It's a city that can be annoyingly hard to Google. If, for example, you search for "Reading Library" you basically get ALL THE LIBRARIES... :)
replyIt's still a town (despite efforts to the contrary).
replyI actually lived there for a few years, I guess I'd forgotten that the millenium bid fell through :)
replyEdit: By the by I do intend to visit again at some point if only to see the DEC exhibition at the town museum (if that's still on) and perhaps swing by Sweeney's pie shop (if that's still open).
Oh, and now I see from a sibling comment that there was another bid in 2022! It gives me a twinge of national pride that British rules on City-hood are so weird!
DEC exhibition closed 10 months or so ago, but the museum is still worth visiting for the copy of the Bayeux Tapestry.
replySweeney Todd is still open :)
> DEC exhibition closed 10 months or so ago
replyDamnit.
I can't imagine Swindon being a better town to know than Reading, though.
replyI know both Reading and Swindon quite well, and prefer Swindon. Subjective, obviously.
replywhen I worked in Swindon (Intel fwiw), HR told all the Americans “draw a circle 15 miles radius around Swindon station and live outside it”
replyI heard similar about Croydon.
replyInstructions unclear, living 15 miles out to sea.
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