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Thumbnail for A crowd outside Reading Town Hall, seen from above, at a public meeting on 4 August 1915 to mark the first anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. From the dais, speeches were made by the Rt. Revd. William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, and Rufus Isaacs, the Baron Reading. In the background, in Friar Street, Nos. 10, 9, 8 and 7 (The Queen's Hotel); Nos. 6 and 5 (The Wheatshead Hotel); Nos. 4 and 3 (the garage of the Berkshire Voluntary Aid Transport Service). No. 1 Blagrave Street (Sydney Oades, surveyor, valuer, insurance agent) is also recognisable. 1910-1919

A crowd outside Reading Town Hall, seen from above, at a public meeting on 4 August 1915 to mark the first anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. From the dais, speeches were made by the Rt. Revd. William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, and Rufus Isaacs, the Baron Reading. In the background, in Friar Street, Nos. 10, 9, 8 and 7 (The Queen's Hotel); Nos. 6 and 5 (The Wheatshead Hotel); Nos. 4 and 3 (the garage of the Berkshire Voluntary Aid Transport Service). No. 1 Blagrave Street (Sydney Oades, surveyor, valuer, insurance agent) is also recognisable. 1910-1919

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