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Memories of Leicester - London Road Old Wyvern Hotel 1951

I always wonder were why he didn’t go to LCFC games

It might be good to watch but it does nothing to improve going to the match for fans in general. It was this sort of shite and worse that led to all seater stadiums and over zealous policing and 40-50 years to get clubs, seemingly not LCFC and government to grant some form of standing. My kids lost so many opportunities to watch us play due to this sort of shite and I’m still angry about it to this day.

Southampton to draw with Watford would be good

Looks to be a bit tougher than the cup game.

Rusty sills patched up with newspaper and soon filler. My brother had an old banger and he had a piece of string through a in the dash connected to the accelrater lever which he used to pull to accelerate. There were some complete wrecks on the road back then.

On BBC IPlayer

LCFC Highlights https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/68013834

Don't know if posted but 3mins of highlights https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/68013834

Plenty of empty ST seats near me and there were a few newbies.

His shot stopping was good but his passing was shocking and put us under a lot of pressure. Choudhury looked like he has hangover Felt for Cover who did nothing wrong especially having to play alongside the inept Choudury and made the best pass of the 1st half. Ricardo was the game changer brought the best out of Albrighton and Praet

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Born and Raised in Leicester · Kirby Muxloe Castle,

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How a speech 140 years ago kickstarted Leicester's socialist movement 'Events on that night 140 years ago kickstarted a robust socialist movement in the city that still endures'. On 21 January 1884, the great Victorian polymath and social campaigner William Morris arrived at the Secular Hall in Leicester to deliver an important speech on 'Art and Socialism'. 140 years ago, his words that evening struck a chord with an appreciative local audience. Some of those present would be crucial in establishing Leicester's first socialist movement less than a year later. Continues here - https://www.greatcentralgazette.org/how-a-speech-140-years-ago-kickstarted-leicesters-socialist-movement/?fbclid=IwAR15vv7qwQP2qpvmutyOnhYzohylKEZcPd6oLNinOrHqnbDC6qUfZYPlfSI Extracts In his speech on art and socialism, Morris decried the excessive consumerism creeping into Victorian society. He urged wealthy middle-class people, like himself, to spurn the inferior quality goods often produced on factory production lines and rid themselves of unnecessary possessions in favour of "simple and decent lives". Only by doing that, Morris argued, would society be freed "from the slavery of capitalist commerce", allowing factory workers to be treated more humanely. Morris concluded with the following powerful mission statement regarding the objectives, as he saw it, of the emerging British socialist movement: "In a properly ordered state of Society every man willing to work should be ensured: First, Honourable and fitting work; Second, A healthy and beautiful house; Third, Full leisure for rest of mind and body".

Leicester Old and New · Join Rob Murray · · Tank visit 1918 Terry Jones Probably "Old Bill".... It was one of the Tanks which toured Britain raising money for the National War Bonds, and following ' Old Bill's ' visit, Leicester raised over 2 million quid for National War Bonds.

I believe the company is still around apparently on Oakland Road. It used to be on Queens Rd when I went to Avenue Road Junior School. There was a lad in my class who told me his Dad was the manager there, he took me there one lunchtime and we strolled in and went to this office where he sat in the office chair like he owned the place on the way out he said help yourself to a drink and he got a bottle opener out that he'd taken from the office, we sat outside on some crates and drank the pop. Later on in the year I found out he had made it all up and his Dad didn't even work there.

'I Grew Up There' - Liam Moore's Leicester Roots https://www.lcfc.com/news/3866601/i-grew-up-there--liam-moores-leicester-roots/featured?lang=en Debuting without his own boots, earning top-flight promotion with a champagne-filled party and watching Leicester City complete an unthinkable Premier League title triumph, it was some ride for Liam Moore at his hometown club. Taking a seat up in the corner of the West Stand at King Power Stadium, in the city he has called home for a large majority of his career, Moore reminisces on his first and only Leicester goal.

Born and Raised in Leicester · Prefab City The prefabs that stood in Hinckley Road opposite Hockley Farm Road, not far from the turn into Ratby Lane. The picture was taken in July 1970 at the corner of Selwyn Close and Bradnock Road to accompany a feature about the prefabs, which were under threat of demolition. At that time, the city's housing committee had asked the housing manager and the city architect to prepare a report about the future of the prefabs, otherwise known as the "little wooden huts". In the feature it states that "although the bungalows are not particularly attractive from the outside, if the report recommends that the demolition gangs should move in, it will probably unleash a storm of protest from the hundreds of couples who are delighted with their accommodation". The prefabs were built in 1946 to ease the post-war housing problem and were designed to last just 10 yearS. The three main areas where they were erected were Hinckley Road, off Aikman Avenue in New Parks, and Ambassador Road, in Rowlatt's Hill. There were a few more in Hughenden Drive in Eyres Monsell. The prefabs were factory made and had two bedrooms and a spacious sitting room, kitchen and bathroom. They also had good-sized gardens. According to the report, the rent in 1970 was just £2 a week. When asked, the occupants of the prefabs seemed delighted with them. One resident said, "I know a lot of people say they look like shacks, but if they saw inside, they would see how nice they are. I have no complaints. I am very happy here and I should hate to leave. Mine is a lovely little house – it has all the amenities you could want. Most people round here feel as I do about the prefabs and are happy with them." Another occupant, who had been in her prefab for just six months, said: "I think these places are ideal. They are like private bungalows, as they are not joined together and you can't annoy your neighbours with noise." The report concludes by saying that "Leicester Corporation admit that the prefabs are popular and whenever the homes become vacant people on the housing list seldom turn down the bungalows. The main problem with them, however, is that maintenance costs are continually rising." Sadly, for many of those who lived there, the prefabs were eventually demolished to make way for "better housing".

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