Grid reference SK5804
near to Leicester, England
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Highcross Street in Leicester
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Humberstone Gate in Leicester
With the Haymarket Shopping Centre on the left.
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Leicester - City Centre
A view of Causeway Lane sporting some of its very modern architecture, including a side elevation of the new High Cross shopping centre that was opened in 2011. This shot was taken from a street corner opposite the main entrance to... (more)
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Belvoir Street
Viewed from the junction with Bowling Green Street. Two Leicester City Transport Metro-Scania buses queue at the lights along with various examples of 1970's motor cars.
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Window of Dereliction, Black Friars, Leicester
This picture was taken very close to the former site of The Central Station. Some of the original Iron Bridges remain, although the station was closed in 1967.
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Humberstone Gate 1995
Note the old Lewises department store in the background awaiting its fate, now all these stores have gone except the original store in Liverpool. The Midland Fox bus company is also now a distant memory.
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Leicester Central Station
Taken in Great Central Street, this photo shows the outside of Leicester Central Station on the last day of passenger services, ie Saturday 3rd May, 1969. The building remains to this day. Its postcode is LE1 4ND.
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The Friary, Hotel Street
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Guildhall - East Wing
The 15th C east wing, this room was converted to three floors in the mid 16th C. This was made the mayor's room. In 1637 the room was overhauled in Oak.
SK5804 : Leicester the Guildhall... ( more)
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Leicester Town Hall By Night
This building wouldn't look out of place in an Eastern European city.
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The Black Boy, Leicester
A good example of a back street city pub, on the corner of Chatham Street and Albion Street.
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Former Victoria Coffee House, Granby Street, Leicester
By Edward Burgess, 1887-88, and, wrote Pevsner, the "magnum opus of the Leicester Coffee and Cocoa House Company". A typically festive roofline has turrets linked to a central larger turret and dormers squeezed into every gap.... (more)
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