AudaTours Reading Audio Tour: Biscuit Town
Reading railway station, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7LL
Follow the route in the app with your headphones on and hear Reading through the people who kept it working. This self-guided walk begins at Reading railway station and runs through 14 stops, with about 1 hour of audio and around 2 hours in total including the walk.
It takes in the Town Hall, Market Place, The Forbury, the Oracle, County Lock, Reading Abbey, Reading Gaol, Kings Road Gardens and the river and canal edges at Kings Meadow. Along the way, the stories are tied to biscuit tin painters and the great biscuit factory on King’s Road, brewery draymen on Bridge Street, night-shift seed-packet sorters at the Market Place, abbey corn millers, gaol turnkeys, canal lock-keepers and railway navvies. This Reading version of the tour focuses on everyday labour: the work that filled the town with noise, heat, barrels, paper, coal and rail, and the people whose names were seldom recorded even though their hands helped make Reading the industrial capital of Berkshire.
Timings
Available anytime
Location & directions
Reading railway station, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7LL
- Directions:
- Starts at Reading railway station, visits 14 stops, and finishes at Kings Meadow and Thames Lido, Napier Road, Reading.
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Book on day
- Booking conditions:
- Visit the booking link and click the "Get Tour" button to receive a redemption code. Follow the link to download the AudaTours app, enter your redemption code, and you're ready to go.
- Booking email:
- [email protected]
- Booking website:
- https://audatours.com/tour/united-kingdom/reading/p-3358-biscuit-town
Accessibility details
This is an outdoor, self-guided audio walking tour. The route follows public streets and pavements and does not include access to the interior of any of the sites — they are to be admired from the outside. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.
Additional information
You can start the tour whenever suits you during the festival and pause, resume or revisit it at any point — the route plays at your own pace from your phone. Once redeemed, the tour stays in your AudaTours library so you can come back to it any time. Headphones (or one earbud if walking with a companion) are recommended, and the tour works best in daylight hours.
- Estimated duration:
- 2 hour(s)
