Holme Park is a sports ground in Sonning (occasionally called Sonning-on-Thames), a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, a few miles east of Reading.
Reading RFC had a nomadic existence until, shortly before the Second World War, the land at Holme Park was purchased and the pitches laid.
The current clubhouse was built through the efforts of Gordon Richens in 1968 and was expanded, with squash courts added, by Colin Barrett in 1975.
Alastair McHarg, capped 44 times by Scotland, was a vociferous opponent of the Hall buy-out.
He said "The good thing about the Phil Hall deal is that at least it has shaken up some people to get their act together.