Darwin Close – The Whitley Pump

Category: Darwin Close

Planning application 180545 : 1 Darwin Close

12 April 2018 — The Whitley Pump

1 Darwin Close
Reading
RG2 0TB

Reading Borough Council discusses Church, Katesgrove, Redlands and Whitley wards at planning applications committee this week

4 February 2018 — The Whitley Pump

Reading Borough Council will be discussing issues in Church, Katesgrove, Redlands and Whitley wards during planning applications committee this week.

Whitley Library: the architecture of hope

2 December 2017 — Matthew Farrall

Whitley library

Whitley library was built in 1935 in the classical and confident municipal style of the time, and is a stand-alone building in smart red brick, with a lovely scrolled Bath stone cartouche at the top with “LIBRARY” written on it. It stands on Northumberland Avenue next to a roundabout at the heart of south Reading. There is a very similar library building in Palmer Park and the style does seem to project a pride in civic life, education and the burgeoning welfare state with that glorious dawn of the National Health Service just a war away.