown Street / Pell Street crossroads from 18 to 22 February.
Reading Borough Council monitors weather forecasts from mid November to the end of March and salts all A and B class roads in the district if ice is predicted.
The junction of Pell Street, Crown Street and Southampton Street in the 1970s
Whitley Pump contributor Evelyn Williams met with Reading photographer and author Terry Allsop at the Malmaison Hotel on Station Road over coffee to talk about his life and work. Terry is well known for his two books of photographs Newtown: A Photographic Journey in Reading 1974 and Caught on Camera: Reading in the 70s.
