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Published: Wed, 24th Sep 12:00PM
DO you know the story of this weathervane at Sonning?
It shows a priest in a pulpit, preaching to three empty chairs. The gentleman who gave me the picture postcard told me that it had been put up to shame an unpopular priest into resigning.
Published: Wed, 17th Sep 8:00AM
LAST month we published a photograph and memories about the 79th Reading Scouts.
Published: Thu, 11th Sep 12:00PM
BEFORE embarking on this week’s mystery scene, perhaps I should say that the well in the photograph published on the Retro page on June 26 has been identified.
Published: Wed, 3rd Sep 4:00PM
I AM afraid it has taken the library more than 11 years to find the answer to a question posed by a lady in North Carolina in the USA.
Retro: War grave puzzle solved 
Published: Tue, 2nd Sep 12:00PM
A CHRONICLE reader has solved our most recent Retro mystery.
Published: Thu, 28th Aug 6:00AM
ANOTHER postcard from the Reading studios of Mr H A Giles this week. The picture was probably taken in the 1930s, and I’m keen to find out where this cemetery is.
Retro: Hand ringing the changes
Published: Thu, 21st Aug 12:00PM
BACK in April on this page we had a photograph of the bell-ringers of St Giles’s Church, on an outing to Appleton in 1920.
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