New Owners - Redwood Watch

[rabidbee]

Not all men in capes are heroes.

[Brogue]

Not all men in capes are heroes.

Any man who attempted to enter Geoff is pretty heroic, in my eyes.

[Linden Jones' Tash]

The pronunciation of Reading as 'Red-ing' provides a clue to its Saxon origins. Historians believe its name links to a group or tribe of early Saxons, the Rēadingas in Old English, who settled here in the 500s AD. So, it probably means 'Reada’s people'. It has been suggested the name Reada means ‘the red one’.

Fair dos, I mis remembered Saxons as Vikings - but the date (c 1,500 years ago) and Red Haired one are legit - so I'm still miffed

[Sutekh]

The pronunciation of Reading as 'Red-ing' provides a clue to its Saxon origins. Historians believe its name links to a group or tribe of early Saxons, the Rēadingas in Old English, who settled here in the 500s AD. So, it probably means 'Reada’s people'. It has been suggested the name Reada means ‘the red one’.

Fair dos, I mis remembered Saxons as Vikings - but the date (c 1,500 years ago) and Red Haired one are legit - so I'm still miffed

The first battle of Reading occurred just after the Battle of Englefield and exactly 1000 years before the club was founded (just for reference the second battle was in 1688). In 871 a force of Danish Vikings led by led by a couple of chaps called Bagsecg and Halfdan Ragnarsson defeated a West Saxon force led by Aethelred and his brother Alfred (later the Great). The Saxons went on to defeat the Vikings (4-0 in a third replay).

The battle is thought to have taken place near the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet which these days I think is somewhere round Cemetery Junction near the BIG Tesco.

Reading was a Saxon settlement and probably should be pronounced Reading as in what you do to a book (if you still use them).

[Extended-Phenotype]

The pronunciation of Reading as 'Red-ing' provides a clue to its Saxon origins. Historians believe its name links to a group or tribe of early Saxons, the Rēadingas in Old English, who settled here in the 500s AD. So, it probably means 'Reada’s people'. It has been suggested the name Reada means ‘the red one’.

Fair dos, I mis remembered Saxons as Vikings - but the date (c 1,500 years ago) and Red Haired one are legit - so I'm still miffed

I have an old map embedded in a coffee table that spells Reading as “Redding”. Do with that what you will.

[Sutekh]

For beads in Reading the place to be heeding is Reading Beading.