Keywords: Market Place, Reading, looking south-eastwards to High Street, c. 1890.jpg en Market Place Reading looking south-eastwards to High Street c 1890 On the east side Nos 20 and 21 Market Place Chambers with signs for Butler and Company auctioneers valuers and surveyors and for Arthur Ayres auctioneer and estate agent ; Nos 19 and 18 Elephant Hotel ; No 17 Frank Cooksey estate agent ; Nos 16 15 14 and 13 London and County Bank ; Nos 12 and 11 Morris and Davis tailors ; Nos 10 9 and 8 Sutton and Sons Royal Seed Establishment ; No 7 Reading Mercury office On the south side No 52 Hill and Company rubber merchants A horse-bus waits outside Cooksey's The Simeon Obelisk with cabmen's shelter behind it is visible to the right and in front of them two delivery tricycles are parked by the kerb 1880-1889 postcard with caption Market Place 1887 by Berkshire County Library from a glass negative by H W Taunt Box 22 No 8574 1890 http //readingimages epixtech co uk/extra/test3 html Reading Borough Libraries Creator Henry Taunt PD-old-80 Market Place Reading Carriages in the United Kingdom Reading in the 1890s Henry Taunt 1890 in England 1890 photographs |