WE RECENTLY learned of the passing of retired British Cross- Country runner, Stanley Edward Eldon. Stan contributed a regular sports column to this paper through the 1970s and ‘80s. He also ran sports shops in […]
IRENE AND I had a lovely chat at Spill! in Caversham on a crisp September afternoon. Irene was wearing a special jumper she has recently created using wool she sourced nearby, which she had spun, […]
Life lesson out of clay ALLY EVANS has a busy job as a primary school teacher in Caversham, but she always manages to keep one day a week for her ‘brain space’ – time when […]
LEN MIDDLETON is a people-orientated person with a great sense of humour. Originally from Scunthorpe, in North Lincolnshire, Len is a graduate of the University of Bradford and has dedicated his career to software development […]
DAVE CLARKE, the newly elected Green Party councillor for Thames Ward, is a doctor by profession, working as an A&E consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH). After growing up in the Midlands, he did […]
Drawn to Art THOSE WHO enjoy the visual arts might assume that painting and drawing have a fundamental place in art schools: in fact, the opposite is true. “Nowadays,” explained Mark Webber, alumni of the […]
Cheers to Tara as Loddon wins national award While some struggle to achieve creativity, for others creativity pours out of them – and it’s definitely true of Tara Magee, Head Brewer at Loddon Brewery. Elestr […]
Age of the train – made in miniature In 1975, seven-year-old Alan Monk knew just what he wanted: a Hornby Great Western Railway freight set…lighting his life-long passion for model railways, as he told Elestr […]
Picking up the thread TEXTILE ARTIST Kate Findlay vividly remembers the moment her passion for art was kindled: when her mum took her to London to see a Turner exhibition. “I remember looking at his […]
Touching Beauty WAITING FOR his wife on the steps of York Minster, John Nicholls noticed some new carving around the West Door and thought how wonderful it must be to work in stone. The opportunity […]
Dr Alison Johnston, Caversham Bridge, 2017 (Editors Login)