City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

[Wolfox]

3 hours ago, Bordersfox said:

My Grandad used to take me every time we went into town when I was a kid.  Without fail.

Leicester childhood mate!

[davieG]

 

 

Made In Leicester

Neil Bell  ·   · 

One of the first automated traffic signals in Leicester, located at the junction of Hinckley and Fosse Road (central), being demonstrated to Leics City Police Chief OJB Cole in May 1929.

And the spot today courtesy of Googlemaps.

[davieG]

History of Leicestershire in Images

Jan Smith  ·   · 

Barrow upon Soar. The Navigation Pub, known locally as The Navvy. It was built soon after 1794 when the canal was opened, to provide refreshments for the bargees & horses. This photo was taken in the very early 1900 s.

[davieG]

Leicester Past & Present ~ A walk down Memory Lane.

  · LEICESTER PAST: Clock Tower, late 1940's.

[Parafox]

10 hours ago, davieG said:

History of Leicestershire in Images

Jan Smith  ·   · 

Barrow upon Soar. The Navigation Pub, known locally as The Navvy. It was built soon after 1794 when the canal was opened, to provide refreshments for the bargees & horses. This photo was taken in the very early 1900 s.

 

Nice pub. Nice setting.

 

[davieG]

View of the engine shed and turn-table probably taken from Bird Tree Walk / Hutchinson Walk Walk off of Swain Street Bridge. The Shed's still there but the turn-table is long gone along with the steam engines.

 

Used to sneak down the slope and into the shed to 'Cab' all the engines in there as a pre-teen.

[davieG]

Eddie Burtson

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Another cracker Belgrave road station RCTS rail tour dated 18th May 1963 Engine number 45238 on the reverse of the photograph

[The Blur]

I have not lived in Leicester for years and years but I have a friend who want to meet up in South Leicestershire around Enderby.

 

Do anyone have any recommendations for nice walks or restaurants or cool landmarks in the surrounding areas?

[Otis]

1 hour ago, The Blur said:

I have not lived in Leicester for years and years but I have a friend who want to meet up in South Leicestershire around Enderby.

 

Do anyone have any recommendations for nice walks or restaurants or cool landmarks in the surrounding areas?

Everard meadows. 

[SpacedX]

1 hour ago, The Blur said:

I have not lived in Leicester for years and years but I have a friend who want to meet up in South Leicestershire around Enderby.

 

Do anyone have any recommendations for nice walks or restaurants or cool landmarks in the surrounding areas?

Have you thought of asking Sean?

[davieG]

 

Memories of Leicester

  · Boating at Abbey Park in July 1953.

[davieG]

Made In Leicester

Rob Hubble  ·   · 

The Stag and Pheasant Hotel demolished to make way for the Haymarket, early 60s. Humberstone Gate. - Colourised

[davieG]

Terry Jones

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And back to a time when Humberstone Gate resembled the wild west....

[davieG]

Story of Leicester

  · A bus station in the late 1970s, not far from Newarke Street and the old Phoenix Theatre. Known to some as the York Street Bus Station

[davieG]

Made In Leicester

Rob Hubble  ·   · 

Workers building the Great Central line 1890s - Colourised

[davieG]

History of Leicestershire in Images

Jayne Wills  ·   · 

Fosse Road Upperton Road

[davieG]

Made In Leicester

Stephen Butt  ·   · 

A very early image from a glass lantern slide of the junction of Belvoir Street and Bowling Green Street with the former Fenwicks store, then Joseph Johnson's. The date is around 1875-85. Where was the photographer positioned as the view seems to be from the former 'pork pie' chapel opposite? On the roof, perhap?

[davieG]

If you know Leicester, you'll know where this is!   A stunning photograph of Leicester people frozen in time.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

6 minutes ago, davieG said:

If you know Leicester, you'll know where this is!   A stunning photograph of Leicester people frozen in time.

Photo's taken on the Newarke Street side, not the now-pedestianised side, but it makes me think how much we've restored the Magazine area to its former glory after someone somewhere decided to plonk Vaughan Way down either side of it decades ago.

[davieG]

27 minutes ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

Photo's taken on the Newarke Street side, not the now-pedestianised side, but it makes me think how much we've restored the Magazine area to its former glory after someone somewhere decided to plonk Vaughan Way down either side of it decades ago.

The opposite view sort of.

 

 

Shame they demolished so much of it in the 60s

 

[WarehamFox]

17 hours ago, davieG said:

The opposite view sort of.

 

 

Shame they demolished so much of it in the 60s

 

Were the bits that they demolished to make way for the ring road as old as the surviving building?

[davieG]

6 minutes ago, WarehamFox said:

Were the bits that they demolished to make way for the ring road as old as the surviving building?

No it was the other side where the DeMontfort Uni is to young to remember the exact situation. There was a Bus Station there as well.

[davieG]

Terry Jones

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Market Place c1914...German citizens interned in the Corn Exchange...

[davieG]

Made In Leicester

Stephen Butt  ·   · 

Hidden Leicester. The Tycho Brahe mosaic.

[davieG]

Made In Leicester

Terry Jones  ·   · 

Market Place.Cheapside.Freeman Hardy Willis store c1910