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Urban Development Timeline

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  20th Century 1999 A33 Relief Road
  1989 Final stage of IDR
  1968 First stage of IDR
1950 1968 Last Trolleybus service
  1960 Coley housing estate
  1950 Southcote housing estate
  1939 Trams replaced by Trolleybuses
  1931 Whitley housing estate
  1926 Fifth Caversham Bridge
  1923 Reading Bridge built
  1920's Shinfield Rd housing estate
  1919 First Corporation bus service
  1903 Electric Trams introduced
1900 1903 Queen Victoria St built
  Victorian 1899 Reading Borough takes over Trams
  1878 Horse Trams introduced
  1868 Fourth Caversham Bridge
  1860-80 New Town and Redlands developed
  1862 Broad St widened
  1861 Forbury Gardens laid out
1850 1850 Great Knollys St
  Georgian 1840 Oxford Rd developed
  1834 Sidmouth St.
  1830 Third Caversham Bridge
1800 1814 Second Caversham Bridge
  1787 Present High Bridge built
1750 1760 King St built
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1600 1611 First bridge at High Bridge
1550 Tudor
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1200 1231 First Caversham Bridge
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