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In 1972, he joined Leicester Lions and spent four years with the Midlands club. In 1974, he won the first of three World Team Cups with the England national speedway team [6] and in 1975, he won the London Riders' Championship in 1975, despite being in his fourth and final season with Leicester. He recorded an average of 10.45 in his last ...
High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street (now the A5) and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England.A naturally strategic high point, High Cross was "the central cross roads" of Anglo-Saxon and Roman Britain. [1]
First RFU Knock-out Cup match: Nottingham 10–3 Leicester, Ireland Avenue, 21 November 1971 First Courage League match: Leicester 24–13 Bath , Welford Road , 12 September 1987 First European Cup match: Leinster 10–27 Leicester , Donnybrook , 16 October 1996
A Centon (own-brand) tripod purchased from Jessops in the mid-1990s. Frank Jessop founded Jessop of Leicester in 1935, as a specialist photographic retailer. The company expanded to major towns and cities. [citation needed] Jessop later used the Centon name as an own brand [7] for a range of photographic and related goods sold through its shops.
The track and field championships have been held every year since 1925 (except for 1940–1945 due to World War II), are the 4th largest athletics event in the world and since 2003 have been held at the major athletics venues of Birmingham Alexander Stadium, Sportscity, Manchester,Gateshead International Stadium and former Sheffield Don Valley Stadium.
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on ...
Thomas Fielding Johnson (worsted spinner, philanthropist, founding benefactor of Leicester University) William Inman (shipping company owner) Frank Jessop (In 1935 founded The Jessop Group Limited, photographic retailers and suppliers. "Jessops of Leicester") Harry Peach (furniture manufacturer and social campaigner) Henry Walker (founder of ...
The son of Leicester City FC’s former chair has hit out at the manufacturer of a “death trap” helicopter that crashed and killed his father. Five people died when the Leonardo AW169 ...