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The Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower is a major landmark and popular meeting point in Leicester, England. It is located roughly in the middle of the area inside the ring-road, and is at the point where five major streets meet; Gallowtree Gate, Humberstone Gate (A47), Haymarket (A607), Church Gate (A6) and Eastgates (A47).
In late 2019, work started on a link road that would improve access between the two bus stations and allow for more pedestrianisation around the clock tower area. [5] Leicester London Road is now the only railway station in the city centre, after the closure of Leicester Belgrave Road and Leicester Central in the 1960s.
A dispersal order has been put in place after a disturbance in Leicester city centre. Police said about 100 people gathered at the Clock Tower in East Gates at 15:30 GMT on Friday, causing a ...
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
The Haymarket Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in the city centre of Leicester, England. It was opened on 4 June 1973 [2] as part of the Haymarket Centre and was the country's second shopping centre after the Bull Ring, Birmingham. [3] It is located east of and adjacent to the Clock Tower. [4]
Leicester (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər / ⓘ LES-tər) [7] is a city, unitary authority area, unparished area and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a population of 373,399 in 2022. [4]
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The design, which made extensive use of Ketton stone, included a clock tower with cupola which is 44 metres (144 ft) high, [6] containing a clock by E. T. Loseby of Leicester and five bells by Mears & Stainbank. [7] The building was extended in 1910 and again in 1924. [4]