UoR Cent. Heritage Kendrick CArea Walkabout: lost Turkish baths, Schools, London Road campus

UoR Centenary Heritage is running a Kendrick Conservation Area walkabout on Thursday 3 December, starting at the south-east corner of South and East Street. It's part of their centenary programme, and the route takes in over 150 years of local history, tracing what the Kendrick area looked like when it was a very different part of town.

The walk focuses on three things that don't exist as they once did: Reading's lost Turkish baths, its old schools, and the former London Road campus. You'll see where they stood and hear about what they were, so the walk works as much as a tour of the neighbourhood as it does a bit of a history lesson. It's the kind of thing that changes how you look at a street you've walked past a hundred times.

It was developed with Richard Bennett, chair of the Reading Conservation Society, and it's the sixth time the society has collaborated with the heritage group. That's a fair bit of local knowledge behind the route, so you're getting more than just a few dates and names.

It starts at 10:00 on the corner of South and East Street, and tickets are £4.99, issued through readingwalkingtours.co.uk via Eventbrite.