Reading Abbey and Forbury Gardens in Reading Berkshire UK
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Top Tourist Attractions in Reading - Travel England
Top Tourist Attractions in Reading - Travel England:
Basildon Park, Beale Park, Reading Station, Silchester Roman City Walls and Amphitheatre, Kennet & Avon Canal, Reading Museum, Forbury Gardens, Mapledurham House, Caversham Court Gardens, Madejski Stadium, Museum of Berkshire Aviation
MAIWAND LION Forbury Gardens Reading Berkshire
This vid was taken by my last week during Easter Break. Below is additional info off the net about this amazing monument
The Maiwand Lion is named after small village in Afganistan, where 328 men from the 66th regiment died on 27th July 1880.
This 31 Foot tall Sculpture was designed by George Blackall Simonds (1843-1929) and unveiled in 1886, however the Simonds failed to notice the way lions walk, and sculptured this iron lion with legs in such manner that a real lion would fall over if he ever tried to walk this way.
Urban legend has it that when the sculptor realized this very basic error, he committed suicide. In fact, he lived for another 43 years, enjoying his work.
The Maiwand Lion at Forbury Gardens, Reading.
The Maiwand Lion is a sculpture and war memorial in the Forbury Gardens, a public park in the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. The statue was named after the Battle of Maiwand and was erected in 1886 to commemorate the deaths of 329 men from the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot during the campaign in Afghanistan between 1878 and 1880. It is sometimes known locally as the Forbury Lion.
The inscription on the plinth reads as follows:
This monument records the names and commemorates the valour and devotion of XI (11) officers and CCCXVIII (318) non-commissioned officers and men of the LXVI (66th) Berkshire Regiment who gave their lives for their country at Girishk Maiwand and Kandahar and during the Afghan Campaign MDCCCLXXIX (1879) - MDCCCLXXX (1880).
History does not afford any grander or finer instance of gallantry and devotion to Queen and country than that displayed by the LXVI Regiment at the Battle of Maiwand on the XXVII (27th) July MDCCCLXXX (1880).
Despatch of General Primrose.
The regiment lost approximately 258 men out of 500 (reports of the number vary) at the battle of Maiwand, having faced an Afghan army ten times larger than the British contingent. Eleven of the men, protecting the colours, made such a brave stand before their deaths that the Afghans who fought them reported it with great respect. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his character Doctor Watson on the regiment's Medical officer, Surgeon Major A F Preston who was injured in battle.
The sculptor was George Blackall Simonds, a member of a Reading brewing family from Simonds' Brewery. The sculpture took two years to design and complete, and the lion is one of the world's largest cast iron statues. Rumours persist that Simonds committed suicide on learning that the lion's gait was incorrectly that of a domestic cat. In fact, he made careful observations on lions and the stance was anatomically correct despite various African ex-pats disagreeing. He also lived for another 43 years, enjoying continuing success as a sculptor going on to create a statue of Queen Victoria (1887) and a statue of George Palmer (1891). He retired from sculpting in 1903 and worked in the family business eventually becoming its chairman in 1910. In 1922 he temporarily came out of retirement to build the Bradfield war memorial which commemorated the deaths in the First World War of those in the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers which included his son.
The Maiwand Lion features on the front page of one of the local newspapers, the Reading Post, and also on the Reading Football Club crest.
The statue is made of cast iron, weighing 16 tons, cast by H. Young & Co. of Pimlico in 1886. It is supported on a terracotta pedestal. The rectangular pilastered plinth carries tablets recording the names of the dead, together with inscription above. The whole is listed grade II by English Heritage.
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The Forbury Hotel (Reading, United Kingdom)
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The Forbury Hotel (Reading, Berkshire United Kingdom) Hotel
Within Forbury Gardens, this luxury 5-star hotel offers 2 fine dining restaurants and a cocktail bar. Reading Rail Station is a 5-minute walk away.
All of the sumptuous rooms at The Forbury Hotel have espresso machines, luxury toiletries and a Bang & Olufsen TV.
Cerise restaurant serves modern cuisine in sophisticated surroundings.
Newbury, Ascot and Windsor racecourses are a 30-minute drive away.
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Britain In Bloom Judges Given Tour of Green Park
Judges from Britain in Bloom took a tour around Reading, to rate, the towns floral offerings. From Caversham Court to Henley Road Cemetery, from The Oracle to the Forbury, from the Ridgeline Trust to the Lavender Place Community garden, the judges were given a blooming good tour of the town! We caught up with them in Green Park, and hopped aboard a golf buggy which wound its way through the parks greenery, flowers and learnt more about their eco-friendly initiatives.
Our reporter Tom St John certainly had fun, but what did the judges make of the park?
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A ride through Oxford Road in Reading Berkshire England UK , in the background we can listen to the music of Steve Gresswell and his Coalition band.
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Reading is a large town on the Thames and Kennet rivers in southern England. It’s known for the annual Reading Festival, an outdoor rock music event. Shops and riverside restaurants dot the town center.
The Reading Museum contains exhibits on the town’s history and displays a Victorian replica of the Bayeux Tapestry. The ruins of the 12th-century Reading Abbey lie beside Forbury Gardens, a Victorian formal garden.
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Places to see in ( Reading - UK )
Places to see in ( Reading - UK )
Reading is a large town on the Thames and Kennet rivers in southern England. It’s known for the annual Reading Festival, an outdoor rock music event. Shops and riverside restaurants dot the town centre. The Reading Museum contains exhibits on the town’s history and displays a Victorian replica of the Bayeux Tapestry. The ruins of the 12th-century Reading Abbey lie beside Forbury Gardens, a Victorian formal garden.
Reading is a large, historically important town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town. It was an important trading and ecclesiastical centre in the medieval period, as the site of Reading Abbey, one of the richest monasteries of medieval England with strong royal connections, of which the 12th century abbey gateway and significant ruins remain. The town was seriously affected by the English Civil War, with a major siege and loss of trade, and played a pivotal role in the Revolution of 1688, with that revolution's only significant military action fought on the streets of the town. The 19th century saw the coming of the Great Western Railway and the development of the town's brewing, baking and seed growing businesses. Today Reading is a major commercial centre, with involvement in information technology and insurance, and, despite its proximity to London, has a net inward commuter flow.
The first evidence for Reading as a settlement dates from the 8th century. By 1525, Reading was the largest town in Berkshire, and tax returns show that Reading was the 10th largest town in England when measured by taxable wealth. By 1611, it had a population of over 5000 and had grown rich on its trade in cloth. The 18th century saw the beginning of a major iron works in the town and the growth of the brewing trade for which Reading was to become famous. During the 19th century, the town grew rapidly as a manufacturing centre. It is ranked the UK's top economic area for economic success and wellbeing, according to factors such as employment, health, income and skills. Reading is also a major regional retail centre serving a large area of the Thames Valley, and is home to the University of Reading. Every year it hosts the Reading Festival, one of England's biggest music festivals. Sporting teams based in Reading include Reading Football Club and the London Irish rugby union team, and over 15,000 runners annually compete in the Reading Half Marathon.
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