City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

[davieG]

Trevor Godfree

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BATH ST .
BELGRAVE. LEICESTER.

[WarehamFox]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

A picture paints a thousand words

 

Terry Jones

That was The Rutland Coffee House...Opened in 1883 and demolished 1972...

Sorry,  I can’t place this picture, thought the building on the left was the tree cranes on Humberstone Gate but the modern picture shows a shop of some sort?

[davieG]

11 minutes ago, WarehamFox said:

Sorry,  I can’t place this picture, thought the building on the left was the tree cranes on Humberstone Gate but the modern picture shows a shop of some sort?

It is, looks like that on google maps so probably is a shop now.

[davieG]

Steve Anderson

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Shady Lane, Evington.

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3 hours ago, davieG said:

Steve Anderson

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Shady Lane, Evington.

At last! A bygone picture of Leicester that hasn't changed compared with today.

Sadly, there isn't many where changes aren't so markedly different and often for the worse.

 

[davieG]

[Parafox]

5 hours ago, davieG said:

Steve Anderson

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Shady Lane, Evington.

 

I had my first shag in a car down that lane.

 

The taxi driver wasn't very impressed 

[davieG]

I guess not so good for shoppers but fine if you need accommodation if that's what they build there..

 

Beaumont Leys Market set to close after 39 years
Leicester City Council is planning to sell the land

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/beaumont-leys-market-set-close-8632461

[davieG]

Story of Leicester

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Abbot Penny’s Wall was constructed in about 1500 along the north and west sides of Leicester Abbey’s grounds. It's named after Leicester man John Penny, who became Abbot of Leicester from 1496 until 1509. It now forms part of the boundary walls of Abbey Park.

It was built with red and blue brick and Charnwood granite. The section near St Margaret’s Way may be the earliest example of medieval brickwork and some of the most elaborate diaper-patterned brickwork to be found in Britain. The elaborate patterns of red and blue bricks along the wall include religious symbols such as crosses, a chalice, the initials IHC and MR for Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, and Abbot Penny’s own initials. The entire wall is a scheduled monument.

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Steve Anderson

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This is the Catherine Street Bridge. It was demolished in February 1973

[Parafox]

5 hours ago, davieG said:

Steve Anderson

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This is the Catherine Street Bridge. It was demolished in February 1973

 

As a child and young teen I used to go over this bridge on the bus into town. 

 

I still have the occasional dream where I am on the top deck, front seat, as the bus reaches the apex and then... nothing. 

 

For some reason going over the bridge was a bit exciting as a kid. I can't remember what the railway region was called but I remember it went via Peterborough to the east coast and Skegness.

Edited 28 July 2023 by Parafox

[Wymsey]

The new Leicester Train Station design idea looks quite impressive.

[Parafox]

Just now, Wymsey said:

The new Leicester Train Station design idea looks quite impressive.

 

It does.

 

Thankfully the frontage and the "in and out" friezes and arches are listed, so Soulsby and his cronies can't "modernise" them.

[davieG]

14 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

The new Leicester Train Station design idea looks quite impressive.

 

10 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

It does.

 

Thankfully the frontage and the "in and out" friezes and arches are listed, so Soulsby and his cronies can't "modernise" them.

The buildings attached to the left of the frontage are going though.

[davieG]

23 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

As a child and young teen I used to go over this bridge on the bus into town. 

 

I still have the occasional dream where I am on the top deck, front seat, as the bus reaches the apex and then... nothing. 

 

For some reason going over the bridge was a bit exciting as a kid. I can't remember what the railway region was called but I remember it went via Peterborough to the east coast and Skegness.

I believe it was the Great Northern Line

 

Belgrave Road

 

 

[davieG]

Jayne Wills

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Quorn & Woodhouse Station

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On this day in 1952, the 1st Bn Royal Leicestershire Regiment arrived at Quorn and Woodhouse station having travelled home from Korea. They docked at Southampton on the Empire Orwell and travelled to Leicester in a special train hauled by "The Leicestershire Regiment".

During a two-hour stay in Leicester they paraded through the city to march to the home crowds to the regimantal band and drums before re-boarding the train and for Quorn and Woodhouse station. They were bound for Camp Quorn for their six-week leave.

During their march from the station to Camp Quorn they were greeted by large crowds, and many of the houses on the route were decorated with flags. Local dignitaries greeted the men as they arrived on the station including veteran Joe "The Warrior" Burton who wore his medals from 1887-1889 Burma campaign.

The attached photograph has been recently discovered and depicts a military regiment in the yard sometime during the 1950s. The quality is poor but perhaps one of our followers could identify the regiment?

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Jane Castree

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Opening of Newarke Bridge, 24.10.1898 - This photograph is of my Great-Great Grandfather (Walter Ernest Warden) driving the horse and carriage on the visit by Queen Victoria. He had the contract to supply the carriage and paire when a Mayor of Leicester was fulfillling their civic engagements. He was based at Brooksby. He's the one in the front carriage on the left-hand side.

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Alan Roberts

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Found this picture in my mum's old photo albums. On the back of the photo it's got "M1 being built north of Shepshed/David". David was my late father. It's quite plausible as my dad was an electrical engineer and inventor/designer. We knew he was part of the team that did some the heavy electrics on the motorway. He may well of took this from a bridge looking at the height.
For those who lived in the area at the time, the M1 caused an uproar as it was supposed to have passed though Bradgate Park, a well know Leicester beauty spot and home to Lady Jane Gray for a while. If you look at a map of the area, you'll see the M1 does a curious curve around the park.
He went on to design those fog light warning lights for motorways (2 amber lights in a rectangular box enclosure). They were more advanced than they looked as they could detect fog. Now it's all computerised! 

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Transformation of Leicester Market given go-ahead - here are the details
Leicester City Council hopes the revamp will ensure the survival of Leicester Market long into the future

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/transformation-leicester-market-given-go-8650300

 

ByHannah RichardsonLocal Democracy Reporter
15:40, 3 AUG 2023

A planned transformation of Leicester’s historic market has been given the go-ahead. It comes after Leicester City Council announced in September last year its plan to make the 700-year-old market "fit for the 21st Century".

City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said he wanted to create a space that was suitable for modern trading and shopping styles, and which provided an up-to-date and inviting environment. Now, almost a year on, the £7.5 million scheme has been approved by the city’s planning department.

The new-look market will be split into three zones, documents show.

 

Zone A, on the side next to the old fish market, will host a new café, planting and public art, and will have space for temporary stalls for one-off events such as farmers markets and a Christmas market.

 

Zone B, at the heart of the space, will be the covered market. This will get a complete overhaul.

The team behind the project ruled the existing roof would require “substantial work” to make it “fit for purpose going forwards”, and that the full extent and cost of the project would only be revealed when that work started. Instead, it has been agreed that the current roof be demolished and a new one installed in its place.

This will have a number of benefits, planning documents state, including the opportunity to improve the layout of stalls and create more space by removing the columns. The new roof will be thinner, the documents added, creating a more open feel to the space by increasing its height. Galvanised steel in the structure will “allow it to have a long life and require less maintenance, upkeep, and repair works than the existing roof”.

Replacing the roof will allow for more stalls in the covered section of the market than originally planned when the existing wooden stalls are replace - 84, rather than the previously expected 70.

The area would also be fully secured at night by shutters. The team behind the project previously said this will help to reduce anti-social behaviour in the area.

“When the market isn’t operating, people go and gather under the roof,” Mike Dalzell, the director for tourism, culture and inward investment at Leicester City Council, said when the scheme was announced, adding that people went there to "gather and drink and do other stuff, and you’re not supervised and it feels out of the way". "The new designed is going to enable us to close the building when it’s not in use," he said.

 

Zone C, in front of the indoor market, will have 16 new “high quality and unique” lockable “pods” for traders, the plan shows. These are designed to “allow a range of different uses to come in and fit out the spaces flexibly to allow for a varied and interesting offer of traders” and can be “traded from internally or opened up to allow external trading as desired”. The whole market will be resurfaced, it adds, and the new layout allows for better views of the Corn Exchange.

 

Some concerns were raised by the city council’s Conservation Area Panel, with some members saying this would be a “once-in-a-generation intervention” and the authority was missing the “opportunity for greater benefits”. They said they felt the design of the new covered market was “generic and indistinctive” and “did not relate well to the surrounding built form architecturally or materially”.

They also said the plan was “overly rigid” and they wanted to see “something more dynamic”. Some members said that while the proposal “would be an improvement over the existing arrangement”, this was “marginal and did not provide for as significant an enhancement to the setting of the Corn Exchange as might be possible with an alternative approach”.

However, planning officers approved the plan, saying it was “well considered and would have a beneficial impact in terms of opening up more views across the Conservation Area to heritage assets, such as the Corn Exchange”. That the market would be more “broken up” and have a reduced visual impact were also seen as positives by officers.

The key aim of the project, planning documents state, is “to ensure the survival of the market so that it can continue and flourish in its historical setting”. Plans have previously been approved for a temporary market in Green Market Square while the work takes place.

The temporary relocation would allow the council to execute its plan to modernise the existing site while not interrupting trade for those who have businesses there. The move is expected to last for around a year.

 

[PAULCFC]

So Soulsby's in charge?What could go wrong And where is this Magic Money Tree that he seems to find when it suits him?I'm not saying that the Market doesn't need a revamp,but it's floging a dead horse.

Edited 3 August 2023 by PAULCFC

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, PAULCFC said:

So Soulsby's in charge?What could go wrong And where is this Magic Money Tree that he seems to find when it suits him?I'm not saying that the Market doesn't need a revamp,but it's floging a dead horse.

 

I disagree about flogging a dead horse.

 

I find Leicester market quite unique and an interesting place to visit. It always seems busy and is well served by all traders and is still quite traditional and popular because:

 

www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186334-d261300-r440661878-Leicester_City_Market-Leicester_Leicestershire_England.html

[PAULCFC]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

 

I disagree about flogging a dead horse.

 

I find Leicester market quite unique and an interesting place to visit. It always seems busy and is well served by all traders and is still quite traditional and popular because:

 

www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186334-d261300-r440661878-Leicester_City_Market-Leicester_Leicestershire_England.html

Agree with it being unique.....but it has died a death since the 80's...Maybe i'm looking on it with Rose Tinted Glases!

[davieG]

 

History of Leicestershire in Images

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A photo of Charles Street looking towards Northampton Square taken during WWII.

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Back in the mid 70's. My first residency as a budding DJ/entertainer.

 

From here to 

 

 

 

 

Clearly I failed, as my profile will attest to.

 

Being a career paramedic was ultimately the best outcome.