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City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

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Female Asylum in the Newarke
In 1800 a Female Asylum was established in Leicester for ‘girls of respectable parentage who have lost one or both parents’. Founded in the 1800’s by the famous Vicar of St. Mary’s The Rev’d Thomas Robinson. For the purpose of training orphans as domestic servants. The institution occupied a building on The Newarke, on the corner of Asylum Street. This was on the opposite side of the Newarke to the Newarke Houses Museum and was a long white building with a depth of about 200 ft. It was demolished in 1927 and part of the De Montfort University, Hawthorne Building, now occupies this site. The premises could occupy around up to 16 females. Those applying for admission had to be at least 12 years old and provide medical certificates and references as to good character.
Information credit and more: http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/LeicesterNewarke/; http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol4/pp346-347 and the book “Modern Leicester” by Robert Read Jnr. Published in 1881
Photograph: The Newarke with the Technical School, to the left, and the Female Asylum on the corner of Asylum Street, to the right
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Lower Churchgate, to the right is the Malt Shovel pub 1911. Lower Church Gate ran roughly along the line of St. Margaret's Way. On the old 1904 map it starts at the junction of Sanvey Gate and St. Margaret Street and runs down towards the canal. This area completely changed with the building of St Margaret's Way and the inner ring road.
 
St Margaret's Church on the left the only thing left standing. Walking along here took you to Abbey Park
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The Gypsy Lane Hotel Leicester 1950`s .
 
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Fantastic PUB, played Darts for over twenty years 1980/90s with the great ERNIE 'THE CHAMP' SIDDONS 👍 Great people a community pub 100% Sadly sold and a temple 🛕 now.
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"We are thrilled to be announcing Home Grown Leicestershire. The event has been twelve months in the making, and we are excited with all the musical acts that will be playing. We also have the perfect venue at the Racecourse to create a real day of celebration." - Red Panda Events
All the details in this weekly Leicester music news.
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New direct Leicester to Heathrow and Gatwick coach service launched

Bosses say it will help people planning their summer holidays

 

 

FlixBus has 200 vehicles on the UK's roads (Image: FlixBus)

 

A new bus service connecting Leicester and Nottingham with London's two main airports has been launched. The FlixBus services will start later this month and cost less than £10.

The services, which will run to and from Heathrow and Gatwick, will begin running later this month. FlixBus say services will run three times a day in each direction, with fares starting at £8.99.

People will be able to buy tickets online or via the FlixBus app. Managing director of FlixBus UK, Andreas Schorling, said: “Following the successful launch of our London airport services to Birmingham, we’re now proudly bringing seamless, affordable transport links to the East Midlands. Whether it’s a holiday of a lifetime abroad or a weekend away in the UK, FlixBus is the ultimate companion to your travel plans!”

 

The Leicester and Nottingham service is set to begin on Thursday, April 17, and people will be able to board at St Margaret's Bus Station in Leicester city centre and at Fosse Park. The FlixBus service is also expanding its service for the West Midlands, increasing to 10 journeys a day for its London airport service from Birmingham next week.

FlixBus started in Germany in 2011 and came to the UK just under four years ago. It now has a network with 200 vehicles with 80 stops around England, Scotland and Wales.

Mr Schorling added: "The addition of this airport route for Nottingham and Leicester strengthens our network and allows us to serve more passengers than ever in time for summer."

More information can be found on the FlixBus website.

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Did you know that the Leicester Infirmary (now Leicester Royal Infirmary) was established in 1771 after a successful campaign led by Dr William Watts. Fundraising meetings were held in the Three Cranes pub in Humberstone Gate.
When the hospital opened, it had just 40 beds, a surgeon, matron, two nurses, a laundry maid, labourer, porter and cook. Nurses had to live in the hospital and have no children.
Fully trained nurses were not employed in the hospital until the 1860s.
In 1889 HRH Princess Louise, Queen Victoria’s daughter, opened a new Children’s Hospital wing. This photo shows one of the children's wards in the 1890s. From the Collection of University of Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Cool As Leicester  · 

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"We are thrilled to be announcing Home Grown Leicestershire. The event has been twelve months in the making, and we are excited with all the musical acts that will be playing. We also have the perfect venue at the Racecourse to create a real day of celebration." - Red Panda Events
All the details in this weekly Leicester music news.


Was looking up a couple early 2010s indie bands and was interested to see their main pictures on Wikipedia were from the old Summer Sundae Festival on the De Monfort Hall grounds, apparently clothe last one 2012 but the wiki article didn’t say why and I can’t find anything else on it shutting up shop, anyone know why? Seemed like it had a pretty interesting line-up of American and English alternative and indie bands. 

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Old postcard view of Humberstone Gate, looking from near the corner of Haymarket. The card was posted from Leicester Midland Railway Station to Nancy in France in February 1908. On the left, at the Haymarket corner, is the premises of the tobacconist Salmon & Gluckstein who were here for many years. The second shop along with a sign above the awning belonged to Charles Usher, a watch maker and jeweller. The building later became the Yorkshire Penny Bank. The smaller building after Charles Usher’s shop was the old Tower Vaults which was rebuilt and enlarged on that site in 1929. The licensee about the time of this photo was James Cleaver who had also been the proprietor of the Victoria Hotel for many years (the Victoria Hotel building is now a Sainsbury’s Local next to the YMCA on Granby Street, the old hotel building, as a pub, had many name changes over the years, including being called the King’s Head and the Wyvern and was popularly known as the Dirty Duck in the 1970s). James Cleaver was born in Leicester in 1850 and was the son of a Bass Brewery agent named Samuel Cleaver. By the time of the 1881 census he was hotel keeper at the Victoria Hotel and the household included his wife, Clara Caroline Cleaver, and three young sons, Frederick, John and Frank. He was still residing as Hotel Keeper there at the time of the 1891 census and local directories of the 1880s, 1890s and early 1900s show him as licensed victualler at both the Victoria Hotel and the Tower Vaults. Earlier, Wright’s directory of 1878 shows James Cleaver as victualler just at the Tower Vaults (before that time the Vaults had been named the Barrel). By the time of Wright’s 1911 directory James Cleaver is shown just as Victualler for the Tower Vaults again. The 1911 census shows Mr Cleaver and his wife residing at 94 London Road. His occupation is entered as Licensed Victualler. The 1901 and 1911 censuses show a widow named Elizabeth Thornton at the Tower Vaults who was employed by Mr Cleaver as Manageress there. James Cleaver died, aged 64, in February 1915 and was laid to rest in Welford Road Cemetery. At little further along, where the rear tram is standing opposite, is the Stag and Pheasant Hotel. The old hotel had been a coaching inn during the late 1700s to early 1800s and a successful hotel during Victorian times. In 1905 the hotel underwent extensive rebuilding work and a new frontage was added in an historical Elizabethan style, as seen in this picture, replacing the plainer Georgian frontage. The Leicester Chronicle reported in October 1904 the discussion of the rebuilding plans by the Mayor and other magistrates at the Licensing Sessions held in the Town Hall. The Bench were prepared to approve the plans subject to a slight alteration and the architect, William Henry Simpson of Leicester, withdrew the plans to make the amendments. It has been stated in later articles about the Stag and Pheasant that the designer of the 1905 work was William Morton Cowdell, another Leicester architect, but I can’t confirm this in the contemporary newspaper reports. The licensee of the modernised hotel was Edward Baker who is entered as the victualler there in Wright’s 1906 directory. By 1911 the hotel manager was Albert Ludecke who is shown as residing there in the census that year. Mr Ludecke was born in Germany around 1864 but appears to have been resident in England since at least the 1880s, having married in Buckinghamshire at the age of 20 in April 1884. By the time of the 1891 census he was living in the Norwood area of south London and was working as a butler. The census shows him with his wife, Ellen, and two daughters and two sons, the youngest, Frederick, being only one month old. By 1901 Mr Ludecke had become manager of the North Stafford Hotel in Winton Square, Stoke-on-Trent, which stands opposite Stoke railway station. By this time two more daughters had been added to the family. Following his move about 1907 to the Stag and Pheasant at Leicester Mr Ludecke was in charge of a large number of staff there as shown in the 1911 census. He appears to have departed from the hotel during the early part of the First World War and Kelly’s Directory of 1916 shows the manager to be then Alfred James Tatton who died in December 1918. At the time of the 1921 census Harry George Westgate is shown as proprietor at the hotel and is shown residing there with his wife, Jane. The 1911 census shows that Mr Westgate had previously been a veterinary surgeon at Peterborough. In 1924 he purchased the George Hotel in Kettering and Frederick Haw took over as manager at the Stag and Pheasant in Leicester. The hotel was finally closed on Saturday 31st October 1959 and was demolished, together with neighbouring buildings and those in Haymarket, in the early 1960s to clear the site ready for the construction of the Littlewoods building which was opened in 1967 (now occupied by the TK Maxx store).
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Here is the Bishop Street Municipal Library in Leicester - photo taken in 1930.
When it opened in 1905, the library was seen as a particular benefit to “the manual labourer – the working man, the poor man and his children”. On the date of its opening the Leicester Daily Post wrote that it was better “that the average shoe operative, factory worker or shop assistant should spend his leisure hours with Dickens, Thackeray, Scott or George Elliot” rather than “soak in a pub” or “hang around street corners”.
Now know as the Leicester Central Library, it provides an important free service to Leicester residents to this day.
Photo from the Leicester and Leicestershire Record Office.

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