The businessman who bought Reading Gaol has said he hopes ... Channing Bi speaks to ITV News Meridian about his plans for the future of the gaol The prison has been in the centre of town for ...

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee chairman Julian Knight said the building had to remain publicly accessible in the plans ... car park of the prison which is built on the site of Reading ...

When he was transferred from a prison in London to Reading Gaol, it was supposed to be an ... it might be under a car park, as happened with Richard III in Leicester. Reading Abbey was largely ...

The Reading Prison was immortalized in Oscar Wilde's 1897 poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Built in the mid 1800s, it remained operational until 2013. Beneath Gothic arches and metal walkways ...

Ambitious plans to turn the former Reading Gaol into a theatre space have moved ... Theatre and Arts Reading wants to turn the former prison into an arts hub, but earlier this year claimed it ...

Artistic director of Reading’s Rabble Theater, Toby Davies, was thrilled at the prospect that the street artist had used the prison as his canvas. “In the right hands, this gaol will evolve ...

Beneath Gothic arches and metal walkways, a place of torment has been reclaimed as a place of creative ferment. In 1895, celebrated writer Oscar Wilde — author of The Importance of Being Earnest ...