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He was very prominent always in the news because of his progressive ideas. My sister was a traffic warden in Wigston in the the 60s but was asked to resign because she didn’t book enough people. She used to patrol the main road through South Wigston but instead of booking them used to search the shops for the drivers to tell them to move rather than booking them.😀

Oops wasn't meant like that but you never know

I have a downstairs WC that needs complete refurbishment, I've tried locally to me in Hinckley but they all seem to be fully booked so I'm looking for someone to do this work for me. If you're interested and free please PM me Thanks in anticipation

Rogers - Good Coach My Arse! This sounds like a story we've heard a lot.

that's when Leicester were still considered a place to start new things rather than Nottingham, I believe we had the 1st Traffic Wardens outside of London for example.

4 on 4 At Middlesbrough, City will have four players walking a suspension tightrope. Harry Winks and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall have been on four yellow cards for some time but have so far avoided a fifth caution that will see them pick up a one-game ban. Ricardo Pereira and Abdul Fatawu both received yellows at QPR and so they are now one booking away from a suspension too.

History of Leicestershire in Images Mervin Wallace · rpSnoodets3h3hc918m8ih781m3338i97l2414001fa0u92i1f1l80u4lhi2 · ON THE 8th NOVEMBER 1967 BBC Radio Leicester, which was the first of the new BBC Local Radio stations, began broadcasting at 12.45 p.m. from Epic House in Charles street using a transmitter located on Gorse Hill.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/enzo-maresca-explains-leicester-city-8889172 Enzo Maresca explains Leicester City selection policy with Jamie Vardy and Kelechi Iheanacho Leicester City's two leading strikers have shared the minutes this season, with Maresca tending to swap them over every Championship game, and rarely playing them together Bookmark Comments SPORT ByJordan Blackwell 11:40, 7 NOV 2023 Combine the qualities of Jamie Vardy and Kelechi Iheanacho and Leicester City have a complete player, manager Enzo Maresca has said as he continues to share the minutes between the strike duo. While City’s strongest 11 is becoming clearer by the week, there is a debate over who is the more effective player to lead the line, with Maresca regularly rotating. Vardy has started eight of the 15 Championship fixtures so far, with Iheanacho in the line-up for the other seven. In recent weeks, Maresca has tended to swap them over each match, but against Leeds, he started Vardy for the second straight game. It wasn’t the number nine’s best outing, and he could not find the space to make himself a threat, unable to register a shot and touching the ball just twice in the box. It is those qualities inside the penalty area that Maresca picks Vardy for, with Iheanacho the better option when he needs a striker to link play more. However, explaining his selection policy, the manager says that more often than not he just swaps them over no matter how his team intend to play. “Inside the box, Jamie is the best one and we cannot teach him anything,” Maresca said. “Probably we can improve him outside of the box, how to link. “Kele, he has to go on the other side. He is very good at linking, probably he needs to improve inside the box. They complete each other. “The reason why one is going to play and the other is not going to play is most of the time we use one and the next time we use the other one. Also it depends if they defend with a line of five, if we need to link a little bit more. It depends.” Although they do “complete” each other, they have not started together this season, with Maresca preferring to play just one striker at a time. For a few minutes late in the win over QPR, they were on the field together as City chased a winner, which came through Harry Winks. That’s not something Maresca is likely to do often. He says it upsets the balance of his team. “We used them together (against QPR) because the idea was to attack with six players against the line of five,” Maresca said. “It’s a matter of balance. When we use both of them, we need two holding midfielders. One of them is Harry, and the other one is Cesare (Casadei) or Kiernan (Dewsbury-Hall), or Wilf (Ndidi) or Kiernan. “Sometimes we take the decision to balance the situation. If we use Kele and Jamie together, probably we struggle to use Kiernan in the same game, because then we have just Harry as a holding midfielder. At the end it’s a matter of balance. But we try and consider to use Kele and Jamie together, no doubt.”

Born and Raised in Leicester· Abbey Park. Leicester. Abbey Park is a public park in Leicester, England, through which the River Soar flows. It opened in 1882 on the flood plain of the River Soar, and expanded in 1932 to include the area west of the river that had formerly been the medieval St Mary's Abbey, still bounded by large medieval walls. The park includes the archaeological sites of the Abbey and the ruins of Cavendish House, along with a wide range of decorative and recreational parkland features. History In 1876 Leicester town council bought 57 acres (23 ha) of marshy ground between the river and canal from the Earl of Dysart in order to develop flood prevention plans. Planning for this first incarnation of the park was underway by 1879, as part of designs by the borough surveyors for the relief of flooding in the area. However the design for the park itself was opened up to a competition. The winning design, with its bandstand, rustic bridges and planted gardens, was the work of William Barron, a celebrated landscape designer. It was Leicester's first public park of significant size, and was opened on 29 May 1882 by the Prince and Princess of Wales, an event commemorated by an ornate plaque at the Abbey Park Road entrance. The park was created in an area that had previously been described as "marshy ground in a poor district" at a cost of over The works included the widening and deepening of the river over a length of around a mile, with the excavated earth used to create mounds within the park, as well as the construction of stone weirs and locks. Three new bridges were constructed crossing the river. An artificial lake was created and over 33,000 trees planted. Excavations as part of the work discovered remains of animals including elephants and rhinoceros. The resulting park occupied 57 acres of land between the River Soar and the Grand Union Canal. Two lodges designed by architect Mr. J. Tait were built at the Abbey Road entrance to the park. Although the new park was called Abbey Park, the site of the abbey itself, bounded by substantial medieval masonry and brick walls, was not within the park, but was in agricultural land on the other side of the River Soar. The exact location of the Abbey was unknown, with no standing remains other than the boundary walls and the ruins of the sixteenth century Cavendish House. Archaeological investigations of a limited nature began in the 1920s, and popular enthusiasm was fueled by the 1922 discoveries in Egypt of Tutankhamun's tomb, and a hope that Cardinal Wolsey's tomb might be similarly discovered. After assorted modest excavations, the 32 acre Abbey Grounds site was donated to the city by the Earl of Dysart at the end of 1925. Several years of preliminary works, and sporadic attempts to pin down the site of the Abbey buildings, were followed by more thorough work undertaken in 1929-30. With the rise in unemployment culminating in the Great Depression the city council attempted to alleviate local poverty by employing a team of workmen to clear pernicious weeds from the overgrown site, and the architect W K Bedingfield was able to utilise this process to also search for, and then uncover the buried foundations of the Abbey buildings. A variety of graves were found, but no magnificent tomb of the sort popularly hoped for. Having exposed and mapped the extent of the Abbey Church and a variety of monastic buildings, the workforce built low walls to mark out the foundations and pier bases. They also carried out extensive repairs to the stonework and brickwork of the medieval boundary walls particularly along the north and western sides of the site, traditionally ascribed to Abbot Penny and Abbot Cloune. Paths were laid out across the grounds, tennis courts were built, a large oval was levelled for use as a cricket pitch, and a new stone bridge in a classical style, was built across the River Soar to link the two parts of the park. Despite the absence of a tomb, the abbey ruins received a memorial slab to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. He died while en route from York to London on 29 November 1530. A statue of him also stands next to the Park's cafe. Alongside the site of the 12th century Leicester Abbey, which was marked out with low stone walls, are the substantial ruins of Cavendish House (built in the 17th century by William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire incorporating the Abbey Gatehouse, and by tradition built using stone from the abbey). The house was used by Charles I after the siege of Leicester during the English civil war in 1645; after he left, his soldiers set fire to it leaving the house gutted. The charred stone window frame is still visible today.

It's somewhat harder to sing about VAR being bad and besides they're miles away and wouldn't hear it and you get as many moans about VAR before the game, especially against the biased 6/7. How about taking some of the responsibilities off the ref like timekeeping, subs, injured players serving their 1 minute and use the Asst Refs more to make decisions and just let them concentrate solely on the game running the game.

Born and Raised in Leicester · Humberstone Gate 1969

Born and Raised in Leicester · Grannys nightclub in London Road, Leicester, back in March 1977. Sent in by Keith

History of Leicestershire in Images Charlotte Victoria Hubbard · · Top photo is Sanvey Gate Highcross Street corner in 1948. The other is Uppingham Road near Humberstone station 1950s?

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Born and Raised in Leicester · A summers day at Abbey park in the 60s

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https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/persistent-leicester-city-problem-exposed-8884256 Persistent Leicester City problem exposed by Leeds United as alternative Enzo Maresca plan emerges Analysis from Leicester City's 1-0 defeat to Leeds, looking at what went wrong, the start to the second half, Cesare Casadei's performance, the lack of subs, and more ByJordan Blackwell 07:00, 5 NOV 2023UPDATED07:50, 5 NOV 2023 Just as he did for the only other Championship game Leicester City have lost this season, Enzo Maresca emerged for his post-match press conference with a smile on his face. He was satisfied with his side’s performance against Leeds, so there was little need for him to be angry or upset that the club’s record winning streak had come to an end. The result “is just small details”, he said. So what were those small details that stopped City from making it 10 in a row? On the face of it, there was the width of a crossbar, a superb last-minute save, and some static set-piece defending. But there’s more to it than that. Maresca argued that City deserved something from the game. A draw, maybe. But if either side merited victory, it was the visitors. Leeds executed their gameplan more effectively, and more consistently, than City did. Their swift counter-attacks caused more danger than City’s more methodical approach. They were good. It’s not that City were bad, but neither were they anywhere near the heights they have reached at points this season. They started both halves slowly, particularly the first period, where they played as if they had not anticipated Leeds being so aggressive nor pumped up for a top-of-the-table clash. They didn’t make the most of their attacks when they did find gaps through the middle. They were hard to come by with Ethan Ampadu and Glen Kamara both performing well in front of Leeds’ back-line, but there were a few times where passes were slipped between them, particularly in the final 25 minutes of the first half, and City did not make enough of those openings. Their best route to goal was down the flanks, where Stephy Mavididi and Abdul Fatawu were having plenty of joy up against their full-backs, both players recording season bests for their number of successful take-ons. But their crosses didn’t cause as much trouble as they should have. This was not because they were poor balls into the box – albeit Fatawu did overhit a few to the far post – but rather because it felt like Jamie Vardy, Cesare Casadei, and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, as the striker and two number eights, weren’t sharp enough in the danger zone, or simply weren’t there at all. A devilish Mavididi ball across the six-yard box was begging for a Vardy finish, but he was stationary around the penalty spot. Another clipped cross looked like landing at Casadei’s feet, but he didn’t react quickly enough. When the second half came, Fatawu and Mavididi’s influence had waned a little, so the extra bodies in the box didn’t get the service. Still, City’s best two late chances, a blocked Kelechi Iheanacho shot and Dewsbury-Hall’s last-gasp header, both came from Fatawu’s crosses. It was the route to go but City didn’t make best use of it. Defensively, they actually marshalled Leeds’ counters pretty well, although they did need some excellent last-ditch defending from Ricardo Pereira in the first half. The set-up for the decisive corner and the reaction to the rebound were poor though. So there was nothing drastically wrong with City’s performance. As Maresca said, it comes down to the “small details”. But if there are enough small details that aren’t quite right, City will lose matches, especially against the Championship’s better teams. Leeds take advantage during City's problem period While the start to the first half was worse for City in how slow their players were to react, in how dominant Leeds were, and in how often the visitors moved the ball into promising positions, it was the start to the second half that was more concerning. There have not been too many issues that have followed City through the first few months of the season, but their slow starts to the second period are one. While City have a superb record in the final half-hour of matches, they always need time to warm up. Leeds were not the first team to catch them cold shortly after the interval. Split matches into six 15-minute segments and the period between the 46th and 60th minutes is the only one where City have a negative record, scoring only one goal, and conceding three. No team has scored fewer in the 15 minutes after half-time than City, and even the one goal they did score – by Dewsbury-Hall against Preston – came about 30 seconds before the hour mark. While their three goals conceded is not a lot, it is the most they’ve let in during any 15-minute period. On Friday, six of Leeds’ 11 shots came during that period, including Georginio Rutter’s goal. At the other end, City mustered nothing. Maresca was at a loss to explain: “First half and second half, they started better than us. The reason why, I don’t know, because we usually start in the right way. It can happen. But I think afterwards the reaction was very good.” Perhaps City are too relaxed because they are fully aware of how good they are late in games. Their record after the hour mark reads 16 goals scored, none conceded. They can get away without being electric as soon as they re-emerge because they so often wear teams down and triumph late on. But good teams like Leeds will be able to withstand 30 minutes of pressure without giving much away. It’s nitpicking of course, but it’s best to nip bad habits in the bud. If City get promoted, they can ill afford to be so slow out of the blocks in the second half in the Premier League. icardo change hints at possible alternative plan This was City’s biggest game of the season, and it looked too big an occasion for Cesare Casadei. It probably wasn’t the actual biggest game of his career so far – he captained his country in the Under-20 World Cup final a few months ago – but it felt like a game he wasn’t ready for. Against Sunderland a week ago, he grew into the game and gave one of his best performances. Against Leeds, he was largely bypassed, struggling to get into the match. It may just have been inconsistency that comes with being a young player. When City are attacking, his job as a number eight is to find space to receive the ball in the final third, connecting play and making himself a threat. In the attacking third, he had eight touches on Friday, two fewer than James Justin did, and he's a defender. Had players been fit, Casadei probably wouldn’t have started all of the past three matches. In fact, he may not have started any of them if Maresca had Wilfred Ndidi, Dennis Praet, and Yunus Akgun to call on. Although none of those players may be back next week, when City travel to Middlesbrough, an alternative has emerged. For the final 20 minutes, Maresca played Hamza Choudhury in the dual right-back-central-midfield position, and pushed Ricardo further forward into the number eight role. It helped. Ricardo is one of City’s best technical operators, the Portuguese excellent in tight areas, and he has an attacking instinct too. Maybe he should stay in that role against Boro. What City would miss is that his quick interchanges with Harry Winks deeper in midfield are both good at baiting the opposition’s press and good at getting them out of sticky situations and into attacking areas. Choudhury isn’t quite on the same level in that regard. But without Ndidi available until after the international break, it may be a better option. It’s certainly something for Maresca to consider. Maresca turns down fresh legs If those players mentioned were fit, perhaps Maresca would have made more than two substitutions. Iheanacho came on as soon as the goal went in, and Choudhury replaced Casadei in the 67th minute, but no further changes were made in the final 20 minutes as City pushed for an equaliser. Maresca didn’t feel it was necessary. He thought his team and the individuals were doing well enough that any substitution would be a change for change’s sake. Fair enough. There would have been an argument for bringing on Kasey McAteer with Fatawu’s influence appearing to die down, but the Ghanaian did then set up the Dewsbury-Hall chance at the death. But it’s known that fresh legs do help. Giving tiring defenders a new player to think about, and an energetic one, can cause problems. So it feels like Maresca should want to make more changes. If he feels like the drop-off in quality is too big between his starters and his subs that he doesn’t even get halfway to using his quota in a game where City are trailing, is that a concern? It suggests the squad is not quite where he wants it to be yet. Transfers next summer are inevitable, especially if City go up. But maybe there'll be a couple in January too. Result was more important for Leeds Even after nine wins in a row, a defeat still rankles. That feeling never goes away. Perhaps it feels worse because it’s come against Leeds, and there is a definite rivalry brewing between the clubs, even with a healthy gap between them in the division still. That’s where the solace lies for City, in their 11-point cushion. This game was definitely more important for Leeds, and perhaps their performance showed that. The gap extending to 17 points would have been a bigger psychological blow for Leeds than it is for City seeing it come down to 11. At their current rate, they will still finish with 119 points. So, more than ever, this loss is not a cause for concern. But it shows, if it wasn’t already known, that they’re not the complete package yet and that there are challengers who can hunt them down if they take their eye off the ball.

Born and Raised in Leicester · Fosse Road North in the early 1900's

Better than demolishing and rebuilding.

Aye and Farke has got two teams promoted.