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Samely Mabel · Follow When the cameras show Mark Selby lifting trophies, few remember the boy behind the champion. At just 8 years old, his mother walked out of his life. At 16, cancer took his father too. He was left alone in Leicester with nothing but a cue and a promise — a promise to his dad that he would make something of himself. Snooker became his escape. Frame after frame, late into the night, he poured every ounce of pain, every memory, into the game. He wasn’t chasing fame. He was chasing a way out of loneliness. Years later, when he held the World Championship trophy aloft, it wasn’t just a victory. It was an answer to the boy who had lost everything. It was a whisper to his father: “I kept my promise.” And yet, Mark never shows arrogance. He plays with humility, fights with quiet grit, and carries his scars with dignity. What do you think? Does true greatness come from talent — or from surviving heartbreak?

Roger RichardsMade In Leicester I lived in Leicester from 1939-1970 went to Medway St. then Moat Rd. Schools .I had 7 brothers and 1 sister and lived in Eggington St. ,Earl Howe St.then Sparkenhoe St. before marriage to Suzanne Cann in1958 . I was a photographer at Leicester University and have many photos to share ,mainly my own but some old ones found stored in a box at the Uni.Many had the name Warden Harvey on the old glass negs. My early memories are of the war time raids,gas masks,sheltering in basement of Medway St. school.Waking up one morning to find Earl Howe St. filled with sleeping soldiers from Dunkirk and talking to them. Later we used to walk to the pow camp on Shady Lane, Evington and talk to the prisoners through the wire fence . I remember going scrumping up London Rd. near Oadby with two brothers,crawling through a hedge to find an American soldier sitting on the lawn ,smoking but with a machine gun on a small tripod! We quickly backed out and ran .If this is of interest to you please let me know.After our marriage Sue and I lived in Cranbrook Rd. Thurnby and later in Copse Close ,Oadby. We now live on a 30 acre property with a lot of fruit trees in Montacute,just out of Adelaide. If the photos are of interest let me know. Humberstone Rd. in mid 1960’s Leicester Base Hospital in Fielding Johnson Building ( now Leicester University) in WW1, Photo Warden Harvey Scraptoft Village in mid 1960’s The Magazine,date unknown, Made In Leicester Roger Richards I’m not into the Facebook thing but I was amazed at the responses to my recent post about early Leicester! There were so many questions and all I can do is continue my memories in some kind of order. When we moved to Leicester we rented a flat above a painter and decorator business run by a Mr. Pole. There was a bakery on the corner and across the road was a sweet shop called by us as the halfpenny sweet shop as for a halfpenny they gave a small paper bag with a few sweets in. Dad found a larger place for us after two months and we moved late at night in the dark to 47 Earl Howe St. There was an outside loo but no bathroom so a tin bath in front of the fire was used. It had several rooms in the cellar but no lights . I remember mum was washing one of my brothers in the tin bath when she asked my older brother Peter to bring some more coal for the fire. Peter came back after a few minutes and threw a shovel of coal onto the fire. A few minutes later there was a loud bang and something shot out of the fire narrowly missing mum and the baby. It was a bullet but we never knew how it got into the coal! Dad was born Alec Rimes just before the end of the 19th.century in Farcet near Peterborough and at 14 was working at a local brickworks. The brick making machine he was using collapsed and chopped his arm off at the elbow.There were no ambulances and nobody had a car so his boss took him to the hospital in Peterborough in his horse and buggy, hard to imagine the dreadful situation and pain . He recovered well and he tried to enlist in the army when the war began just like his brothers. He was rejected obviously but kept trying. Eventually a friend told him to try changing his name so he knew an old family member had the name Richards so in 1917 they were so short of men that he was taken in. An early job was on guard at a downed airship but later he was sent over to France until the end of the war. An uncle later told me that he was promoted to Captain for bravery after saving wounded soldiers by using his good arm and his teeth to drag them back to safety . I haven’t been able to verify this and he never spoke about the war. He had difficulty finding any work but did fire watching at Taylor Hobsons in Stoughton St. He liked a drink at night and came home one night with a large fruit cake that I think he paid 7/6d for from a man at the pub. Later two plainclothe policemen knocked on the door and walked dad to Charles St. He was jailed for 3 months for receiving stolen goods! One of the policemen was Jock Joiner or Joyner and I think he was a survivor of a bombing in Saxby St. when several policemen were killed. The only friend that I remember from the street was a boy from the Irish family that moved into no. 49. I know he became a policeman and I saw him being interviewed on tv here in Australia about a murder case in England. He was a chief of police in the West Midlands area . Our family continued to grow and mum had boy number eight Stephen Charles in the back bedroom. We all crowded around to see him and nobody noticed that Robert the two year old had managed to open a door that led to the outside wooden staircase to the ground . He fell onto the brick surface and suffered head injuries. He was taken to the Infirmary but suffered brain damage and didn’t talk for another two years. He attended Medway school but ended up going to a Special School,can’t remember the name but think it was towards Glenfield . He did recover and visited us here in Australia several times, he loved travel by plane. I think it was November 18 when mum said that Coventry was being bombed and we could hear the noise in Leicester. The next day ,19 th was mum’s birthday and that was Leicester’s turn. We used our heavy kitchen table as a shelter but from the front bedroom window we could see the glow of many fires in the city. Mum was standing on a chair at the side of our bed and started to jump up and down when seeing a plane on fire,thinking it was the enemy. The base of the chair broke and she fell through it to the floor. After seeing all the damage the next day particularly around Sparkenhoe St. we decided to use the basement shelter of Medway St. school along with many of the neighbours. We picked up several incendiary bombshells the next day that were used just to set fire to homes. I’ll do more memories later, Roger Vaughn Way Prison & Royal Infirmary Oadby Blackbird Road Underpass

John Ghent Leicester Estate Agent Who remembers this view? Look at the sheer scale of Leicester’s Aylestone Road Gas Works in this incredible aerial shot from around 1931. Imagine the noise, the smoke, and the smell when those giant gas holders were at full capacity. Did you or someone in your family work here? Do you remember seeing the gas holders dominating the skyline? Any stories about life in the streets around the works? Tag a parent, grandparent, or neighbour who might have memories of this place—let’s see how many first-hand tales we can collect! John Ghent Leicester Estate Agent · Follow Leicester Gas Works History Check out this incredible old site map of the Leicester Gas Works around Aylestone Road, dating back to the 1950s. You can see everything—from the retort houses and chemical works to the Grand Union Canal and the railway line that once served the site. This map shows a slice of industrial Leicester that’s mostly disappeared today. Would you like to see a full video exploring the history of the gas works, the railway line that connected it to the Burton branch, and what’s there now? Drop a comment if you’re up for a deep dive into this hidden chapter of Leicester’s past! Location: Aylestone Road, Leicester Era: c.1954

History of Leicestershire in Images Stuart Marbrook I was going to ask where this was, i reckon we may be here for a little while! I don't think the children playing in the picture would last too long on the road these days. Knighton Road (looking North). The Craddock Arms is immediately on the left of the photographer. Picture is likely pre WW1. Taken relating to the GPO installing their network of telegraph poles(posts?) at the time. An early form of surveying/planning I am assuming. The photo's relate to poles/numbers being marked on them. Its likely these planned telegraph poles would have been removed in future development in the area to the immediate view.

John Ghent Leicester Estate Agent · Follow Leicester’s Lost Giant – Belgrave Road Station This photo stops me in my tracks every time. Belgrave Road Station once had six full platforms under a vast three-span iron and glass roof—a MONSTROUS piece of engineering that could have been the backbone of Leicester’s transport today. Here it is in 1963, packed with people for an enthusiasts’ special, possibly the very last passenger train ever to leave. Imagine if we’d kept these rail links alive. It kills me inside to think this no longer exists. Just look at the size of it. The ambition. The foresight. Do you remember it? Did your parents or grandparents ever travel through here? Share your stories, old photos, or memories—let’s bring this mighty station back to life, if only for a moment. Belgrave Road Station, Leicester – 1963

Isn’t it Ipswich mid week?

A good performance shame about the ref but if they can repeat that against some of the weaker teams I’m optimistic they can have decent season

Not interfering with play on the initial shot so should have been a corner to us.

We need to approach teams at our level 😏like this.

Making excuses now for them only being 1-0

… and so patronising

What frustrates fans is the total bias from the commentators

Ale getting passed every time

Better 2nd half that went down when Ricardo went off Shame no one can finish

History of Leicestershire in Images Charlotte Victoria Hubbard · All-star contributor As you can see from the aerial view W. A Lea’s had a false upper floor on the Charles Street side.

Do you wish you had the skill to think of something original

Not a skill but a wish that I still had sufficient hearing to listen to music, the radio, especially comedies podcasts etc. I don't have a musical bone or rhythm in my body but my son and MrsG, who are both songwriters and to hear what they have produced would give me so much joy.

Team of ex-Leicester City players bid to save club after dramatic summer Morecambe signed their sixth former Leicester City player this week as they look to survive in the National League under the guidance of Leicester-born manager Ashvir Singh Johal Sport ByJordan Blackwell 11:15, 18 SEP 2025Updated11:40, 18 SEP 2025 National League side Morecambe are building a side of former Leicester City players in a bid to save themselves from relegation. The Shrimps’ recruitment drive continued this week with the arrival of a sixth former City player as manager Ashvir Singh Johal looks close to home. Singh Johal was born in Leicester and worked as a coach in the club’s academy. He’s now, at 30, the youngest manager in England’s top five leagues. He was appointed last month after the Panjab Warriors consortium took over Morecambe. Amid unpaid wages, the club had been suspended from the National League and their existence was on a knife edge. When Singh Johal came in, Morecambe had just five contracted players, and so the club have been busy building a squad over the past few weeks. Singh Johal has used his Leicester connections to bring in a host of former City players, including, this week, Arjan Raikhy. This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more The midfielder, who joined City’s development squad from Aston Villa in 2023, played three times for the senior side under Enzo Maresca. He was released this summer and joined Boston United in the National League. After four appearances there, he’s now switched to Morecambe on loan. There he joins five other players to have been developed at City. Those include centre-back Alie Sesay, who spent four years with the club before leaving in 2016. He’s returned to English football after eight years away to join Morecambe, having represented clubs in Sweden, Greece, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Vietnam in the meantime. Leicester-born winger and attacking midfielder George Thomas has also joined the Shrimps after being released by Cambridge this summer. Showing promise at Coventry, Thomas joined City but never quite managed to break through into the first team. He was an unused substitute three times under Claude Puel. Then there are three forwards who all came up through City’s academy. Harry Panayiotou, now 30, scored on his one and only City appearance aged 17 in a final-day-of-the-season win over Leeds in 2012. Admiral Muskwe was a regular on the scoresheet for City Under-21s but never quite made a breakthrough at the King Power Stadium. Now a Zimbabwe international, he joined Morecambe from Finnish side Mariehamm. Fellow striker Josh Eppiah also came up through the ranks at City but did not make a first-team appearance. He’s signed for the Shrimps after spending time in Brazil. After a dramatic win over Altrincham in Singh Johal’s first game, Morecambe then lost four in a row before drawing 4-4 with Solihull Moors at the weekend, Muskwe getting on the scoresheet twice. They are bottom of the table as things stand, but have played three games fewer after their early-season matches were postponed amid their financial insecurity. https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/team-ex-leicester-city-players-10509081

Leicestershire County Cricket Club · Follow 𝗟𝗘𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 An incredible season. An incredible team. #Foxes

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