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This particular part of Kennet Side has changed very little since I attended Newtown School - the building almost in the centre of the photograph - almost 60 years ago. Behind the school you can just see a gasometer in its downward position. I seem to recall there were two and both dominated the skyline and surrounding houses when they were at their maximum height.

The bridge across the river is the railway line from Reading to London Waterloo.

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Returned here on 10 February - a month after this photograph was taken. Not much had changed - the flood water was slightly deeper and the river was faster flowing. The partially submerged hand rails mark the normal course of the water.

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