Reading Ladies’ Boarding School
In 1887, as the population of Reading reached 60,000, the Church Schools’ Company took over the privately owned Blenheim Ladies’ School and renamed it Reading High School
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In 1887, as the population of Reading reached 60,000, the Church Schools’ Company took over the privately owned Blenheim Ladies’ School and renamed it Reading High School
Henry I, also known as Henry Beauclerc, commissioned Reading Abbey and laid the foundation stone in 1121. He did not live to see it completed as he died in France in 1135, from eating too many eels! He was sewn inside a Bull’s hide for the journey back to England and was buried in the Abbey. Henry’s name ‘Beauclerc’ denoted his good education and Henry was probably the first Norman king to be fluent in English.
The Maiwand Lion is a sculpture and war memorial in Forbury Gardens. The statue was named after the Battle of Maiwand and was erected in 1884 to commemorate the deaths of 329 men from the 66th Berkshire Regiment during the campaign in the Second Anglo-Afghan war in Afghanistan between 1878 and 1880.
Reading Museum is based in the Victorian Town Hall in the centre of Reading. It has wonderful archaeology from Roman Silchester and Reading Abbey, the famous Victorian copy of the Bayeux Tapestry and a natural history of Reading – and much more!