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Main for Reading Museum

  • Your Visit
    • Opening times
    • How to get here
    • What to see
    • Café
    • Donate
    • Access
    • Museums, My Way
    • Families
    • Group Visits
    • Abbey Quarter
    • St James' Way
    • The Great West Way
    • Your views
    • Our building history
  • Collections
    • Archaeology
    • Art
    • Britain's Bayeux Tapestry
    • Natural History
    • Reading's History
    • World
    • Online Collections
    • Collections Enquiries
    • Image Enquiries
  • What's on
  • Shop
  • Blog
  • Online exhibitions
    • Reading's DIGITAL Revolution
    • Windrush Day
    • Where Do We Go From Here? - Audio Trail
    • Arctic Mirage: Words and Music
    • Oxford Road Stories
    • Oxford Road: Lifespring Stories
    • Reading's 'Little Italy'
    • Huntley & Palmers history
    • Reading Festival 1971
    • Roman Silchester: A Virtual Exhibition
    • Reading Abbey's most famous manuscript
    • VE Day
    • Oh Beautiful World
    • Animal World Art
  • Schools
    • Looking for free sessions?
    • Sessions in Museum
    • Virtual Sessions
    • School Loan Boxes
    • Information for teachers
    • Offers for Home Schooled Children
    • Resources
  • Get involved
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
    • Memory Boxes
    • Sponsor and venue hire
    • Adopt an Object
    • Friends of Reading Museum
    • Museum on Wheels
    • Youth Panel
    • Museum projects
    • Our Green Stories
    • Museum of Sanctuary
    • Roman Britain Reimagined in Reading
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Residents' history and memories

In this section we bring together a selection of contributions from Oxford Road residents past and present. Contributors share both their own memories and stories of living and working along the Oxford Road, as well as history and photographs on behalf of friends and family.

Robert Davey

Barrie Morgan

Virginia Day (nee Fox)

Trevor Hipgrave

Memories of Fredrick William Ackrill

Dorothy Wood

Hannah Cooper: family photographs

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