Where is this memorial originally from?

[PaulaToo]

Well, it's nice to know that, Thudnut, and I'm glad.

But I bet a lot of them have already been melted down.
Not on, is it.

And while I was posting this, you posted yours, Midnight Runner.
I'll have a look at that link, it will probably stir some memories.

and I did, and it did, and now I've gone all soppy...

[tazzie]

      Great photos   .........   stories like this are what makes this site work for so many people.

   Keep up the good work and best wishes to alll.

                        Tazzie

[johnmiles]

Some more photos for your collection

[johnmiles]

And two more

the second is the War Memorial at Park URC

[Salty]

Absolutely brilliant.

All of you should be so very proud of what you have done. As I hope every one on here is of you.

Salty

[Midnight Runner]

And Harry E Aust's parents were Thomas and Mary Ann Aust of "Carn Brea," Northcourt Avenue, Reading.

Can we find them in 1901?

Nell

A thought struck me this morning while I was looking at the plaque, and the name Aust definitely rang a bell. We used to have a customer, a Mrs Aust, who lived in Warwick Road, which is not more than 1/2 mile from Northcourt Avenue. She was always Mrs Aust, her other half have departed from the scene before we knew her, although my dad might have known him. we never knew her initials,much less her first names.
The striking thing about her house was that it was a time capsule. The electrical wiring was extremely ancient and she had a single bar electric fire with exposed element hung precariously on the wall over her bath. The fuse boxes had both live and neutral fuses of the old ceramic carrier type, and one of them had a bit of fence wire in it. All the pendant lights were of the raising/lowering type with a counterbalance weight which consisted of a ceramic container filled with lead shot.
The inside of the house had not been redecorated for years and years.

Sorry, that has gone way off thread, but I did wonder if there was any connection.

[Rabbit B]

What a fantastic story Rootschatters,
I do wish I had found it before.  What a wonderful job you have done.

Congratulations are in order for all the people involved.  When everthing is done  and dusted please keep us in the picture! I am near Reading too, worked there most of my life!

Thankfully I don't live there, it is not the town it was in the old days! Then it was a country market town and very pleasant.

Scrap yard reclamation yard, 'a rose by any other name and all that'.  You have saved it that is surely what matters!


Rabbit B

[Midnight Runner]

Scrap yard reclamation yard, 'a rose by any other name and all that'.  You have saved it that is surely what matters!


Rabbit B

I am afraid that I have to disagree with you there Rabbit B, If it had gone to a scrap yard it would have been something else by now, possibly two or three times over.
If you go to a reclamation yard you will be welcomed to look around, if you go to a scrap yard for a mooch you will be welcomed by at least a couple of fairly bad tempered dogs.
Reclamation yards are interesting and useful places. Recycling par excellance

[Midnight Runner]

Hello again good people.
John's pic of the WW1 Memorial Plaque at Park U.R.C. having not come out too well, I took one of it this morning. For you camera anoracks the exposre was 1/5th second at f2.8, and it was hand held, I thought not bad for someone of my advanced years.

Perhaps I should say now that there might be a problem locating the Trinity Plaque at Trinity Hall because it is so big. I did have some doubts when I saw it Friday and showing it to two people involved with Trinity hall yesterday they too expressed some concern. However, we shall continue to work at it.