City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

[Parafox]

On 02/12/2021 at 11:34, davieG said:

 

 

A view of Newarke St Bus Station, long gone 60s and Leicester Technical College, now DeMontfort Uni through the Arch of the Magazine. You can also see on the left the part of the Magazine they demolished along with the Bus Station

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Looks like a cold , wet day there yet the bus driver has opened the "air conditioning" windscreen.

[fuchsntf]

21 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Looks like a cold , wet day there yet the bus driver has opened the "air conditioning" windscreen.

Condensation from inside....

Those were the days...Rained inside as well as outside...

[Parafox]

1 minute ago, fuchsntf said:

Condensation from inside....

Those were the days...Rained inside as well as outside...

Were you a bus driver back in the day?

[davieG]

West Bridge with the old Pex building on the left

[Parafox]

12 minutes ago, davieG said:

West Bridge with the old Pex building on the left

I know things progress and along with progress comes change, but the loss of these iconic features is so sad.

[fuchsntf]

6 hours ago, Parafox said:

Were you a bus driver back in the day?

No...Too young...

 Around this period.....4 uncles & 2 Close neighbours were....Plus Lorry drivers...

3 aunties conductresses...and there is always One in the family, I Controller...

[davieG]

 

[davieG]

 

 

 

Jo Mungovin  
On 5 December 1901 the new YMCA building opened in Leicester.  Originally on Market Street the building was described by Thomas Lloyd YMCA Leicester President as - 
“inadequate for the increasing number of young men employed in business houses in Leicester. Attractive facilities had to be made to counteract the temptations of life in a large town presented to men living away from home”.
By 1896, Alderman Albert Sawday became president and began to design a new, Baroque-style home and Christian lecture theatre  in East Street. Now a grade II- listed building and known as 'the Y' it is the oldest surviving theatre in the city.

[Parafox]

On 04/12/2021 at 17:16, davieG said:

 

Oh dear. Not very edifying. 

[davieG]

A bit of history and Leicester's involvement.

 

 

On this day, exactly 6 hundred years ago Henry V, whose mother is buried in Leicester, and his Queen, Catherine of Valois saw the birth of the future King Henry 6th. Buy the time young Henry had cut his first teeth (nine months old) he was King of England and King of France, having succeeded Charles 6th for the latter. In the 6th year of the 1420s, he was knighted at St Mary's de Castro as his government held Parliament in Leicester. He was on his way to hold a great council in Leicester in 1454 when intercepted by the Richard III's dad, at St Alban's, beginning the Wars of the Roses. Leicester would play it's role in those wars ending too. 
However, of all those interesting facts, the finding of a gold effigy of Henry 6 near Market Harborough by a metal detectorist from Leicester is the most amazing. As amazing, is that this object maybe once adorned the Imperial Crown of the Tudors, and bares a striking resemblance in size and colour to the effigy on the replica crown at Hampton Court Palace!

 

 

Now not many people in Leicester would now this.

[davieG]

 

The Red Hill Filling Station, 1987.

The Red Hill Filling Station on the west (northbound) side of the A6 Loughborough Road is a Grade II listed building. It is a rare example of the futuristic ‘Pegasus’ design created by American architect Eliot Noyes for the Mobil oil company in the 1960s. It was listed in 2012.

It was designed to be instantly distinctive and recognisable as a Mobil garage without distracting signs or poles and was used on nearly 20,000 new and refurbished filling stations around the world until the 1980s.

Changes in ownership meant that eventually many were operated by petrol companies other than Mobil. The six remaining circular canopies are thought to be the last surviving examples in the UK and create a unique image when illuminated at night.

[davieG]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

A bit of history and Leicester's involvement.

 

 

On this day, exactly 6 hundred years ago Henry V, whose mother is buried in Leicester, and his Queen, Catherine of Valois saw the birth of the future King Henry 6th. Buy the time young Henry had cut his first teeth (nine months old) he was King of England and King of France, having succeeded Charles 6th for the latter. In the 6th year of the 1420s, he was knighted at St Mary's de Castro as his government held Parliament in Leicester. He was on his way to hold a great council in Leicester in 1454 when intercepted by the Richard III's dad, at St Alban's, beginning the Wars of the Roses. Leicester would play it's role in those wars ending too. 
However, of all those interesting facts, the finding of a gold effigy of Henry 6 near Market Harborough by a metal detectorist from Leicester is the most amazing. As amazing, is that this object maybe once adorned the Imperial Crown of the Tudors, and bares a striking resemblance in size and colour to the effigy on the replica crown at Hampton Court Palace!

 

 

Now not many people in Leicester would now this.

Henry V’s mother buried in St Mary's in the Annunciation, which is also buried below the Hawthorne Building a part of the church is in the cellar of the 4th wing of the Hawthorne Building which was built in 1936, and is open to the public. I always wonder it was more modern building techniques, or just care and attention that unearthed the remains in 1936, but failed to do so before, such as under wing one built in 1895.

 

The Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke was an important burial place for members of the late Plantagenet dynasty. John of Gaunt’s first wife (Constance of Castile) was also buried there.
It is believed that Richard Duke of York (father of two kings and grandfather of one) was also knighted at St Mary De Castro and probably by his young cousin Henry VI.

 

 

 

[Samilktray]

On 04/12/2021 at 17:16, davieG said:

 

Just watched this and I enjoyed it. Granted parts of the city aren’t amazing but I think generally this video does it justice 

[davieG]

Workers at Rank Taylor Hobson Leicester 1941. Making binoculars for the war effort.

[davieG]

Some big name must have been there.

[Suzie the Fox]

3 minutes ago, davieG said:

Some big name must have been there.

I remember that shop very well, when do you think the photo was taken? I would guess around the 80's judging on the clothes people were wearing? 

[davieG]

St Saviours Road unknown date

 

 

Today

 

 

 

Below is also St Saviours Road

[davieG]

New Walk Museum before our beloved Council decided to vandalise it by removing the Staircase.

 

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View of the Magazine before most of it was demolished from St Mary De Castro Church

1950

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Wimpy Menu 1970s used to like these more than the McDonalds and Burger King before they came to town.

 

Used to be one on Granby Street and one opposite the ABC Cinema 

[davieG]

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1969

[davieG]

Then and recently Prince Ruperts Gate.

[Parafox]

On 06/12/2021 at 18:45, davieG said:

 

Some big name must have been there.

 

On 10/12/2021 at 15:53, davieG said:

New Walk Museum before our beloved Council decided to vandalise it by removing the Staircase.

 

,Schoolboy memories of going there from Gateway Grammar school during my lunchbreak or after school. I loved the giraffe and IIRC, there was also a pool with coy carp in it.

Edited 13 December 2021 by Parafox

[davieG]

Gallowtree Gate 1960s

 

Haymarket / Belgrave Gate - no date.

 

Pocklington`s Walk and The Town Arms on the right. With the Registry Office across the road.