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The station featured in the Midland Counties Railway Companion of 1840 The façade as seen from London Road in 1856. The first station on the site opened on 5 May 1840. It was originally known simply as Leicester, becoming Leicester Campbell Street on 1 June 1867, and Leicester London Road from 12 June 1892. [2]
The building, which was designed by John Johnson in the Greek Revival style, was completed in 1800. [2] It was originally commissioned as Leicester's first hotel but the developer did have enough resources to complete it as such and, in 1799, sold it to a consortium led by the Duke of Rutland, who raised by public subscription the sum of £3,300 still needed to complete it. [2]
During December 2020, Leicester City Council announced the bus station would close from 31 December [2] [3] [4] for around 18 months to allow for a total redevelopment of the bus station and surrounding roads. St Margaret's is the first carbon neutral bus station in the United Kingdom.
The hotel has always been considered one of Leicester's most prestigious, [5] but arguably its heyday was during Victorian times. The hotel is in an area designated as a Heritage Action Zone, allowing the securing of a grant from Historic England in 2022 to return the hotel entrance and frontage shops to their original Victorian appearance. [6]
Leicester City Centre is Leicester's historical commercial, cultural and transport hub and is home to its central business district. Its inner core is roughly delineated by the A594, Leicester's inner ring road, although the various central campuses of the University of Leicester, De Montfort University and Leicester College are adjacent to the inner ring road and could be considered to be a ...
The street houses Leicester City Council and the Grand Hotel, built in 1898, [1] the Turkey Cafe, and was once home to a temperance hall. [ 2 ] From 1901 to 1949, electric lines of two-track trams ran along Granby Street towards the Clock Tower and the train station towards Stoneygate . [ 3 ]
Mother-of-two Gurpreet, from Eyres Monsell, welcomed son Nihal at 03:27, weighing 6lb 3oz (2.87kg) at Leicester Royal Infirmary. It was an early arrival - he had been due on 4 January..
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