This is the centre for most
activities in our society other than branch meetings.
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location on the 'StreetMap' site.
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Our
Home
Why not come along to our Research Centre to see what we can
offer you? The Centre re-opened in its new home in Yeomanry House in
May 2000.
The site entrance is in Coley Avenue close to the junction
with Castle Hill. Look out for the signs to Berkshire Record Office and
Reading Register Office.
The site and parking is shared with the Berkshire Record Office and the
Registrar's Office. Adequate parking is normally available.
The Centre has a Computer Suite with a 'broadband
connection' to the internet which is available at all times.
Opening
times
See current
opening hours. The number of sessions is limited solely by the
number of
assistants that are available. Please contact our Research Centre
Manager at
if you'd like to
find
out more about assisting at the Centre, or just come along on one of
the regular library
tours.
Access to the Internet is always available using a broadband
connection.
Travel
by car
Parking for the Research Centre is shared with the Register
Office (also in Yeomanry House) and the Berkshire Record Office nearby
but parking spaces are normally freely available. You can also park in
one of the nearby town centre car parks (e.g. Chatham Street, Broad
Street Mall).
The entrance is in Coley Avenue and shared with the the
Reading Register Office and the Berkshire Record Office. Follow signs
to
the Berkshire Record Office.
Public
Transport
Buses
- There are many buses which pass the Centre on Castle Hill
and then continue down the Bath Road or go down Russell Street and on
into Tilehurst Road. We give below the principal services and times.
The services given often run at different times before 9am and
after 4pm or not at all.
You can check bus times with
Reading Buses on tel: 0118 959 4000 or at
www.reading-buses.co.uk/. These
also give more details
of local buses.
Note: Buses run less frequently
or not at all on Sundays
- 25 CAVERSHAM PARK (Northbrook Road) to CALCOT
(Savacentre) via Reading Bridge - Southcote - Fords Farm -
Beansheaf
every 20 minutes (at 05, 25, 45
mins past the hour) from Reading
Station (stop SW) and Friar Street (stop FR) to Calcot (Savacentre) via
Bath Road
- 45 COLEY - EMMER GREEN - CAVERSHAM PARK -THEALE via
Caversham - Reading Bridge - Southcote - Fords Farm - Beansheaf
every 20 minutes (at 15, 35, 55
mins past the hour) from Reading
Station (stop SW) and Friar Street (stop FR) to Calcot (Savacentre) via
Bath Road. Returns as Service 44
- 102
(Newbury Buses) NEWBURY - READING via Thatcham, Woolhampton and Theale
every
hour (usually 43 mins past hour) from Reading Station (stop SA) via
Bath Road.
- 33 READING - TILEHURST
TRIANGLE - TURNHAM'S
FARM (BIRDS ESTATE) via Tilehurst Road - Corwen Road
every
20 minutes (at 15, 35, 55 mins past the hour) from Reading Station
(stop SD) via Tilehurst Road
- 28
READING - TILEHURST via Bath Road - New Lane Hill
every
hour (10:05 to 15:05) from Reading Station (stop SA) and Friar Street
(stop SQ)
- 143
READING
- TADLEY via
Burghfield - Mortimer - Silchester
every hour (09:50 to
14:55) from Reading Station
(stop SA) via Bath Road
- 149 READING
- MORTIMER via Burghfield
every hour (09:20 to
13:20, 14:30 to 17:30) from Reading Station (stop SA) via Bath Road
Feedback
We'd
be very pleased to hear your suggestions and comments.
Please ask to leave a note in the day book when you visit, write to us
at the Yeomanry House address at the top of this page or email your
comments (but please not research queries) to .
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