THROWBACK Thursday will be replaced by sepia-toned Saturday as a South Reading event takes residents for a trip down memory lane.
Whitley Community Development Association (WCDA) will host its retrospective ‘Way Back When’ museum event and AGM on February 4.
Visitors will relive cherished memories through photographs and artefacts featuring the 1945 Victory Day party on Torrington Road, Rabson Rovers’ glory days and frivolities at Ashmead School.
The subsequent AGM will give residents the opportunity to hear about the WCDA’s work and find out how they can get involved.
The Mayor of Reading, Cllr Rachel Eden, attended last year’s event and took in the artefacts on show.
She said: “It was lovely to see pictures and also just chat to people because Whitley has an interesting history and heritage.
“Knowing about our community’s background is really important in terms of our sense of community pride.”
The event offers visitors the ideal opportunity to share anecdotes with friends, as well as meet neighbours they never knew they had.
The Mayor also highlighted the key role the WCDA plays within the community.
“We’ve seen, especially over the last couple of years, how vital coming together as a community is and the WCDA has been a really important part of that in our community.” Cllr Eden said.
“It’s the nice things like the social club, it’s the difficult things like people needing food and particularly at the moment with all the pressures of the cost of living, this is not a problem that’s going to go away. We need to work together and the WCDA can be a really important part of that.”
The Whitley Community Museum boasts just under 5,000 followers on its Facebook page, where pictures showcasing the area’s past are posted daily.
The history event takes place from 10am-noon, after which the AGM will begin.
For more information, search: Whitley CDA on www.facebook.com
