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Of all the Urban Readers I've photographed, this was the only one of a person reading while standing...
Seen in Reading in January 2019 is Reading Buses Scania N280UD4 / Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC H45/27F 705 YN66EZS..
nrhp # 72001093- The Pagoda is a novelty building, built atop the south end of Mount Penn overlooking Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. It has been a symbol of the city for more than a century.
Completed in 1908 at a cost of $50,000, this pagoda was intended to be the hotel/restaurant centerpiece of a luxury resort. When plans for the rest of the resort were abandoned, the 7-story wooden building on 10 acres (4.0 ha) of land was donated to Reading in 1911. It is now part of the Mount Penn Preserve, 1,595 acres (645 ha) of municipally-owned land.
The Pagoda is 28 feet (8.5 m) wide, 50 feet (15 m) long, and 72 feet (22 m) tall. Perched on the edge of a cliff, 620 feet (190 m) above the city and 886 feet (270 m) above sea level,[3] it offers a 30-mile (48 km) panoramic view of the city and the surrounding countryside.
Within the top story hangs a tocsin, a massive bell cast in Obata, Mie Prefecture, Japan, in 1739, and formerly installed in a Buddhist temple in either Ogose or Hannō, Saitama Prefecture, just north of Tokyo. Listed on the bell's sides in Japanese characters are the names of its 48 donors and a prophecy about the end of time. The temple was closed in 1881, and later destroyed.
Anti-Japanese sentiment was rampant during World War II, and there were calls to demolish the building. But it was restored in 1949, with the lower story and balconies rebuilt in stone. In 1960, neon lights were installed outlining its roofs. In the 1970s, the Japanese garden was restored, and Japanese cherry trees were planted around the building. LED lights were installed in 2008-09. A webcam on its third floor periodically records and publishes the weather atop Mount Penn.
The Pagoda is owned by the City of Reading but is managed and preserved by the Foundation for the Reading Pagoda. It houses a small café and a gift shop, and functions as an icon for the City of Reading. The Pagoda is also the home of Pagoda Skyline, Inc., a non-profit volunteer organization formed in 1969 to help with the restoration and preservation of the Pagoda, the William Penn Memorial Fire Tower and Skyline Drive.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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50 008 Thunderer stands at Reading with an Oxford - Paddington service. I've just enjoyed Hoover haulage behind her from Oxford.
A couple of months before I'd managed a cab ride from Didcot - Oxford and then back to Reading in her
Another cold and foggy evening sees 50025 after arrival at Reading with the 13:48 Plymouth - Paddington on 20/02/78
Poem 14 from OUTCASTS IN GREENWOOD: Poems inspired by the Medieval Robin Hood Ballads
THE KING'S PARDON
His forearms burly as oak limbs,
His eyes singular as acorns:
I should have known.
The flexed wrist tendoned as leaf veins,
The narrow iris green as chlorophyll,
Were due warning.
When fox and wolf missed the butts
My zeal was sharp for buffeting,
Lugs red from clouting.
An arrow astray; his fist
Is hard as oakwood, seasoned
With sun and smoke.
I croak, and spit out loam;
The oak leaves wreath his snarl.
I cringe, and call him king.
Poem by Giles Watson; reading recorded on 2nd April, 2010.
For further details on the background to these poems, see my Outcasts in Greenwood set, here:
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The pictures are illustrations of the Robin Hood legend, spanning the 15th to the 20th centuries. The photo and the pencil drawing of the King are my own.
A June 2022 trip to Reading to ride the Reading Buses open-topper on service 17 plus a half hour photting passing buses whilst scoffing a meal deal!
240,000 fans attended Reading Rock Festival over the August Bank Holiday weekend this year... this is just one of them
Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
Date: 2019.12.08
Quite the holiday scene at Reading & Northern's Outer Station.
Reading Company EPa 865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on an unknown day in July 1964, Kodachrome by unknown photographer, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Leica M3 DS + Summitar 5cm F2.0 + FUJICOLOR ETERNA Vivid 500T 8547 NEGATIVE FILM + 現代電影 + PrimeFilm7250u
On Sunday 24th October 2021, a large rail replacement operation took place in the Basingstoke area affecting the services of SWR, GWR and Cross Country. This resulted in a nice variety of vehicles turning up throughout the day - in fact 37 different operators were noted supplying 53 different vehicles!
Replacement bus services ran out to Andover, Reading, Winchester and Woking.
Seen in Reading in February 2019 is Reading Buses Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Enviro300 419 YR13PNV.
Reading about Mr.Croup and Mr.Vandemar will prepare us for Halloween!! Don't you think sweet friends?
Reading Company RDC1 9157 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on an unknown day in September 1964, Kodachrome by R. S. Short, Chuck Zeiler collection.