Old Photo Details
Photo ID: 1109
Author: Postcard
Organisation: GhostViewer
Approximate Year: 1979
Location: Reading
Attribution: Photo © Alan Murray-Rust (CC BY-SA 2.0) via geograph.org.uk
Source Type: Photo
Notes:
Dist:1.6km eastThe Huntley and Palmers office block has been demolished and the site is currently occupied by The Prudential [[633458]].
Service 100 was a special service which ran for 3 days to celebrate 100 years of 'The Main Line', running then as today between Oxford Road and Wokingham Road. Originally operating as a horse tramway between the Barracks and Cemetery Junction, it was operated successively by electric trams, trolleybuses - which saw the extension the route to Tilehust in the west and Three Tuns in the east in the 1930s - and finally motorbuses, which even today run to the same terminal points as the trolleybuses.
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This historic photo of Kings Road was contributed by rwjemmett@gmail.com. It dates to around 1979. Location: Reading, Berkshire, England. Source attribution: Photo © Alan Murray-Rust (CC BY-SA 2.0) via geograph.org.uk. This image is used as a source photo for creating GhostViewer before-and-after outputs.
Dist:1.6km eastThe Huntley and Palmers office block has been demolished and the site is currently occupied by The Prudential [[633458]].
Service 100 was a special service which ran for 3 days to celebrate 100 years of 'The Main Line', running then as today between Oxford Road and Wokingham Road. Originally operating as a horse tramway between the Barracks and Cemetery Junction, it was operated successively by electric trams, trolleybuses - which saw the extension the route to Tilehust in the west and Three Tuns in the east in the 1930s - and finally motorbuses, which even today run to the same terminal points as the trolleybuses.
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This historic photo of Kings Road was contributed by rwjemmett@gmail.com. It dates to around 1979. Location: Reading, Berkshire, England. Source attribution: Photo © Alan Murray-Rust (CC BY-SA 2.0) via geograph.org.uk. This image is used as a source photo for creating GhostViewer before-and-after outputs.
Location info:
Location (text): Reading
Country: England
County/Region: Berkshire
City/Borough: Reading
Location precision: Exact
Coordinates: 51.455252, -0.961839
