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City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

By davieG, in General Chat

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I haven't driven near The Cattle Market /Aylestone Road/Rawdykes area since before Covid until last week.

 

I was under the impression that there were major road works taking months to complete, causing major disruption.

 

When I went that way out of Leicester, I couldn't see anything different :dunno:

davieG

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Old Leicester wasn’t always a better place back then. This is the Aylestone district looking towards the power station from the roof of the colleges of art and technology in January 1954.
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Paninistickers

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10 minutes ago, davieG said:

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Old Leicester wasn’t always a better place back then. This is the Aylestone district looking towards the power station from the roof of the colleges of art and technology in January 1954.

I can remember the two cooling towers being blown up. 

 

 

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On 05/04/2024 at 13:03, davieG said:

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And it looks like the nice art deco building next to the station is going soon, too,

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Walked through town after the game tonight for the first time in ages and don’t get me wrong theirs some really rough parts of the centre but equally theirs parts of it that have a “proper” big city feel to it and a buzz about it

 

Weather helps too

 

Something you don’t get at all in Cov, Northampton etc

 

Leicester folk definitely love to talk the place down

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Izzy

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Goodness know why this cropped up on my YT timeline!

 

May have been posted on here before but a wonderful look at the city from 1964

 

 

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Hutchinson Walk ( The Birdcage ) runs between Hutchinson st. and Swain St . Leicester .
A favourite place for trainspotting back in the day .
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Now and Then. The Dover Street Baptist Church, which became the Rechabite Hall and then the Little Theatre.

 

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Tracklaying at the junction of Welford Road and Clarendon Park Road in 1903
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Now and Then. A photographers and artists studio stood on the corner of London Road and Conduit Street pictured about 1920. And now of course, long gone. To the left, you can just see part of the London Road statio
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charles street, City Hall on the left in top picture. I believe it was widen in the 30s

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