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Thumbnail for Bridge Street, Reading, from upstream on the Kennet, showing the two bridges, c. 1898. From left to right: the corporation dust yard; the stables, offices and brewery of H. and G. Simonds; the bridge over the Kennet Navigation; the weir; County Lock; the lock island, with the corporation's scarlet fever and smallpox hospitals and mortuary, with the water tower behind; St. Giles's mill stream and bridge; the louvred buildings of the tannery of C. and G. Philbrick in Katesgrove Lane; and a wooden building advertising the removals and haulage firm of R. Pilgrim. 1890-1899

Bridge Street, Reading, from upstream on the Kennet, showing the two bridges, c. 1898. From left to right: the corporation dust yard; the stables, offices and brewery of H. and G. Simonds; the bridge over the Kennet Navigation; the weir; County Lock; the lock island, with the corporation's scarlet fever and smallpox hospitals and mortuary, with the water tower behind; St. Giles's mill stream and bridge; the louvred buildings of the tannery of C. and G. Philbrick in Katesgrove Lane; and a wooden building advertising the removals and haulage firm of R. Pilgrim. 1890-1899

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