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Creative Caversham – Ally Evans
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 […]
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Community Connections – Len Middleton
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 […]
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Community Connections – Dave Clarke
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 […]
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Creative Caversham – Mark Webber
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 […]
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Creative Caversham – Tara Magee
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 […]
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Creative Caversham – Alan Monk
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 […]
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Creative Caversham – Kate Findlay
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 […]
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Creative Caversham – John Nicholls
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 […]
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Creative Caversham – Carolyn Carter
As a child Carolyn Carter knew what she wanted to be – “an illustrator!”. She tells Elestr Lee how she achieved her dream of becoming an in-house artist for a leading greetings card manufacturer Capturing […]
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Community Connections – Richard Allan
RICHARD ALLAN is Professor of Climate Science in the Meteorology Department at Reading University. He is also the current Chair of Keep Caversham Tidy, the small charity dedicated to eliminating litter, improving public spaces, and […]