City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

[davieG]

[Paninistickers]

This Soulsby idea with the market. I know the knee jerkers in the Mercury will slag anything he does, but he's got this bang on right. 

 

We have a potential piazza where market place is and, using one stone for two crows, he can shift the market towards the boutiquey St Martin's (and more artisan food hall)  and give the down-at-heel market a huge uplift

 

Credit where it's due. I hope he sees it through and doesn't bow down to the usual Leicester naysaying 

[WarehamFox]

I always thought it looked better as an open space from old photos. Would be nice if they could put temporary stalls on the open square when needed. Obviously food and/or beer festivals there would be great. Anyone know what’s going on with the stairs outside the Corn Exchange? 

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, Paninistickers said:

This Soulsby idea with the market. I know the knee jerkers in the Mercury will slag anything he does, but he's got this bang on right. 

 

We have a potential piazza where market place is and, using one stone for two crows, he can shift the market towards the boutiquey St Martin's (and more artisan food hall)  and give the down-at-heel market a huge uplift

 

Credit where it's due. I hope he sees it through and doesn't bow down to the usual Leicester naysaying 

 

I'm not convinced and I'm not a LM knee-jerker/nay-sayer.

 

If the market is moved as you suggest, then it'll have be downsized considerably thereby putting a number of traders out of Leicester. 

[Paninistickers]

28 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

I'm not convinced and I'm not a LM knee-jerker/nay-sayer.

 

If the market is moved as you suggest, then it'll have be downsized considerably thereby putting a number of traders out of Leicester. 

No plan could surely involve turfing out a permanent trader 

 

Is there that many? Not that I got to the market much (as it's dreadful) but can't be more than 30 traders surely. 

 

For me, they'll be better branded as boutiquey homestead stalls alongside the independents of silver street and the arcades. It's a natural fit. 

 

And the city gets a potentially very impressive open piazza to boot. 

 

I can see only upsides

[Parafox]

16 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

No plan could surely involve turfing out a permanent trader 

 

Is there that many? Not that I got to the market much (as it's dreadful) but can't be more than 30 traders surely. 

 

For me, they'll be better branded as boutiquey homestead stalls alongside the independents of silver street and the arcades. It's a natural fit. 

 

And the city gets a potentially very impressive open piazza to boot. 

 

I can see only upsides

"traders could be relocated to the planned “Cank Street Link”. The link plans will see a number of buildings between Green Dragon Square and Cank Street demolished"

 

Much more demolition and we'll end up like Coventry and no-one wants that. 

 

Green Dragon Square is already a "Piazza"  capable of hosting events 

 

 

I agree that the market as it is now, isn't very attractive or appealing but the initial plans to revamp it were pretty impressive:

 

 

Edited 28 May 2024 by Parafox

[Paninistickers]

7 minutes ago, Parafox said:

"traders could be relocated to the planned “Cank Street Link”. The link plans will see a number of buildings between Green Dragon Square and Cank Street demolished"

 

Much more demolition and we'll end up like Coventry and no-one wants that. 

 

Green Dragon Square is already a "Piazza"  capable of hosting events 

 

 

 

 

Still think me and Soulsby are right. But then I'm an outlier. I like his cycle lanes and train station plans too. 

 

 

[davieG]

 

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Renoir in Leicester! One of the world’s most famous artworks, Pierre-Auguste Renoir's The Umbrellas, is here until 1 September!

Thanks to National Gallery #NG200 birthday celebrations #NationalTreasures sees 12 iconic artworks loaned across the UK.

Come and see this iconic painting for free. http://leicestermuseums.org/RenoirInLeicester

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Umbrellas, about 1881-6. Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. © The National Gallery, London

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Leicester Memories

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In 1926 the Leicester Museum on New Walk acquired an impressive adult male Giraffe from Kenya .

It was mounted by the noted taxidermist Rowland Ward .

It was given the nickname of 'George' and, despite being a favourite with visitors, in the late 1960s it was transferred to Wollaton Hall Museum in Nottingham, where it can still be seen.

 

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John Gibbin

I remember it well, at the foot of the magnificent staircase that was ripped out when they ‘modernised’ the museum. I thought it was better before the refurbishment and the new exhibits and galleries would have been better placed in one of the many council owned buildings along New Walk

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I discovered this little trinket of local history for the first time tonight despite wandering by the area regularly. Pondering if it was a national sport 

 

[Parafox]

21 hours ago, davieG said:

 

 

Leicester Memories

Peter Taylor  ·   · 

 

 

In 1926 the Leicester Museum on New Walk acquired an impressive adult male Giraffe from Kenya .

It was mounted by the noted taxidermist Rowland Ward .

It was given the nickname of 'George' and, despite being a favourite with visitors, in the late 1960s it was transferred to Wollaton Hall Museum in Nottingham, where it can still be seen.

 

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John Gibbin

I remember it well, at the foot of the magnificent staircase that was ripped out when they ‘modernised’ the museum. I thought it was better before the refurbishment and the new exhibits and galleries would have been better placed in one of the many council owned buildings along New Walk

 

I remember the giraffe and this:

 

 

It had carp (I think) in it. Maybe it's not deep enough for carp, but there certainly was fish.

 

Back then when I was at Gateway Grammar school, the museum seemed a fascinating place to visit.

 

Sadly IMO it has become stale and uninteresting, but maybe that's just me being much older now.

Edited 1 June 2024 by Parafox

[davieG]

2 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

I remember the giraffe and this:

 

 

It had carp (I think) in it. Maybe it's not deep enough for carp, but there certainly was fish.

 

Back then when I was at Gateway Grammar school, the museum seemed a fascinating place to visit.

 

Sadly IMO it has become stale and uninteresting, but maybe that's just me being much older now.

I seem to remember Koi or Goldfish. 

I think it had a touch of class about it which was alien to most people now internally it's just some poorly maintained run of the mill modernist set up..

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[westernpark]

Nice to see pigeon man swinging his bags around town today. I thought he’d died.

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History of Leicestershire in Images

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History of Leicestershire in Images

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Humberstone Gate & Bell Hotel.

 

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Leicester's Saffron Lane in the 1940s

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Narborough Road South (Ford&Slater)

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A photo inside the Cossington Street Baths from 1983.

The Cossington Street swimming baths opened in 1897. During the winter months the swimming pools were drained and solid floors laid over them so that they could be used for a variety of winter activities, such as wrestling and dances. The baths have gone through numerous renovations throughout the years and the centre also now houses a gym.

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Wigston In Photos 1950-2000

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February 14th 1964

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Bowstring bridge..

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Bowstring bridge..

 

If the City council had any balls they should've listed it and told DMU to feck off.

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The first tramways in Leicester started horse-pulled operation in 1874, by the Leicester Tramways Company. The first route was from the Clock Tower to Belgrave. This was soon followed by lines to West Humberstone and to Victoria Park, which opened in 1875. 1878 saw further extensions, of the Victoria Park line along London Road to Knighton Road, and new arterial routes along Aylestone Road in the south, and to Woodgate in the north.

Leicester Corporation took over the tramways in 1901, under the Leicester Corporation Act, and a conversion to electric trams took place in 1904. This was accompanied by a large expansion, with links to Highfields, Clarendon Park, Western Park, and Narborough Road. Further expansions took place from 1915 to 1927.

From the 1920s the Corporation Transport department had run a motor bus service, and these started to replace trams in 1933. The last tram ran in 1949, on the Humberstone Road line. The main depot, at Abbey Park Road, continued in use as a bus depot by First Leicester, the successor to Leicester Corporation buses, until 2007 when a new depot opened on Abbey Lane. The site is to be redeveloped as flats. Another depot stood next to the Bell Hotel on Humberstone Gate.

From 1904 the tramway used a fleet of 99 double deck trams, supplemented by an additional 40 in 1905. Twenty new trams arrived in 1913/1914 for an experiment with "pay as you enter" boarding. The last new, numbers 161–178, came into service in 1920.

The National Tramway Museum holds tram No. 76, which was introduced in 1904 with electrification and stayed in use until 1947

Shared from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_Corporation_Tramways

Photograph ~ Abbey Park Road, Leicester