| Description | (Includes correspondence, newspaper articles and photographs relating to attempts to make the local council preserve and restore the seventeenth century gazebo, which had been in a bad state of repair since the council took over the land in the 1930s. Includes brief histories of the gazebo and photocopied references from books, newspapers and the local history records supplied by the borough librarian. A further campaign to save the gazebo was launched by the Reading Civic Society, the Berkshire Society of Architects, the Berkshire Archaeological Society, the Garden History Society and the Caversham Residents' Association in 1971.) |