Is the City of Leicester a dump?

[Guest MattP]

20/20 and didn't have to even think

[Guest Manini]

3 hours ago, Wymeswold fox said:

How 'Leicester' are you?

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-citizenship-test-take-quiz-3612346

20/20. Piece of piss! 

[Jimothy]

20/20. 

[FoxesDeb]

20 out of 20, I thought they were really easy! I wasn't brought up here either 

[SemperEadem]

20/20 breezed it.

[Filbert_Ross]

23 hours ago, Wymeswold fox said:

How 'Leicester' are you?

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-citizenship-test-take-quiz-3612346

19/20. 
got the museum one wrong 

[lgfualol]

18/20 

 

Never woken up on a sunny day and thought about going Skeggy. Didn't realise it was such a thing. Went with Cromer as that is where I have been the most.

 

I have never seen the Leicester statue of liberty in my life lol - luckily Ranieri not having a statue is a great injustice that still lingers in my mind. 

[Soup]

19/20. Never called an Alley a Jitty. Growing up in New Parks there was an Alley cutting through the heart of New Parks to Glenfield called Black Alley. A proper scary place at night and legend has it that the witch Black Annis lived there. 

 

 

 

 

[Finnaldo]

20/20 breeze. 

 

Honestly I'd struggle to see where you'd get any wrong  

[Jaspa]

20/20 Although I only got Jitty because someone mentioned it on here.

 

Disappointed not to hear Cozzy or Croggie mentioned. Just found this quite old piece on Leicesterian slang aswell - http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/around_leicester/2002/11/leicester_dialect_collins_english_dictionary.shtml

[RoboFox]

Yeah, WTF is a jitty. 

 

Never heard of it in my life.

[Jimothy]

I got jitty because I assumed that's what they'd be getting at. But to me a jitty is a passage between two terrace houses, what's in the picture on a quiz is an alley.

[Jimothy]

5 hours ago, lgfualol said:

18/20 

 

Never woken up on a sunny day and thought about going Skeggy. Didn't realise it was such a thing. Went with Cromer as that is where I have been the most.

 

I have never seen the Leicester statue of liberty in my life - luckily Ranieri not having a statue is a great injustice that still lingers in my mind. 

I've never had an urge to go Skeggy, but the link between Leicester and Skeggy is well known. 

 

If you leave the King Power and head towards the old Filbert Street. Keep going until you get to the roundabout at the end of that road. The statue is on that traffic island. The building next to it used to be the Liberty Shoe factory and the statue stood on top.

[Finnaldo]

2 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

I got jitty because I assumed that's what they'd be getting at. But to me a jitty is a passage between two terrace houses, what's in the picture on a quiz is an alley.

I’ve always known jitty as any narrow urban passing to be honest

[davieG]

From this 

 

to this

 

 

and this

 

[Guest Electric Yetis]

13 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

I got jitty because I assumed that's what they'd be getting at. But to me a jitty is a passage between two terrace houses, what's in the picture on a quiz is an alley.

Never heard of jitty. Always been alleyway to me.

[RoboFox]

20 hours ago, davieG said:

From this 

 

to this

 

 

and this

 

Man, I hate seeing this.

 

The Liberty factory was a mess and in disrepair, but that facade at least could have been maintained if not a redevelopment of the entire building. It was a grade-II listed building when demolished, why on earth did the council allow it?

 

Replaced by soulless lego student flats which could be absolutely anywhere in the country. That wonderful art deco character lost in favour of that shit.

 

Edited 10 December 2019 by RoboFox

[Guest Electric Yetis]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

From this 

 

to this

 

 

and this

 

What does it say on the windows?

Little Gone

O'Neill Next

 

McGhee?

[foxile5]

22 minutes ago, pds said:

What does it say on the windows?

Little Gone

O'Neill Next

 

McGhee?

Fabulous memories seeing that delapidated building with semi legible graffiti. 

 

Halcyon days my friends, walking past the rat van to Filbo. 

[Soup]

2 hours ago, Facecloth said:

I got jitty because I assumed that's what they'd be getting at. But to me a jitty is a passage between two terrace houses, what's in the picture on a quiz is an alley.

I've always called these Entries. 

[Soar Fox]

18/20 

Museum 

Alley/jitty 

 

 

[Kinowe Soorie]

Are you even from Leicester if you haven’t heard of a Jitty?

Edited 9 December 2019 by Kinowe Soorie

[Guest Manini]

Yeah it’s Jitty first and foremost for me. Also use entry, ally, pad on occasion but only when somebody doesn’t understand what I mean when I say jitty, in hope they’ll recognise one  
 

Ginell and Snicket are the northern equivalents. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

That quiz falls at the first hurdle for me. The piece leading up to it refers to Lestah . 

Nope, if you are really from round here it is Lestoh

[SemperEadem]

11 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

That quiz falls at the first hurdle for me. The piece leading up to it refers to Lestah . 

Nope, if you are really from round here it is Lestoh

Blame lies at Kasabian for that.