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#ReadingUK #Patterns #Photography

A building with black walls and window graphics has a recessed entrance where the inner walls, ceiling, and double doors are painted a bright yellow colour. The floor tiles feature a black and white geometric pattern. This entrance to a defunct nightclub is rundown and deteriorating. A padlock and chain keep the doors secure. There is a small key safe near the ground on the right. Friar Street, Reading, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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Are we on, or no?

#LookDown #ManholeCover #Signage #ReadingUK #RDGUK #StreetPhotography #Photography

A row of four manhole covers in a gum-stained, redbrick footpath. The rectangular 'block pavior' covers are filled with some sort of brown aggregate and have triangular metal panels with keyholes in the middle of each side. Across the middle two covers are the letters O and N, with space to the left. The are no other letterforms in the vicinity. Market Place, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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Concealed blades

#Landscape #Turbines #WindPower #SustainableEnergy #RenewableEnergy #ReadingUK #Photography

A tangle of boughs and branches in winter, denuded of leaves. Almost hidden behind the trees is a wind turbine. The flat roof of a low-level building can be seen at the bottom of the image. Oak Way, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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Way Car Out Park

#Roads #Roadsigns #Bollards #Brutalism #Signage #Photography #ReadingUK

Underneath a pedestrian plaza between brutalist buildings is a two lane road. From above, the worn lane markings seem to read "Way Car" and "Out Park." Double-yellow lines and brightly-painted bollards line the thoroughfare. San Francisco Libre Walk, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

An early save the date message.
Acts for East #ReadingUK #Festival have not yet been selected.

#rdguk #community

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The rather grand Waterstones in Reading (it used to be a church)

#Books #Bookshops #Bookstores #Retail #ReadingUK #Photography

A monotone photograph of an interior with a bifurcated staircase and a domed ceiling. At the top of the stairs, through a wide arch, a sign reads "children's bookshop." On the ground floor, bookshelves can be seen through the bannisters. The building was formerly Broad Street Independent Chapel. Waterstones bookshop, Broad Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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ONE

#Signage #Logos #OneStationHill #ReadingUK #Architecture #Photography

The word ONE formed from outlines of basic shapes (two semi-circles, two triangles, and two rectangles) is rendered in metal and applied to a concrete pillar of an office building. One Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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Walk This Way

#Signage #Signs #Parking #StreetArt #ReadingUK #Photography

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#PublicArt #StreetArt #Mural #KevMundy #ReadingUK #RailwayStations #Photography

A night scene, divided in two, horizontally. On top, a modern glass-and-steel building with a distinctive sweeping roof (Reading railway station, Grimshaw architects). Its shape is almost mirrored below by a colourful, extra-large illuminated mural. There are steps to the right of the artwork and an entrance to a pedestrian underpass at its centre. "Rivers, Ruins & Regency" [2024] by Kev Mundy, in collaboration with sculptor Stuart Melrose, is a 51-metre long piece of art, full of references to the people and landmarks of the town. Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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Made fresh daily

#Books #History #Retail #Signage #ReadingUK #Photography

Books, facing out, on black shelves. Above them, a sign reads "New History." Waterstones book shop, Broad Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

The #ParkPoets meet Saturday 17th for #poetry in the park at 11:00 for poetry and Chat, coffee and breakfast. Tutus Ethiopian Table in Palmer Park #Readinguk Berkshire.
You are welcome to join us.
#RdgUk #poem #writingcommunity

51.45818, -0.97406

#StreetPhotography #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography

A nocturnal scene with a deep blue sky. Silhouetted people walk across a paved plaza in the direction of Reading railway station. At the centre of the image is "Pivotal," an illuminated sculpture by Mark Nixon and Viliina Koivisto. Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

@ShadSterling @mcc

I live in Reading. A school friend once sent me a postcard from holiday in the USA, and forgot to put "UK" on the address.

Eight months later, it arrived, with postmarks from four different places in the US, and two in Canada...

#RdgUk #ReadingUK

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#LookDown #Pattern #Photography #ReadingUK

A monotone image with a gravelly surface divided in two horizontally by a cement strip. The top half has a pattern of raised squares, with six squares (in three rows of two) painted white. This is a close-up of curiously subtle parking bay indicators. Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

A monotone image with a gravelly surface divided in two vertically by a cement strip. The right half has a pattern of raised squares with a secondary pattern of six squares that have been painted white, spaced about two metres apart and receding in the distance. These are parking bay indicators. Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

Jan #poetry & #spokenword related events in #ReadingUk #Berkshire
Almost beginning with the big item of the Year the Grand Slam
Check with the organisers for confirmation/tickets.
Date for Bards in the Bar to be announced and Sunset sessions ( #openmic ) is in hibernation till March
#poetrylovers

There's a fireworks display somewhere down near Reading Town stadium (Norcot roundabout) that's been throwing absolutely everything at the sky for at least 10 minutes. Like, multiple bursts a second kind of everything.

More enthusiasm than art, but the enthusiasm is entirely unrestrained.

#RdgUk #ReadingUK

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Another look inside this brutalist multi-storey car park before it's demolished.

#Architecture #Brutalism #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Concrete #Windows #Photography