Photograph Notes: The Speen Obelisk, as it is now known, was presented to the town in 1828 by then chairman of the Kennet and Avon canal, Frederick Page. The Bath stone pillar became one of Newbury's first gaslights, originally sited at the north end of Northbrook Street Newbury After 60 years the obelisk was moved to the junction of Speen Lane and Old Oxford Road It is a Grade 2 listed building In 1999 local residents clubbed together to turn the monument back into a working streetlight once again, to mark the millennium.

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