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City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

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Jo Mungovin 
A bit of medieval  Christmas joy..... Henry VI was not impressed with us Leicester lasses. ...... 
King Henry VI spent the Christmas of 1459 at Leicester Castle. The most extravagant displays of excess during the holiday season took place during the seemingly endless rounds of banquets, balls and sporting events staged to entertain the throngs of guests and on-lookers throughout the Twelve Days of Christmas. This was the court at its most visible - commoners could catch an all-too-rare glimpse of the royal family as they processed to the tournament grounds in their finest fur-lined attire. If they were lucky, the poor could also dine as kings - or least on scraps from the king's great table.Not only were as many as twenty-four courses offered at each banquet, but it was expected that the royal kitchens would cook far more than needed for these grand feasts - not only to impress the company, but for the express purpose of feeding the needy when the night's merriment had drawn to a close. 
In turn, the town folk frequently favored the court with glad tidings of their own. Carolers, jugglers, mummers, magicians, actors, musicians, poets and bards would throng the halls and add their talents to the evening's entertainment. Usually the court found such past times highly amusing, but not always. The prudish Henry VI was downright furious when a group of local lasses, hired by a mischievous young lord, bared their bosoms and proceeded to dance provocatively before the king and his men. "Fie, fie, for shame!" were Henry's parting shots as he dashed to his privy chambers.

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High Street in 1965 - photo by Tom Bassett.

 

 

Graham Bent - That’s the top of High street looking towards Apple Gate Street pulled down to make way for the Holiday Inn & St Nicolas circle

 

Bob Withers - Great Central Street somewhere on the right 

 

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Terry Russell  
Oozing character. Doesn't this look great?
This is the bottom end of St Nicholas St with the spire from the cathedral showing in the distance. 

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Terry Jones

Robert`s map of Leicester 1741....West Bridge bottom middle. Humberstone Gate top middle and the Assembly Rooms and Haymarket building that gave way to our Clock Tower...The twin towers on the left of our present High St that belonged to "Lords Place.. The conduit on Cheapside just below The Cornwall. The Gainsborough that was the pre cursor to our Corn Exchange and the East Gate is still in place..

 

Highcross St was the High St and High St. was the Swine or something Market.

 

 

 

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Graham Hulme  · 
Postcard of Market Street looking towards Hotel Street, c. 1950s.  The shop named Bennetts, which is seen on the extreme right, sold household goods and Bairds just next to it was a shoe shop.  Goodlys on the left side of the street sold house furnishings.  The shop named Roneo, to the left of Goodlys, was an office equipment supplier and left of that was Sketchley’s the cleaners.  In the distance, the building seen on the corner of Hotel Street and Millstone Lane, was originally Morgan Squire’s department store which became Rackhams in about 1971.  Morgan Squire had been situated on Hotel Street since Victorian times and the corner building was constructed as a new store for them in 1907, designed by the Leicester architects Everard & Pick (now Pick Everard) with striking Portland stone frontages and tall bay windows.  The new store opened in March 1908.  Just seen on the next corner, further along Hotel Street, is the curved frontage of the former Martins Bank, now The Friary pub.  The bank was constructed in 1935 and opened in September that year.  Martins Bank merged with Barclays Bank in December 1969 and the Hotel Street branch closed in November 1985.  The building opened as The Bank pub in 1988, later becoming The Goose on Hotel Street before re-opening as The Friary.

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1 hour ago, MrsJohnMurphy said:

So this started well but has turned into another thread knocking the city, we know it's not perfect but there's alot worse places, there are many great things about this city

Not sure It’s not the general theme?

 

Every city evolves…. If you pick up pictures of before and after from most cities it’d look different and buildings would be gone…

 

We’ve had some horrible town planning moments, but, of late,  we’ve really started to respect and preserve and even rediscover what we have in our town…

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11 hours ago, MrsJohnMurphy said:

So this started well but has turned into another thread knocking the city, we know it's not perfect but there's alot worse places, there are many great things about this city

The before and after pictures were requested by posters so they can see how much the City has changed as many weren't around for the 'before' pictures. It wasn't necessarily to 'knock' the city.

 

If we're showing historical stuff people like to see it in the context of how it is now if that shows a detrimental state, and it's subjective anyway then that is part of the historical changes.

 

There's no point in pretending it hasn't happened.

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Not Leicestershire but it might interest some

 

The recently discovered Roman villa and mosaic floor in Rutland features in tomorrow's "Digging for Britain" on BBC2. The dig was undertaken by the University of Leicester.  Details of the BBC programme here

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014hl0d?fbclid=IwAR0I-NgJwtyCJXmVnraPJ8gwbWvrOsX46DEmbKnmDIQABGMuVdTt6oklL_s

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@davieG.

 

Sometimes the hectic,the whining, fault finding,dredgery posts become the Norm and we all find ourselves becoming the mainstay of some cynical periods

of tedious monotony.

Then you come along ,with Sharing your pastime, of " our past time" 

A bit of Local History enlightment, Mixed with pleasant & curious memories...sort of reopens our lives & eyes to our own passing of time.

Gives me a snug, comfortable feeling Sharing our backgrounds, through your Researched photos...

Thanks..!

Keep it up DavieG.

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