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Reading Chronicle - sporting images - page 1 of 7

These images provide a snapshot on a sporting theme from almost 40,000 images in the Reading Chronicle collection. This is a large and historically important collection of glass plate negatives taken by the newspaper (then known as the Berkshire Chronicle) between about 1938 and 1964.

All images are copyright Reading Museum Service (Reading Borough Council) 2004

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Olympic torch at Reading in 1948

The torch nears Cemetery Junction

Passing on the torch

Passing on the torch

RAC motorbike clears
the way for the torch

The torch leaves down London Road

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