{"id":101670,"date":"2025-08-29T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101670\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:59:09","slug":"street-art-to-computer-pioneer-in-reading-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101670\/","title":{"rendered":"Street art to computer pioneer in Reading removed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The street painting paid tribute to Ada Lovelace, who is widely regarded as\u00a0the world’s first computer programmer for working on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.\n<\/p>\n

\n The painting featured her with a yellow headband, equations and the text ‘Ada Lovelace: Engineering Pioneer 1815-1852’.\n<\/p>\n

\n The art was painted on a utility box in Northumberland Avenue, Whitley<\/a>, which recently had St George’s crosses spraypainted on it, alongside a faded graffiti inscription in a Middle Eastern language.\n<\/p>\n

\n It is understood that a masked man was seen painting the crosses on street signs and road markings throughout Whitley, including Long Barn Lane and Cressingham Road.\n<\/p>\n

\n A Reading Borough Council street cleaner had removed the graffiti by around 1pm on Tuesday, August 26.\n<\/p>\n

\n But at that time, the painting on the utility box remained. All street art on the box was seen removed at 7.30pm yesterday (Thursday, August 28).\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n A council spokesperson said: “The council\u2019s graffiti team has been cleaning and repainting road signs and road safety assets which have recently been spray painted, prioritising sites where there was a safety risk to the public.\n<\/p>\n

\n “They have also been repainting a number of other affected highway assets and unfortunately in this instance, it appears that a piece of street art was painted over in the process of that work being carried out.”\n<\/p>\n

\n It is not known what the Middle Eastern inscription means, but similar examples can be found on utility boxes throughout Whitley and East Reading<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n Although it is suspected that the writing is in Arabic, that is unclear, as Farsi uses similar calligraphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The street painting paid tribute to Ada Lovelace, who is widely regarded as\u00a0the world’s first computer programmer for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-101670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}