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Reading town centre is a major shopping centre. In 2007, an independent poll placed Reading 16th in a league table of best performing retail centres in the United Kingdom. [105] [106] The main shopping street is Broad Street, which runs between The Oracle in the east and Broad Street Mall in the west and was pedestrianised in 1995. [107]
Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing; Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.
By 1525, Reading was the largest town in Berkshire, and tax returns show that Reading was the 10th largest town in England followed closely by Colchester and Leicester, based on taxable wealth. By 1611, Reading had a population of over 5000 and had grown rich on its trade in cloth, as instanced by the fortune made by local merchant John ...
Reading Town Hall is the town hall of Reading, Berkshire, England. The town hall was built in several phases between 1786 and 1897, although the principal facade was designed by Alfred Waterhouse in 1875. Situated close to the site of Reading Abbey, it is adjoined to the north by the Hospitium of St John and to the south by St Laurence's Church ...
Reading Town played their home games at Scours Lane Stadium, in the Tilehurst area of the town. The stadium has a capacity of 2,000, of which 162 is covered seating. [ 26 ] The record attendance for a Reading Town game is 1,067 against AFC Wimbledon at Scours Lane on 3 May 2003.
Reading Town Hall. Since 1944, the municipal government of the town of Reading comprises a representative town meeting, whose 192 members are elected from eight precincts. [28] [29] [30] Prior to 1944, the town was governed by an open town meeting. The town elects a five-member select board by general election, who serve for overlapping three ...
The town of Reading was an ancient borough, being described as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. The borough was initially controlled by Reading Abbey, but the town gradually gained a degree of independence from the abbey from the thirteenth century onwards.
The remaining Huntley & Palmers building was an arts centre for a while. Reading has a history of grassroots arts movements. The unoccupied 21 South Street, previously a school and an unemployment office, was temporarily squatted by artists in March 1985 [20] and this action eventually led to its becoming a council run arts centre.