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Sky Sports with Barclays Football. · WHAT A VOLLEY! A special strike from Leicester City's Janice Cayman wins the Barclays Goal of the Month for February https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved&v=513905701383507

Leicester Memories Peter Taylor The Magazine Hotel Newarke Street Leicester ( Cracking pub ) Demolished 1999 .

Made In Leicester Rob Hubble Co Op Biddulph Street / Chandros Street 1958.

Been posted before but shear vandalism that it was allowed to be demolished. Story of Leicester Kirby & West Dairy, seen here on Western Boulevard in 1994. Open in 1934, this lost building had an wonderful Art Deco tiled frontage.

He's just another deckchair move as the SS KPFC sinks. It wont change anything our downward trajectory and defeatist attitude is too embedded to make any difference.

Bobby De Cordova-Reid stats vs West Ham 61 minutes played 21 touches 0 accurate crosses 0 shots 2/5 ground duels won 8 times possession lost

Well Bilal passed the ball to him 3 times and ran on into space to receive the return where he could have got in a cross or only had 1 player to beat to get in the box. Mav completely ignored him tried to beat 3 players and lost the ball each time. I've no problem with him taking a player on but he rarely if ever plays to the team. Continually trying to beat 3 players is not playing well it's madness.

Rob Hubble · Glenhills Boulevard 1959.

Mav as usual this season was terrible the number of times he received the ball and just pointlessly tried to beat 3/4 players totally ignoring the runner, usually Bilal moving into space to a position where they could at least have tried to get a cross in. He wasn't the worse but the best nah! It's no wonder Bilal has faded he must ask himself why he's bothering with such useless team mates.

He’s been awful except 3/4 games he’s just taking up space in the middle as the game passes him by. It’s like he at a bus stop but doesn’t know which one he’s supposed to catch so stands and watches them all come and go. Reminds me of a poor man’s Gareth Williams that Pearson got rid of. He wouldn’t last 10 seconds in Pearson team.

Mavididi never sees the runner

Take Soumare off Buonanotte in the middle and bring Mavididi on FFS go for it.

I see they’ve got a 19 year old playing FB as he did against Arsenal

Illusions · Join Jennifer Zuri This 3D crosswalk in Iceland slows down traffic with a stunning optical illusion.

Made In Leicester Rob Hubble · Belgrave Road 1973.

No but I don't think of celebrities as national treasures. So I guess a more accurate answer would be no one.

Made In Leicester Rob Hubble · 13h · King Richards Road December 1960.

Leicester Memories Jayne Wills The Leyland Society Leicester City Tramways tower wagon No 3, dating from 1924 it was a Leyland C Type. A similar vehicle (No 1) was preserved and is part of Leicester’s Abbey Pumping Station, Museum of Technology. Photo credit: Mike Sutcliffe collection.

None of the above I like most of them but they are nowhere near on my list. Nurses, Doctors, Recycle Bin Collectors, Post deliverers. Bog cleaners, litter pickers.

They’ll probably be able to empty the east stand of fans.

Fired matchsticks

History of Leicestershire in Images Charlotte Victoria Hubbard · Found this fantastic photo of the Tram lines being laid on Granby Street outside the Barley Mow pub.

Fallen Foxes seems more appropriate.

History of Leicestershire in Images Graham Hulme An old postcard view of Belgrave Gate, looking towards Haymarket, with the old Palace Theatre towards the right of the picture. The card was posted to Derbyshire in March 1930. The Palace Theatre of Varieties, as it was originally called, was built on part of the site of the old Floral Hall and opened on Monday 17th June 1901. (The original Floral Hall was built in 1876 as a skating rink, but was subsequently used for many purposes, including indoor markets and circuses. Much of it was demolished for the new Palace Theatre, but a new Floral Hall Picture Theatre was built in 1910, behind the Palace, with a narrow entrance to it from Belgrave Gate.) The Palace Theatre was built for Oswald Stoll (1866-1942) the theatre manager and impresario who established a national chain of variety theatres in London and the provinces. Together with his business partner Edward Moss he also presented the first Royal Variety Performance (originally called the Royal Command Performance) in 1912. Stoll used one of the most renowned of British theatre architects, Frank Matcham (1854-1920) to design the Palace Theatre, and used him for several other theatres. Matcham's most famous theatres include the London Coliseum (1904), the London Palladium (1910), the Victoria Palace London (1911), the Buxton Opera House (1903) and the Blackpool Grand (1894) as well as the Blackpool Tower Ballroom (1897-98). The architect designed his Leicester theatre in an elaborate Moorish style and gave it a very large stage. The original seating capacity was 3,500 and at the time of its opening it was the largest theatre outside London, having a splendid auditorium with three tiers above the stalls on the ground floor. These were the Grand Circle, Upper Circle and Gallery, plus three stage boxes either side of the proscenium arch. Inside the building there was also a Winter Garden, with rockeries, fountains and wells, intended to represent scenery of the Peak District. This was known as the Crush Room and had a glass and iron domed roof. The vestibule had an ornate Moresque dome. The auditorium had a sliding roof for ventilation. Among the performers in the first week of the Palace's opening was the famous music hall singer Charles Coburn, known especially for his song 'The Man Who Broke the Bank at Montecarlo'. In its great early years many of the top stars of the day performed there, including Marie Lloyd, W. C. Fields, Dan Leno, Sir Harry Lauder, Florrie Forde and Vesta Tilley. Charlie Chaplin also appeared here in his early days, with the Fred Karno Company. Following World War One revues began to be presented at the theatre and by 1929 Movietone News was being screened. The Palace went over to showing films in the early 1930s but returned to variety shows after the Second World War. These attracted such stars as Max Miller, Ted Ray, Robb Wilton, John Hanson, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Wariss, Frank Randle, Shirley Bassey, Frankie Vaughan, Terry-Thomas, Harry Worth, Peter Sellers, Roy Castle, Old Mother Riley (Arthur Lucan) and her daughter Kitty, the Billy Cotton Band Show, Geraldo, Benny Hill and the great silent movie star Buster Keaton (who appeared there in June 1951 for the theatre’s 50th anniversary). Even Bela Lugosi appeared there to play his famous Dracula in August 1951. After Oswald Stoll's death in 1942 his company was taken over by the impresario Prince Littler, but during the later 1950s, with the rise of television, the theatre's popularity began to decline dramatically. The Palace Theatre closed on 21st February 1959 after the Leicester Operatic Ensemble's production of 'The King and I' had played to a packed house of 3,000. Having been sold to Sketchleys Ltd. and the contents of the building auctioned off, the theatre was demolished shortly after its closure - a great shame for Leicester. The Floral Hall cinema also closed but for a time remained in use as a warehouse for Stead & Simpson. It was itself demolished about 1970. A very drab parade of shops was subsequently built on the site of the Palace Theatre. This information is mostly drawn from the article written by David Garratt, which features on the Arthur Lloyd website. http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/.../PalaceTheatreLeicester.htm