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City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

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On 23/11/2020 at 16:54, davieG said:

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I like this. I am interested in local history and frequently go into the online archive on the National Library of Scotland website, which covers the whole of the UK and not just Scotland. It shows that just before the arrival of the railways and the Industrial Revolution Leicester had sunk considerably in importance and was well below its current status as one of the 10 largest cities in the UK.

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Quorn on television! On Friday 18th December at 8pm on Channel 5, Quorn stars in the East Midlands episode of Walking Britain’s Lost Railways. Presenter Rob Bell visits Quorn Great Central Station, learns a bit about our village and gets hands on loading goods from the goods shed. Thank you to Jack Shaw for the photograph – and watch out for Jack in the programme!

 

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On 21/10/2020 at 11:48, Webbo said:

I remember going to the ABC minors as a little kid. Mighty Mouse,Woody Woodpecker, Captain Marvel and some kids film every Saturday morning.

 

IIrc if you bought 3 badges A, B, and C you could have a badge with your name on it. When I went up to ask for my badge the man asked me my name, when I told him he  kept saying "y'what?". I never did get my badge  lol 

I must have seen the ABC right at the end of its time. Mid 90s I suspect. Think I saw something with Jim Carrey in it. 
Am I right in thinking there was a Cannon Cinema as well? That's all a bit blurry to me but feel like it was the same thing?

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1 hour ago, fox_up_north said:

I must have seen the ABC right at the end of its time. Mid 90s I suspect. Think I saw something with Jim Carrey in it. 
Am I right in thinking there was a Cannon Cinema as well? That's all a bit blurry to me but feel like it was the same thing?

I can't remember a Cannon cinema, there was the old Odeon? 

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1 hour ago, fox_up_north said:

I must have seen the ABC right at the end of its time. Mid 90s I suspect. Think I saw something with Jim Carrey in it. 
Am I right in thinking there was a Cannon Cinema as well? That's all a bit blurry to me but feel like it was the same thing?

 

3 minutes ago, Webbo said:

I can't remember a Cannon cinema, there was the old Odeon? 

The ABC was the Cannon and the Savoy and a few other as well.

 

Just googled it to confirm.

 

The Savoy Cinema was built for and operated by the Associated British Cinemas chain(ABC), and opened on 4th June 1937 with John Lodge in “Sensation”. It was designed in an Art Deco style by ABC’s in-house architect William R. Glen with further input from C. Wilford Smith. The cinema was equipped with a Compton 3Manual/6Rank organ which had an illuminated console and a Melotone attached. It was opened by Wilfred Southworth. There was a small stage and dressing rooms which was used in the early days and in the 1960’s pop concerts were held. In 1959 the Savoy Cinema was equipped with Todd A-O and 70mm projection and it had a long run with a Roadshow presentation of “South Pacific”.

It was re-named ABC in 1960 and the cinema was twinned in 1970 with 606 seats in the former circle and 910 seats in the screen located in the former stalls. It was at this time that the organ was removed and it is now installed in the Regent Theatre, Fleggburgh near Great Yarmouth. In 1973 the rear of the former stalls was divided into two screens that seated 410 and 232.

ABC were taken over by EMI and then Cannon and it was re-named Cannon Film Centre. In 1991 Cannon were no long in charge and the name changed again to MGM and finally back to ABC. It closed on 16th January 1997 with a screening of “Star Trek-First Contact”. It then remained closed and boarded up. In March 2006 plans were approved to demolish the building and build a ten-storey apartment block, 100 bedroom hotel, casino and shops on the site.

In 2007, the bulldozers moved in and by the end of the year, the former Savoy Cinema was no more. In March 2008, the site is an empty plot, used for car-parking.

 

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/17354

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Thanks for that, much appreciated. I remember the Meridian opening up and absolutely killing the city centre ones. 

I have just done some checking, however, and found another one that I remember near Haymarket - http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/16650

 

Opened in September 1969 as the Cinecenta, it had three screens seating 280, 198 and 136. Initially the two larger screens showed regular films and the smaller screen was known as the Penthouse Cinema Club which screened uncensored ‘adult’ films. The cinema is located on the ground floor of a multi-storey car-park and hotel complex.

It was taken over by Star Cinemas Ltd. in 1979, followed by Cannon Cinemas in August 1985. Closed on 2nd October 1986 as the MGM, it remained empty for several years until it was re-opened as the Cannon Cinema on 14th July 1990. Later taken over by the ABC chain, who already operated the four-screen ABC (former Savoy) in Belgrave Gate, which was only one minute away. The ABC Abbey Street became a ‘move-over’ cinema.

 

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Boohoo cuts ties with 64 Leicester suppliers with plans for its own 'huge' city factory

 

 

Under-fire bosses of fashion giant Boohoo have set out details of their plans for a ‘huge’ new Leicester factory after cutting ties with more than 60 of its suppliers in the city over concerns staff were being underpaid and overworked in poor conditions,

Company executives appeared before MPs recently to be asked about what they have been doing to tackle issues in the city’s garment industry which have been exposed in a string of reports.

Boohoo’s operations director Andrew Reaney told the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee the company had cut ties with 64 suppliers in the city in recent months.

But he said Boohoo was committed to Leicester and was pressing ahead with its own manufacturing plans in the city - with a new factory in Thurmaston Lane.

Mr Reaney said: “At this point, we have applied for planning permission.

“The factory itself will be huge. We are talking about potentially 60 machinists, which is equivalent to 85, 90 workers.

“That is 90 more jobs in Leicester, and we are going to move our own sourcing and ethical and technical compliance team into the same building as well.

“That is part of our commitment to Leicester and part of us wanting to demonstrate to the industry that this is what a model for best practice looks like.”

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/boohoo-cuts-ties-64-leicester-4826559

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https://www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/build_nls_historic_map.pl?map_location= Leicester LEICESTER City of Leicester&search_location=Leicester%2C City of Leicester%2C SK5804%2C SK 58 04&os_series=1&is_sub=&pwd=freesearch%40freesearch.com&latitude=52.630664&longitude=-1.144498&postcode=&fbclid=IwAR3CR2T41Ib62Ca8e6wJt20BAyg9fLwWkQQI1_s0n_HzrCYPg1lQdwWa0NQ

 

 

A website where you can see old maps of the UK, including Leicester, and if you move the slider, it shows you what is on that spot now.

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13 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Found this on my YouTube suggestions. I went to the stadium once when I was little, early 80s at a guess

 

It seemed huge from.my very vague memories of it. But, more or less, looking at this footage it's exactly as i pictured it. A ramshackle but kinda marvellous concrete bowl. 

 

 

I have never seen this stadium before, looks magnificent. 

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14 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Found this on my YouTube suggestions. I went to the stadium once when I was little, early 80s at a guess

 

It seemed huge from.my very vague memories of it. But, more or less, looking at this footage it's exactly as i pictured it. A ramshackle but kinda marvellous concrete bowl. 

 

 

Just watched this, great memories, think I used to go down the season or so before that.

 

Tuesday nights I think it was, great occasions, great memories. 

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13 hours ago, Rob1742 said:

Just watched this, great memories, think I used to go down the season or so before that.

 

Tuesday nights I think it was, great occasions, great memories. 

I went a few times and wanted to enjoy it but the penny soon dropped that, whatever the order of the riders was going into the first bend, that was the finishing order most of the time.

Watching that youtube video though makes that comment seem like an exaggeration but that's how it seemed to me.

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On 03/01/2021 at 09:33, davieG said:

https://www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/build_nls_historic_map.pl?map_location= Leicester LEICESTER City of Leicester&search_location=Leicester%2C City of Leicester%2C SK5804%2C SK 58 04&os_series=1&is_sub=&pwd=freesearch%40freesearch.com&latitude=52.630664&longitude=-1.144498&postcode=&fbclid=IwAR3CR2T41Ib62Ca8e6wJt20BAyg9fLwWkQQI1_s0n_HzrCYPg1lQdwWa0NQ

 

 

A website where you can see old maps of the UK, including Leicester, and if you move the slider, it shows you what is on that spot now.

That's actually fantastic

 

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1 hour ago, fleckneymike said:

Leicester and Leicestershire map from 1630

 

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~285255~90057928:Leicestershire-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:leicester;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=1&trs=30

Interesting how the spelling of certain places has changed over the centuries.

 

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On 08/01/2021 at 22:49, Free Falling Foxes said:

I went a few times and wanted to enjoy it but the penny soon dropped that, whatever the order of the riders was going into the first bend, that was the finishing order most of the time.

Watching that youtube video though makes that comment seem like an exaggeration but that's how it seemed to me.

There was a definite advantage, but if you were Ollie Olsen or Les Collins or Jason Crump you could have been in lane two with your bike facing backwards and they still would have won.

 

What I used to think was when the riders came  out, if Regeling or whoever the minor riders were at the time, there was no chance of them ever winning a heat. So straight away your heart sank and you put all your hopes on the other rider 

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