A second memorial lies at St Laurence’s Church, in Reading town centre, erected by his fellow workers to honour his memory. <\/p>\n
Over the years, it was renewed by Henry’s brother George, his niece and much later the Reading Corporation.<\/p>\n
It was not the only time the town was hit by the extreme weather phenomena, said Burt.<\/p>\n
On 13 June 1998, Lower Earley experienced a tornado, which caused considerable damage and left several people injured after walls fell over, the professor said.<\/p>\n
“People are surprised that we get tornadoes in this country but we get typically 35, 40 a year.<\/p>\n
“We know of at least seven tornadoes in the Reading area, including Henry West’s incident in 1840.<\/p>\n
“The most recent one we know of for Reading was in June 2016 and we have a very dramatic photograph of a funnel cloud, a tornado if you like, hanging over The Blade and it was certainly something that a lot of people noticed at the time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second memorial lies at St Laurence’s Church, in Reading town centre, erected by his fellow workers to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488130","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=488130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}