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Haymarket Shopping Centre. 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 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 ...
Highcross Leicester is a shopping centre in Leicester, England. It was opened as The Shires in 1991 to supplement the Haymarket Shopping Centre , also since re-developed. It was built on a central location within the city centre on Eastgates and High Street.
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).
The Grand Hotel. The Grand Hotel Leicester is a Grade II listed [1] historic hotel on Granby Street in the city centre of Leicester, England.. It was designed by Cecil Ogden and Amos Hall [2] and built between 1897–98 by Orson Wright. [3]
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]
The bus station was developed at a proposed cost of £2m in mid-1994, coinciding with a major refurbishment of the adjacent Haymarket Shopping Centre complex. [1] From January 2015 the bus station was closed for redevelopment to double the size, the new bus station opened during May 2016.
The Haymarket Theatre was opened by Sir Ralph Richardson and the opening season started with The Recruiting Officer on 17 October 1973, Economic Necessity on 24 October and Cabaret on 21 November. Leicester City Council purchased a 99-year lease of the theatre in 1974. Between 1974 and 2007 the theatre was operated by The Leicester Theatre Trust.