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It is surrounded by Charles Street (southwest) and Church Street (northwest), Colton Street and Orton Square (northeast), and St George's Way, designated the A594, Leicester's inner ring road (southeast). [4] The main entrance is to the south. The first headquarters of the Leicester Borough Police from 1836 was in the medieval Leicester ...
King Richard III Visitor Centre is a museum in Leicester, England that showcases the life of King Richard III and the story of the discovery, exhumation, and reburial of his remains in 2012–2015. For a long time, the burial place of Richard III was uncertain, although the site of his burial was assumed to be in a Leicester car park.
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 ...
Map of Leicester Corporation Tramways Tram number 76, held at the National Tramway Museum in Crich. The first tramways in Leicester started horse-pulled operation in 1874, by the Leicester Tramways Company. The first route was from the Clock Tower to Belgrave. This was soon followed by lines to West Humberstone and to Victoria Park, which ...
A further large extension opened in 2008, when the entire centre was renamed Highcross Leicester. Highcross Leicester contains over 100 shops, with a range of both large and smaller units, including branches of the department stores John Lewis & Partners. There are also 40 restaurants and cafés, a Showcase Cinema de Lux and two large car parks.
Leicester Drama Society was formed in 1922 and occupied the upper floor of the old Rechabite Chapel on Dover Street, Leicester. The society purchased the building for £14,000 in 1932, renaming the building The Little Theatre. In 1955 parts of the theatre had to be rebuilt due to a fire. [1]
The GNP&BR opened the station on 15 December 1906 as Dover Street. [25] As with most of the other GNP&BR stations, the station building, on the east side of Dover Street, was designed by Leslie Green. [26] It featured the company's standard red glazed terracotta facade with wide semi-circular arches at first-floor level. Platform and passageway ...
Opened as Dover Street; [17] renamed 18 September 1933. [150] Interchange with Jubilee and Victoria lines map 19: Hyde Park Corner: map 20: Knightsbridge: map 21: South Kensington: 1 October 1868 [55] Piccadilly line services began on 8 January 1907; [55] interchange with Circle and District lines map 22: Gloucester Road