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City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

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davieG

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May be an image of 6 people, people studying and text

We love this photo of Leicester Central Library, we don't have an exact date but possibly late 1940's
It's changed a lot but customers may still recognise the banister at the top of the stairs leading down to the staff area in the basement.
Free Falling Foxes

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May be an image of television and text that says "AINLEYS V-I-D-E-0 NOU・8-1-C AINLEYS AIN ..8-0 S N AINUTS M·U.S.I.C M•U ANLEYS V.I.D•E.O V V.I·D E.0 EVERYTHING DOWN SALE 日 GO HUGE DISCOUE CLOSING DOWN CLOSINGDOWNSALE SALE"

Belgrave Gate Ainleys.

Only used Ainleys as an absolute last resort. It was the only shop I've known that had a blatant policy of; the customer is always wrong.

 

I guess most of us from the 'vinyl' era needed to take a record back because of it jumping or whatever. Well, it was a nightmare at that shop.

They never accepted the customers word and would interrogate you about your equipment and look at the disc itself closely, looking for the fault. The wife of a chap I worked with once tried to return one and they made her listen to the offending track play, without jumping, on the instore record player. They refused to replace it.

I think they must have had the tone arm weighed down with a brick, because it jumped on other folks systems.

 

They also started putting signs on the record racks stating, they reckoned, that a vast majority of faulty records weren't faulty at all, it was down to the customer.

 

Awful shop.

 

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Got an album signed there from all of the Shed Seven lads back in the 90’s. Happy times 

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Speaking of 'awful place' in that area, I recall a small computer games shop,.somewhere off churchgate /  at the back of what is now highcross / east bond street. 

 

I was never much into 80s gaming, but had a spectrum and wanted to kinda join in with schoolmates and apprehensively entered the shop, asked nervously if he did 'games for spectrum' and was roundly mocked and verbally abused by the shop owner. 

 

Obvs I never dared go in again. But learnt a very good business lesson that day. 

 

Edit; that was in response to @Free Falling Foxes post

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davieG

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9 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Speaking of 'awful place' in that area, I recall a small computer games shop,.somewhere off churchgate /  at the back of what is now highcross / east bond street. 

 

I was never much into 80s gaming, but had a spectrum and wanted to kinda join in with schoolmates and apprehensively entered the shop, asked nervously if he did 'games for spectrum' and was roundly mocked and verbally abused by the shop owner. 

 

Obvs I never dared go in again. But learnt a very good business lesson that day. 

 

Edit; that was in response to @Free Falling Foxes post

A bit like this then

 

 

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6 hours ago, davieG said:

May be an image of television and text that says "AINLEYS V-I-D-E-0 NOU・8-1-C AINLEYS AIN ..8-0 S N AINUTS M·U.S.I.C M•U ANLEYS V.I.D•E.O V V.I·D E.0 EVERYTHING DOWN SALE 日 GO HUGE DISCOUE CLOSING DOWN CLOSINGDOWNSALE SALE"

Belgrave Gate Ainleys.

Back before logging on at 9.00am to buy tickets for a gig only to find that at 2.00pm it's crashed, you could walk into Ainley's, give some paper money to the assistant & walk out with tickets for a major gig.

Progress is a wonderful thing.

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3 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Speaking of 'awful place' in that area, I recall a small computer games shop,.somewhere off churchgate /  at the back of what is now highcross / east bond street. 

 

I was never much into 80s gaming, but had a spectrum and wanted to kinda join in with schoolmates and apprehensively entered the shop, asked nervously if he did 'games for spectrum' and was roundly mocked and verbally abused by the shop owner. 

 

Obvs I never dared go in again. But learnt a very good business lesson that day. 

 

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Was it Churchgate Computers opposite where TJs used to be? Went in once and was told by the owner it's not really a browsing shop. Which was fair as the stock was pretty much just stacked around the place. Sounds like the same kind of attitude though.

davieG

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This year on the 27th September marks the 200th anniversary of the first passenger railway journey on the Stockton Darlington railway, this is being celebrated across the country as RAIL200.
Today saw the first test of the Glenfield miniature railway which we are hoping to offer rides on this summer to celebrate RAIL200, if all goes well then we will be offering weekend trips up and down a 70 metre track.
This is a momentous occasion as it is the first time a tracked railway has been used in the tunnel since it closed to all railway traffic in 1966 and passenger trains haven’t run since 1928!
It has taken an enormous amount of effort by the members of the Leicestershire industrial history society and the Leicester museums technology association working out of Abbey pumping station over the past 18 months.
Look out for the advertisement for these trips here on Facebook next week and just to whet your appetite here is a video of today’s testing.
The loco is battery powered for everyone’s safety.

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