Tati The Sentinel
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Posted: Oct. 11 2009, 18:35 |
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Just returned from a trip to Reading today,and based on Mike's comments on Changeling,I did find a few places he described on the book(of course that I did check on the map before going). Pity that he didn't mention his former houses' numbers in Reading,only on Harold Wood,but at least I could feel the atmosphere of being there and so on.
First I went to Western Elms Avenue,where Mike lived when he was 3,4 years old 'til the Oldfields had moved to Harold Wood.Lovely place,with lots of trees around and so quiet.
If you go up on Western Elms Avenue,turn right and after a few steps you'll find St Edward's Prep School,one of the places he studied.With a short walk from there I went to Monks Way,where Mike lived when he was still a baby until their move to Western Elms Avenue,a very calm street full of small semidetached houses,with a wonderful view from the end of the street.
Near Monks Way you can see Elvian College(formely Presentation College),another school that Mike attended as a kid.Gosh,it's so huge...but we all know that Mike's memories from there isn't that great at all,ha ha.
It was a sunny and cold day,and of course that I took a lot of pics that I'll post somewhere for you to see. Being on all those places after reading Changeling was very special to me,because during the reading I've always imagined what they look like,and now I can get the spirit!
I really enjoyed every moment of it,and next it's a visit to Harold Wood,which every time I travel from Colchester to London(at Liverpool Street) the train passes by,but there's no calling at there.
More Tubular adventures to come soon!
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"But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014
"I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011
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these days, as it's always been a railway station to me). That's about 10 miles away, Oxford is 15, but there's probably no busses running. I hate busses dirty smelly polluting things, ended up behind one in Coventry, with 2 people on it belching diesel fumes into my car. 
