Last night one of David's colleagues came to dinner with his wife and we had a lovely, but rather late, evening. This morning, therefore, we did not get moving very early, particularly as the clocks also changed overnight, moving forward an hour.
However, we had planned to drive to Philadelphia where David has a meeting on Monday and so we set off around midday heading for the city of Reading (in the county of Berkshire). Along the way we passed signs to a number of familiar sounding places such as York and Lancaster and then, a few miles outside Reading, the town of Shillington, which we decided to explore.
In front of Shillington Town Hall, quite a bit of snow remained from last week's storm, despite the sunshine.
The snow was also much in evidence along the residential streets and on the less sunny side of the main street through the town.
In front of the Town Hall is a war memorial.
A little farther along the road we passed a building which had once been the local school, now in use as a shopping and office centre.
We also passed the church..
.. and a breakfast and several shopping opportunities...
Shillington, originally a small town established in the mid-nineteenth century, is now a borough in the suburbs of Reading with around 5,000 inhabitants.
It was fun to visit and to compare with the rather older village of Shillington, Beds.
How lovely that you visited Shillington in America and compare it with your place of birth David in Shillington Bedfordshire UK
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