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What has changed in Leicester in the last several years?

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So i will be coming back home for the first time in a few years  around April time. Dreading the idea of bringing kids onto the plane but hey ho... 

 

 

I just wondered if anything significant has happened over the last few years that has dramatically changed the landscape of the feel of the place?

 

 

it's a bit of a weird mix of emotions.. really excited to be coming back but will it be the same?!

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Finnegan

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Quite a lot actually. 

 

Basically, the gallowtree gate / Charles Street end now looks like Beirut. 

 

But the High Street, around the cathedral, St Martins Square, the lanes by there etc have all had a serious makeover. 

 

The shires is now the high cross, not sure how long we're talking here you've been away, but it's now got a fairly presentable square full of chain restaurants. 

 

The above mentioned area around the cathedral is now more full of independent, slightly more hip eateries. 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Harry - LCFC said:

We won the league, that was fun!

Yes bittersweet.

 

Had my American wife muttering something about about i shouldnt be blubbering like a baby over a 'silly soccer game' lol

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3 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Quite a lot actually. 

 

Basically, the gallowtree gate / Charles Street end now looks like Beirut. 

 

But the High Street, around the cathedral, St Martins Square, the lanes by there etc have all had a serious makeover. 

 

The shires is now the high cross, not sure how long we're talking here you've been away, but it's now got a fairly presentable square full of chain restaurants. 

 

The above mentioned area around the cathedral is now more full of independent, slightly more hip eateries. 

 

 

 

 

I remember the highcross opening up and was here for a about a year after. Came for a whirlwind visit about 5 years ago but literally went from family home to family home to family home for the full week so didnt get to see much...

 

Hoping to  take in a bit more this time.... 

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4 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

There's now EIGHT Maryland Chicken branches in Leicester.

 

 

Woohoo! Can never have too many of those palces... haha

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The town centre is still shite aside from St Martins, the High Cross and the top of High Street. 

 

The Queen of Bradgate has gone upmarket.

 

Sadly, a lot of people seemed to get killed at night now, far too many stories of it over the last 18 months or so.

m4DD0gg

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Total shit hole sadly. 

 

Full of tribal africans, boarded up shops and smack heads.

 

Very violent place and not a patch on what it was 20 years ago.

 

 

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13 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Anyway, to cut a long story short, turns out I'd been parking over Richard III all these years.

 

 

Might have to pay him a visit, actually...

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3 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Are the swimming baths at St Margaret's still there? :dunno:

No, that's where the Highcross shopping centre is now.

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Just now, Webbo said:

No, that's where the Highcross shopping centre is now.

Ah, right. Has the bus station gone too then?

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Don't be shocked by the biodome surrounding the city. Since the nuclear attack by Stoke-on-Trent in 2014, much of Blaby, Wigston, Oadby and Countesthorpe is a desolate wasteland, incapable of supporting sentient life. Fortunately, the great Lord Soulsby acted promptly and Chinese engineers were able to erect the biodome swiftly, with little loss of life in the actual city centre, though the Royal Infirmary or The Battery as it is known locally, needs to offer up three lives everyday to appease the elder gods, or the shields will fail.

 

 

The fifty metre tall statue of Lord Soulsby can be disconcerting, but without him the Leicester you once knew and loved would be overrun by mutant potters. Count your blessings, we all do. I have to end this now as it's time for conditioning and the sirens are sounding.

 

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Just now, Izzy Muzzett said:

Ah, right. Has the bus station gone too then?

No the bus station is still there. there's another as well close to where the Haymarket is.

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2 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Don't be shocked by the biodome surrounding the city. Since the nuclear attack by Stoke-on-Trent in 2014, much of Blaby, Wigston, Oadby and Countesthorpe is a desolate wasteland, incapable of supporting sentient life. Fortunately, the great Lord Soulsby acted promptly and Chinese engineers were able to erect the bloodline swiftly, with little lose of life in the actual city centre, though the Royal Infirmary or The Battery as it is known locally, needs to offer up three lives everyday to appease the elder gods, or the shields will fail.

 

 

The fifty metre tall statue of Lord Soulsby can be disconcerting, but without him the Leicester you once knew and loved would be overrun by mutant potter's. Count your blessings, we all do. I have to end this now as it's time for conditioning and the sirens are sounding.

 

 

 

Biodomes are fine by me as long as i can still get  a proper breakfast!

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4 minutes ago, Webbo said:

No the bus station is still there. there's another as well close to where the Haymarket is.

Cool. My old dear said they were also spending a load of money on re-vamping the Haymarket theater? - which is nice...

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