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City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

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Nice one @davieG @Free Falling Foxes

 

Lots of history around there - very close to the site of our old ground, before those terraced streets swept it away. Here's a before and after. The eastern end of Marjorie Street is circled in red:

 

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We played our first ever cup tie at that ground in October 1887, 4-2 v St. Saviour's in the Leicestershire Challenge Cup. The match was ordered to be replayed because of bad light. Didn't do St. Saviour's much good though - they lost the restaged game 5-0.

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Continuing the Belgrave Road theme, here you can see a great view of those terraced streets from 1939, with the River Soar running down the left hand side, Marjorie Street parallel to it at the bottom, and the site of our ground in 1887/88 marked.

 

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This is a colourised version of a screenshot taken from the YouTube video "Leicester How it used to be back in the day". I couldn't make out the adverts and signs out clearly, but the larger sign on the left, is of Stretton & Sons, Hosiery Manufacturers, who had the largest building in Southgate Street in the 1920s. From the cars, this photo would probably been from the early 1930s.
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On 17/11/2023 at 18:40, davieG said:

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This is a colourised version of a screenshot taken from the YouTube video "Leicester How it used to be back in the day". I couldn't make out the adverts and signs out clearly, but the larger sign on the left, is of Stretton & Sons, Hosiery Manufacturers, who had the largest building in Southgate Street in the 1920s. From the cars, this photo would probably been from the early 1930s.

Then and now....

 

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Crime-plagued Leicester underpasses to be transformed in £15 million project
Leicester City Council will put up £3 million of the cash on the busy city junction initiative


ByHannah RichardsonLocal Democracy Reporter
10:16, 21 NOV 2023UPDATED11:04, 21 NOV 2023

   


A project which will see a major city junction remodelled and its crime-plagued underpasses removed has been given Government backing. Leicester City Council has been awarded more than £12 million to transform the St Margaret’s junction, on the inner ring road, in the latest round of the Government’s levelling-up funding.

The underpasses on St Margaret’s Way were closed off earlier this year, with the council branding them a “magnet for crime and anti-social behaviour”. The closure was part of the council’s bid to create a more attractive walking and cycling route along the busy city centre road.

It is proposing to ultimately fill-in all three of the underpasses as part of a wider remodel of the junction which connects St Margaret’s Way, Burleys Way, Vaughan Way and Church Gate. New bus lanes will also be created on sections of St Margaret’s Way and Sanvey Gate, the authority added.

 

 

This will improve journey times and reliability by creating a direct link between St Margaret’s Bus Station and the A6, A50 and Anstey Lane bus corridors, Leicester City Council hopes. New cycle tracks are also planned for parts of St Margaret’s Way and Sanvey Gate to link to recently created and planned works expanding the citywide network of safer routes for cyclists.

Footpaths are set be widened and improved, the council added, with new parallel crossings for pedestrians and cyclists to be introduced across the busy junction. New landscaping in the area is also on the cards and Leicester City Council aims to create a stronger link between the city centre and the medieval St Margaret’s Church building.

 

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The proposed improvements are intended to encourage more walking and cycling, with transport surveys showing that currently just three per cent of people using the junction do so on foot or bike, the council said. The scheme will also help to promote new development and regeneration in the area, including providing the infrastructure needed to support investment in new city centre homes to help meet rising demand, it believes.

Leicester City Council will be putting up £3 million in addition to the £12,177,706 from the Levelling Up Fund. Work is expected to get underway in 2025.

Artist's impression of how the remodelled St Margaret’s junction - which connects St Margaret’s Way, Burleys Way, Vaughan Way and Church Gate - might look
Artist's impression of how the remodelled junction might look (Image: Leicester City Council)
Councillor Adam Clarke, deputy city mayor for climate, culture and economy, said: “This is great news for the city and a fantastic opportunity to build on the improvements we have already seen from the award-winning redevelopment of St Margaret’s bus station – the first operationally net zero bus station building in the UK.

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2 hours ago, davieG said:

 

 

Crime-plagued Leicester underpasses to be transformed in £15 million project
Leicester City Council will put up £3 million of the cash on the busy city junction initiative


ByHannah RichardsonLocal Democracy Reporter
10:16, 21 NOV 2023UPDATED11:04, 21 NOV 2023

   


A project which will see a major city junction remodelled and its crime-plagued underpasses removed has been given Government backing. Leicester City Council has been awarded more than £12 million to transform the St Margaret’s junction, on the inner ring road, in the latest round of the Government’s levelling-up funding.

The underpasses on St Margaret’s Way were closed off earlier this year, with the council branding them a “magnet for crime and anti-social behaviour”. The closure was part of the council’s bid to create a more attractive walking and cycling route along the busy city centre road.

It is proposing to ultimately fill-in all three of the underpasses as part of a wider remodel of the junction which connects St Margaret’s Way, Burleys Way, Vaughan Way and Church Gate. New bus lanes will also be created on sections of St Margaret’s Way and Sanvey Gate, the authority added.

 

 

This will improve journey times and reliability by creating a direct link between St Margaret’s Bus Station and the A6, A50 and Anstey Lane bus corridors, Leicester City Council hopes. New cycle tracks are also planned for parts of St Margaret’s Way and Sanvey Gate to link to recently created and planned works expanding the citywide network of safer routes for cyclists.

Footpaths are set be widened and improved, the council added, with new parallel crossings for pedestrians and cyclists to be introduced across the busy junction. New landscaping in the area is also on the cards and Leicester City Council aims to create a stronger link between the city centre and the medieval St Margaret’s Church building.

 

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The proposed improvements are intended to encourage more walking and cycling, with transport surveys showing that currently just three per cent of people using the junction do so on foot or bike, the council said. The scheme will also help to promote new development and regeneration in the area, including providing the infrastructure needed to support investment in new city centre homes to help meet rising demand, it believes.

Leicester City Council will be putting up £3 million in addition to the £12,177,706 from the Levelling Up Fund. Work is expected to get underway in 2025.

Artist's impression of how the remodelled St Margaret’s junction - which connects St Margaret’s Way, Burleys Way, Vaughan Way and Church Gate - might look
Artist's impression of how the remodelled junction might look (Image: Leicester City Council)
Councillor Adam Clarke, deputy city mayor for climate, culture and economy, said: “This is great news for the city and a fantastic opportunity to build on the improvements we have already seen from the award-winning redevelopment of St Margaret’s bus station – the first operationally net zero bus station building in the UK.

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What a waste of money. £12m on something that I don't think we need. Even at the busiest of times this junction isn't that bad, there's plenty more around the city that this could be spent on.

 

Agree with blocking up/filling in the underpasses though.

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34 minutes ago, lcfc278 said:

What a waste of money. £12m on something that I don't think we need. Even at the busiest of times this junction isn't that bad, there's plenty more around the city that this could be spent on.

 

Agree with blocking up/filling in the underpasses though.

I dunno. That area is grotesque..it needs a.spruce up and ideally and the city needs a much better,. freindlier link from st Margaret's (which is better connected to the city centre nowadays) to abbey park

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2 hours ago, lcfc278 said:

What a waste of money. £12m on something that I don't think we need. Even at the busiest of times this junction isn't that bad, there's plenty more around the city that this could be spent on.

 

Agree with blocking up/filling in the underpasses though.

All that effort to cater for the 3%. Imagine the real benefit if you were to help out the 97%.

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4 hours ago, davieG said:

latest round of the Government’s levelling-up funding.

https://the72.co.uk/2023/11/21/leicester-city-face-battle-in-chase-for-danish-star-mls-club-willing-to-pay-near-7m/

I know this will help with jobs but it's just a short term gain I'd have thought the levelling up most people need is in their daily living costs, health/dentists etc not filling in underpasses. The Council is on the brink of being unable to declare budget. 

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16 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

I dunno. That area is grotesque..it needs a.spruce up and ideally and the city needs a much better,. freindlier link from st Margaret's (which is better connected to the city centre nowadays) to abbey park

Underpass aside, it's really not compared to other areas. St. Margaret's has had how much spent on it, the area between the bus station and Belgrave Gate has been opened up and had loads spent on it, Creation has been knocked down and will have some brand new flats built there. I'd rather they took the £12m and sorted out the car park on Abbey Street or Lee Circle or one of the many other actual grotesque areas of the city.   

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