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Reading Leasing Did You Know?Reading is a large town on the Thames and Kennet rivers in southern England. It’s known for the annual Reading Festival, an outdoor rock music event. Shops and riverside restaurants dot the town centre. The Reading Museum contains exhibits on the town’s history and displays a Victorian replica of the Bayeux Tapestry. The 18th century saw the beginning of a major iron works in the town and the growth of the brewing trade for which Reading was to become famous. ... In the 2011 census, the urban area around Reading had an estimated population of 318,014, making it one of the largest towns in the UK without city status. One reason for the building of the Reading hospital was the large number of serious injuries occurring during the construction of the Great Western Railway.The first patient treated at the Royal Berks was George Earley, a railway worker aged 15. Many famous faces hail from Reading including Hollywood starlet Kate Winslet. A whole host of other celebrities also come from the town including Kenneth Branagh, Ricky Gervais, Chris Tarrant, Jeremy Kyle, Natalie Dormer and Nicholas Holt. During the second world war, Reading was considered a safe town in that it was unlikely to be bombed. Many children from London were evacuated to the town early in the war.But it was not entirely safe. In an air raid on 10 February 1941 41 people were killed and 153 were injured. Reading is well known for the 3 Bs – beer, bricks and biscuits, which laid the foundation for its role in the industrial revolution. In the 19th century, Huntley and Palmer’s biscuit factory was the largest in the world and even provided specially made emergency biscuits to the ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole, led by Captain Scott in 1911. William Blackall Simonds founded ‘Simonds Brewery’ on Broad Street in 1785. Later known as H & G Simonds, the brewery owned and operated 10 pubs in Reading. S & E Collier Ltd, Reading’s largest brickmakers, were established in the mid-19th century and produced the famous ‘Reading Red’ bricks.
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