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23 archive pictures show 1960s Leicester holiday traffic mayhem

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/gallery/leicester-1960-dip-archive-brings-6936185

 

Leicester in 1960: 33 of our archive photos show city entering a tumultuous decade

 

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Moving in the Shadows – 7 day pass
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Documentary exploring cultural legacy of Leicester in the 1960s now available to watch online

 

Remembering Leicester’s 1960s' Creative Scene
"In Leicester in the swinging sixties times were changing. New freedoms and opportunities enabled young people to forge a cultural revolution - and an explosion of working class creative talent began to emerge from the Midlands. It was the rise of the underdog.

When my dad passed away, I discovered some tapes in the attic. Early into the millennium, he’d recorded his memories from the sixties. I’d always been amazed that many of Dad’s teenage friends and contemporaries went on to do brilliant things. And I wanted to know why.

This is the untold story of Leicester’s creative scene, which shines a light on some of those faces who weren’t in the limelight, but 'moving in the shadows.’"

Joe Nixon

‘Moving in the shadows’ is written & directed by Joe Nixon, in association with Soft Touch Arts & Arch Creative.

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, davieG said:

We took our young children to a cattle market there, shortly before it closed for good.

One of them needed the loo. I found one and opened the door.

What greeted me was the most disgustingly filthy public bog imaginable and, as you'll appreciate, it was up against some pretty stiff competition.

In fact, I would go as far to say it made that toilet in Trainspotting look like the pinnacle of cleanliness and hygiene.

Needless to say we didn't use it.

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BR standard class No2, 78028 on the afternoon goods train from Desford to West Bridge leaving the Glenfield tunnel. Two of these locomotives had to have cut down cabs because of the low clearance. The line closed in 1966.

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Bath Lane 1977

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The area around the Midland Railway Station in London Road, Leicester. Straight ahead is the Parcel Depot while to the right there is a procession of trams heading in both directions on London Road. The building on the extreme left is the Wyvern Hotel.

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Leicester Memories

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Charles Street island, Leicester in December 1963. Waiting for the Thurnby Lodge bus and taken with a Kodak Instamatic. They are building the Abbey Hotel at the time. Lots of other old Leicester businesses can be seen too. Re-edited.

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I came across this in my photos thought it might be of interest.

It is the former Trocadero Cinema and Ballroom, junction with Uppingham Rd and

Scraptoft Lane. Went to the Saturday morning films, as well as main

cinema, remember Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii. Also saw the

Rolling Stones. Great times.

Sad watching it burn down that evening along with many other people.

Mary

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1 hour ago, davieG said:

 

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The area around the Midland Railway Station in London Road, Leicester. Straight ahead is the Parcel Depot while to the right there is a procession of trams heading in both directions on London Road. The building on the extreme left is the Wyvern Hotel.

The two tower blocks built next to it are abysmal, any visitor arriving fro,, the station is created by two whopping eyesores - better still we're pivoting the station entrance around so the two eyesore are even more prominent!

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28 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

 

It was principally the Notts miners who get the grief for not striking…. Although a much smaller industry in Leics we barely had any striking miners…. 
 

I remember as a very young boy my Mum giving me a fair amount of money (for us) to go and put in their collection pot on Galowtree Gate…

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History of Leicestershire in Images

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Oxford Street. they retained the arched doorway of the building that once stood there for some reason.

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1 hour ago, Wolfox said:

It was principally the Notts miners who get the grief for not striking…. Although a much smaller industry in Leics we barely had any striking miners…. 
 

I remember as a very young boy my Mum giving me a fair amount of money (for us) to go and put in their collection pot on Galowtree Gate…

I remember as a kid collections in town for the miners and even then, thinking it was odd since Leicestershire miners were at work. 

 

I googled the other day as to why Notts (and Leicestershire and I'm guessing Nuneaton too) miners worked when Yorkshire, Kent and South Wales didn't. Apparently twofold

 

1. They had a businesslike culture and working relationship with management to maximise pit profitability and shared in the financial success..

 

2. Government had no Notts pit down for closure, so as to deliberately split the miners' unity

 

 

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3 hours ago, Wolfox said:

It was principally the Notts miners who get the grief for not striking…. Although a much smaller industry in Leics we barely had any striking miners…. 
 

I remember as a very young boy my Mum giving me a fair amount of money (for us) to go and put in their collection pot on Galowtree Gate…

Ive always thought it strange Barnsley and Sheffield clubs don't give us the heat they do Forest.

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7 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

Ive always thought it strange Barnsley and Sheffield clubs don't give us the heat they do Forest.

The numbers….
 

There were

 

Under 2k in Leicestershire -10% striking 

 

30k in Nottinghamshire - 20% striking 

 

56k in S Yorks -  96% striking 

 

Leicestershire wouldn’t have really registered as ‘a thing’…. There were more coal miners in Kent!

Edited 4 March by Wolfox

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Summer's day in Abbey Park, 1960s

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On 04/03/2024 at 14:05, SemperEadem said:

Ive always thought it strange Barnsley and Sheffield clubs don't give us the heat they do Forest.

Barnsley were still definitely giving us  grief mid 90's. " Scab, scab, scab " 😅

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Summer's day in Abbey Park, 1960s

 

Back when jumping off the bridge was allowed.

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Humberstone Gate and the Bell Hotel before the Haymarket abomination.

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The green fields are the site of the Granby Halls, to the left is Mandela park, to the right is the Victory pub and the infirmary (hidden)

 

 

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Its the old toll house and weighbridge...Not many people knew there was one sited here... 

 

 

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Leicester Memories

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On 07/03/2024 at 03:19, davieG said:

Humberstone Gate and the Bell Hotel before the Haymarket abomination.

 

The Bell Hotel - site of so many moments in the history of the club. Here's a topically relevant one (well, hopefully).

 

In July 1954, the club held their promotion celebration party at the hotel. We'd finished champions of Division Two ahead of Everton on goal average. There that night was Shirley Hubbard - the only player from 1908 who could attend. 

 

What happened in 1908? Our first ever promotion to the top flight.

 

Here's Hubbard with Arthur Chandler in the 1930s, when he returned to the club as coach.

 

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Hello, this is Leicester 412. Could you put me through to Market Harborough 79?

This is the Leicester telephone exchange, back in the days when phoning was much more complicated – except of course for the phone numbers (fewer phones, you see).

This is how you telephoned someone in those days: You would ring the local telephone exchange, where an operator would see a light flash, “plug you in” and switch on their headset before asking “number please?”

Depending on your answer, they would then put you straight through if your call was local, or forward you to another exchange if your call was long-distance.

In the early 20th Century, it could easily take 15 minutes on a long-distance call before the operator could say “connecting you now”.

This telephone exchange was in Rutland Street, Leicester. The year is about 1912.

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On 06/03/2024 at 18:23, davieG said:

Jim Soame

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The green fields are the site of the Granby Halls, to the left is Mandela park, to the right is the Victory pub and the infirmary (hidden)

 

 

Terry Jones

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Its the old toll house and weighbridge...Not many people knew there was one sited here... 

 

 

Particularly prescient of them to name it Mandela Park before Nelson was even born!!!

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