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r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9h ago
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I believe this is a music festival healing in Reading (city in UK)
Edit: to people responding, apologies. Where I’m from city and town are used interchangeably.
7 u/QuirkyImage 8h ago It’s a town it has never been given city status 10 u/chin_waghing 8h ago Nope, not a city. It’s the largest uk town 3 u/Zr0w3n00 8h ago Reading is, pretty famously, not a city, it’s the biggest town in the UK. It has tried to become a city a few times and been turned down. 1 u/Area51Resident 5h ago The City of Town, perhaps(?) Any Touch of Cloth fans out there? 1 u/Nothos927 7h ago Reading has tried and failed to become a city so many times that there’s a bunch of local memes about how the royal family have hated the town since the times of Victoria since it’s the monarch that ultimately has the power to make new cities.
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It’s a town it has never been given city status
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Nope, not a city. It’s the largest uk town
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Reading is, pretty famously, not a city, it’s the biggest town in the UK. It has tried to become a city a few times and been turned down.
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The City of Town, perhaps(?)
Any Touch of Cloth fans out there?
Reading has tried and failed to become a city so many times that there’s a bunch of local memes about how the royal family have hated the town since the times of Victoria since it’s the monarch that ultimately has the power to make new cities.
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u/DistractedBoxTurtle 8h ago edited 8h ago
I believe this is a music festival healing in Reading (city in UK)
Edit: to people responding, apologies. Where I’m from city and town are used interchangeably.