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City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

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53 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

@davieG - I don’t suppose you know where it is in Leicester Uni?

Found this on the Fieldworkers Website - https://leicsfieldworkers.org/2022/05/08/whats-on-in-2021/

 

  • June 16th: AGM followed by Michael Wood talking on Aethelflaed. Venue: Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester
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Vaughan College before demolishion for the Southgates Underpass 1963.

 

It's replacement

The Jewry Wall museum and Vaughan college with the remains of a Roman bathouse in Leicester, UK Stock Photo - Alamy

 

Now undergoing an upgrade/refurbishment to show off our roman remains/history

 

 

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31 minutes ago, davieG said:

 

 

The Jewry Wall museum and Vaughan college with the remains of a Roman bathouse in Leicester, UK Stock Photo - Alamy

 

Now undergoing an upgrade/refurbishment to show off our roman remains/history

 

 

A shame it won't include the stuff the developers were allowed to bury under the Holiday Inn when St Nick's Circle was constructed.

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12 minutes ago, Parafox said:

A shame it won't include the stuff the developers were allowed to bury under the Holiday Inn when St Nick's Circle was constructed.

...and the Shires/Highcross. There's stuff all over that area now covered up.

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St Dionysius, Market Harborough. The tallest building the town, St Dionysius is apparently affectionately known in the town as St Di's. One of twenty five grade 1 listed churches in Leicestershire, it is a glorious example of fourteenth century gothic, and is considerably older than the rather Tudor-looking half-timbered building to the left. It also has ten bells in the tower, the same as Notre Dame.
The half-timbered building is the old grammar school, erected in 1614. The open space below was built as stallholder space for market day.
This painting was a miserable failure first time round, as I tried to draw the church from the opposite side, including the grammar school with the Victorian-built Symington's corset factory behind. The street is not wide enough to get far enough back from the church to include all three buildings in reasonable proportion, and I spent a great deal of time both in trying to take a reasonably composed photograph and in making some sense of the results.

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HUMBERSTONE GARDEN SUBURB
The development of Humberstone Garden Suburb was built based on the principles of the garden city movement. Garden suburbs modified the principles of garden cities to allow for residential "garden suburbs" without the commercial and industrial components of the garden city. They were built on the outskirts of cities, in rural settings such as Humberstone. The Humberstone Garden Suburb is notable because it is the only example in which a UK workers’ cooperative has created a housing cooperative and built a housing estate for its members.
The Anchor Tenants Housing Association was formed in 1887 by the workers’ cooperative of the Anchor Boot and Shoe Co-operative Society which was a cooperatively run boot and shoe works in Asfordby Street, Leicester. The members of the cooperative contributed a percentage of their wages and bought a plot of land just outside Leicester by the village of Humberstone and built 97 houses. The first houses were in use by 1908, and the Anchor employees were let houses by the association at a rent that was collected to cover the upkeep of the properties. The original houses were designed by George Hern in a roughcast cottage style at a density of 7 to 8 houses an acre. The suburb consists of houses in Lilac Avenue, Laburnum Road, Fern Rise, Chestnut Avenue and a part of Keyham Lane. The names of the new streets were chosen to emphasise the garden nature of the scheme.
The motto of the Association was “Not Greater Wealth, But Simpler Pleasures.”
(The photograph is of The Anchor Tenants’ Building Department 1909, from Utopia Britannica – British Utopian Experiments 1325 – 1945)
Information credit and more reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberstone_%26_Hamilton

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