Market Place, Reading, looking northwards from a high vantage point to St. Laurence's Church, c. 1910. On the west side, Nos. 34-33 (J. S. Salmon and Son, tea merchants); No. 32 (Davies' China Rooms). On the east side, No. 12 (Morris and Davis, tailors); Nos. 11 and 10 (Sutton and Sons, Royal Seed Establishment); No. 7 ("Reading Mercury" office); No. 6 (George Russell Butler and Son, estate agents). The market is in progress, with a number of stalls and barrows visible. The cabmen's shelter obscures most of the Simeon Obelisk. 1910-1919 : postcard, with the caption, "The Market Place, Reading, " overprinted with the message "Kindest Christmas Greetings, " in the Regent Glossy Series