FuriousFox46 Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 Juices are flowing at the minute. Yet another blog post open to your scrutiny. http://thechriswhitingshow.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/leicester-englands-forgotten-city/
Rincewind Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 Very good. I would leave out the negative bits then it would be a retty good apraisal of Leicester. I have an article somewhere about some buildings up London Road. Top Hat Alley it used to be called and there are figures of heads to represent Leicester's first Private Detective. I'm sure you'd find something if you Googled. If you enjoy writing your blogs can I suggest you send a link of your blog to John Coster of Citizens Eye. He'd be interested in anything to do with Leicester including events happening and social issues. Good luck in what you do. Here is my effort. http://quill2ink2paper.weebly.com/articles.html
FoxesAreBlue Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 Nice but needs a proof read. For example, I didn't know the Leicester Tigers were the oldest basketball team
Hollism Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 The largest comedy festival in the UK!? I'll have to assume that was supposed to a) say England, or b) Edinburgh is classed as an arts festival, not comedy. A nice post, does need to be proof read as mentioned, but I enjoyed it all the same. Couple of things in there I didn't know too.
MooseBreath Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 Are good curries the only good thing about immigrants?
Zingari Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 i enjoyed that , very good but you forgot to mention Showaddywaddy though Leicester was recently declared the birthplace of modern standard English by some language experts
FuriousFox46 Posted 20 July 2013 Author Posted 20 July 2013 Are good curries the only good thing about immigrants? Really? Like I was suggesting that. I celebrate Leicester's multiculturalism plenty in the post.. i enjoyed that , very good but you forgot to mention Showaddywaddy though Leicester was recently declared the birthplace of modern standard English by some language experts Oh yeah! I may have to include that too! Nice but needs a proof read. For example, I didn't know the Leicester Tigers were the oldest basketball team I know, I fall in to the habit of writing late at night and I'm too tired to proof read then I never bother. It's quite bad really.
MooseBreath Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 I celebrate Leicester's multiculturalism plenty in the post.. Where?
DennisNedry Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 Are good curries the only good thing about immigrants? Don't forget the endless shitty jewellery shops.
davieG Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 I've not forgotten how much nicer it used to be, cleaner, more prosperous and architecturally superior.
Zingari Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 c'mon now davie , I know those royalists thugs did an awful lot of damage to the city during the English civil war but we can't turn the clock back.
davieG Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 c'mon now davie , I know those royalists thugs did an awful lot of damage to the city during the English civil war but we can't turn the clock back. I'm no royalist and judging from the national and local party dominated political scene civil wars are still going on.
Zingari Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 I'm no royalist and judging from the national and local party dominated political scene civil wars are still going on. There does seem to be simmering tensions on the streets once again. I wouldn't be surprised to see more scenes like we saw in the early 80's , I was joking of course earlier , who /what do you blame for the city's downturn? Do you think Konrad Smigelski deserves a lot of the blame ?
davieG Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 There does seem to be simmering tensions on the streets once again. I wouldn't be surprised to see more scenes like we saw in the early 80's , I was joking of course earlier , who /what do you blame for the city's downturn? Do you think Konrad Smigelski deserves a lot of the blame ? I don't think you can blame any individual for the architectural destruction I think it was a post war cultural renaissance where minimalism and whiteness were the contemporary rage. Maybe some of the elder councillors and architects should have made more of a stand to protect the good stuff. The really sad thing is we haven't really learned from it and still seem content to demolish or let fall into disrepair attractive historical buildings and to replace them with bland grey edifices. As for the cleanliness we live in a 'I don't give a fook about anyone else' and someone else will eventually pick up my crap.
Kitchandro Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 Good read. You left out the DNA evidence thing though, that's my favourite. You can forget CSI without us And pork pies. Pork pies are fantastic.
Jimothy Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 Also forgot Simon De Montfort set up the first directly elected parliament, and Lady Jane Grey, Queen for 9 days and the first female monarch, being born at Bradgate Park,
Smudge Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 "In spite of it’s lack of coal and iron, Leicester began it’s expansion and industrialisation in the 1700s." The coalfields in the North West of Leicestershire have been mined since medieval times, there was plenty of coal for the times. Leicester and the county founded it's wealth on hosiery and boot making. The former supported by sheep farming throughout the county. The cottage industry of framework knitters were drawn to Leicester, Hinckley and Earl Shilton during the mid 1800's as factories were being built using faster knitting machines. Many framework knitters who couldn't survive the competition, also emigrated to the United States, particulary to Germantown near Philadelphia. The Ironworks at Asfordby near Melton, was operating through the 19th century until it closed in 1961.
Zingari Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 The coalfields in the North West of Leicestershire have been mined since medieval times, there was plenty of coal for the times. Leicester and the county founded it's wealth on hosiery and boot making. The former supported by sheep farming throughout the county. The cottage industry of framework knitters were drawn to Leicester and Hinckley and Earl Shilton during the mid 1800's as factories were being built using faster knitting machines. Many framework knitters who couldn't survive the competition, also emigrated to the United States, particulary to Germantown near Philadelphia. The Ironworks at Asfordby near Melton, was operating through the 19th century until it closed in 1961. So that's how Coalville got its name? I thought I remembered seeing coal trains coming through glenfield tunnel The very first holiday package tour was from Leicester to Loughborough , organised by Thomas Cook
Smudge Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 So that's how Coalville got its name? I thought I remembered seeing coal trains coming through glenfield tunnel The very first holiday package tour was from Leicester to Loughborough , organised by Thomas Cook You daft bugger you can't see coal in a tunnel
Zingari Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 Did you not know that Zingari?? Yes I was joking , one of my uncles worked at Merrylees , so I was well aware it was a coal mining area . The name Coalville doesn't leave much scope to guess what it was named for
Zingari Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 You daft bugger you can't see coal in a tunnel you're right i didn't see the coal , but i remember all the housewives moaning about the soot being blown about on washday , it didn't half put them in a bad mood . you kept out of their way those days
Raw Dykes Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 I'm not sure about the Mars in Ashby de la Zouch bit. There are KP and McVitie's factories there, though.
Zingari Posted 20 July 2013 Posted 20 July 2013 I'm not sure about the Mars in Ashby de la Zouch bit. There are KP and McVitie's factories there, though. Yes i think Slough is where Mars are made . you might need to do some more research furious fox
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