Abbreviation
|
Description
|
Location
|
Dates
|
ARC
|
Agricultural Research
Council |
|
|
| AWRE |
Atomic Weapons Research
Establishment
|
Aldermaston and Harwell |
1960s to 1990s? |
BAV
|
Berkshire Aviation
Company
|
East Hanney |
1920's |
BBCM
|
British Broadcasting
Company Monitoring
|
Caversham |
20th cent |
BBFA
|
Berks and Bucks Football
Association |
|
|
BC and BCON
|
Berkshire Constabulary |
|
19th/20th cent |
BFBC
|
Bracknell Forest Borough
Council |
|
from 1990s |
BH
|
Battle Hospital
|
Reading |
|
BRDC
|
Bradfield Rural District
Council
|
Bradfield |
|
BSB
|
Blackall Simmonds
Brewery
|
Reading |
|
CRCH
|
Canadian Red Cross
Hospital
|
Taplow, just in Bucks |
|
DB&Sons
|
Dymore Brown & Sons
Brewers
|
Reading |
1930's |
ECMWF
|
European Centre for
Medium range Weather Forecasting
|
Shinfield
|
1980s onward
|
GCA
|
Greenham Common Airfield
|
Greenham |
WW2 to 1990s |
GPO
|
General Post Office |
|
|
GRI
|
Grassland Research
Institute
|
Hurley |
|
H&P or HP
|
Huntley & Palmer
|
|
|
HP
|
Hewlett Packard |
|
1980s, 1990s
|
HB&S
|
Huntley, Boorne and
Stevens Biscuit tin makers
|
Reading |
19th cent |
HIF
|
Hedges Iron Foundry
|
Bucklebury |
1880's |
IB
|
Intervention Board
|
HQ in Reading |
1980s & 1990s
|
IBAP or IBAP or IBEA
|
Intervention Board for
Agricultural Produce
|
HQ inReading |
1980s & 1990s
|
| IPA |
India Pale Ale (beer
invented in Reading) |
|
|
JSCSC
|
Something like Joint
Services Combined Staff College - on the RAFSC site |
|
temporarily in the late
1990s |
| LDV |
Local Defence
Volunteers (Forerunners of the Home Guard WW2) |
|
|
LPTB
|
London Passenger
Transport Board
|
|
1933-1939
|
M & L
|
Mosdell and Lovell
(Brick Kilns) |
Mortimer |
19th cent |
MetO formerly MO
|
Meteorological Office
|
HQ in Bracknell
|
1962-2003
|
MGFC
|
Mortimer Garth Football
Club
|
|
early 20th cent |
MIH
|
Maidenhead Isolation
Hospital
|
Maidenhead |
mid 20th cent |
MMPCo
|
Miles Martin Pen Company
(the first makers of Biros in England) |
Reading |
1950's |
N & N
|
Nalder and Nalder
(Foundary) |
Challow Wantage |
|
NIV
|
National Intervention
Board
|
Reading |
|
NIRD
|
National Institute for
Research and Dairying
|
Shinfield |
|
NML
|
National Meteorological
Library, Meteorological Office,
|
Bracknell |
1962-2003 |
| RAE |
Royal Aircraft
Establishment) for many years from the Great War until recent times
when it became DERA (Defence E... Research ...) and more recently
QinetiC. Had an outstation near Sandhurst in the 1960s |
|
|
| RAF |
Royal Aircraft
Factory at
|
Farnborough, Hant |
prior to 1918 |
RAFSC
|
RAF Staff College
|
Bracknell |
closed in 1990s |
RBH
|
Royal Berks Hospital
|
Reading |
|
RBR
|
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
|
|
RCB
|
Royal County of Berkshire |
|
|
RCT
|
Reading Corporation
Tramways |
|
|
| RTC |
Reading Tramways Company |
|
earlier than 1903 |
RIW
|
Reading Iron Works |
|
1880's |
RMA
|
Royal Military Academy
Sandhurst |
|
|
RPA formerly IB et al)
|
Rural Payments Agency
|
Reading |
|
RRL
|
Road Research Laboratory
|
Crowthorne |
from 1966 |
RRL
|
Reading Reference Library
|
|
|
RUL
|
Reading University
Library
|
|
|
SOWC
|
South Oxfordshire Water
Company (Thames in Berks) |
|
|
SS
|
Suttons Seeds
|
Earley
Reading |
from 1807 to 1990s |
| TRL |
Transport Research
Laboratory or Transport Research Limited (after privatisation) |
|
|
TRRL
|
Transport and Research
Laboratory |
|
|
TVSB
|
Thames Valley Savings
Bank |
|
|
W&BC
|
Wilts and Berks Canal |
|
|
| W&S |
Wiggins and Sankey
(Builders Suppliers)
|
Southampton Street,
Reading
|
1950's - |
WGP
|
Windsor Great Park |
|
|
WHGA
|
Womens Home Guard
Auxillary (WW2) |
|
|
WWA
|
White Waltham Airfield
(WW2) |
|
|
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