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ISBN 978-1-905191-07-9 & ISBN 978-1-905191-08-6
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(Please email us on nashfordpublishing@googlemail.com if you would like combo postage for more than one copy or postage outside the UK) Reading pubs and their past are mentioned in many local history books but there has never been such an in-depth study as David Nash Ford's Central Reading Pub Histories in two volumes. Across over five centuries, from 1423 until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, David examines 282 different pubs with 530 different names, all located in Central Reading. This work includes the most comprehensive list of Reading publicans, many from the mid-18th century onwards, some of whom held pub licences for only a few weeks. Learn about the Great Coaching Era, the arrival of the Railway, and the beerhouse revolution. Discover travelling entertainers and healers, swindlers, thieves, prostitutes, murders, suicides, fights, accidents, mysteries, love affairs, elopements, practical jokes, daring rescues and great entrepreneurs. It all happened down the pub. The books are laid out as a pub dictionary, listing pub entries and cross-references alphabetcially. They are A4 paperback, containing 741 pages in total, are illustrated by 388 black and white images, have a 8,483 entry index and cover all pubs in the following Reading Streets old and new:
Why not also check out our popular: Mid-Berkshire Town and Village Histories
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