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Museum in 1977, in former Andrew Carnegie Library. Moira Furnace: Moira: Industry: 19th-century iron-making blast furnace, with short boat rides on the restored canal. National Gas Museum Leicester: Leicester: Industry: Gas industry museum, on production and supply of gas, and gas related artifacts and domestic appliances. National Space Centre ...
The University of Leicester (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər / ⓘ LEST-ər) is a public research university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park . The university's predecessor, University College, Leicester , gained university status in 1957.
The building comprises three distinct elements: an 18-storey tower block containing 270 offices and tutorial rooms; a low-rise building, known within the University as the 'Attenborough Seminar Block', containing seminar rooms and computing facilities; and an underground area housing two large lecture theatres and the University Film Theatre.
The Leicester Museum & Art Gallery (until 2020, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery) is a museum on New Walk in Leicester, England, not far from the city centre. [1] It opened in 1849 as one of the first public museums in the United Kingdom. [2] Leicester Museum & Art Gallery contains displays of science, history and art, both international and local.
The museum also houses a 1950s Leicester street scene modelled in Wharf Street with a number of model shops, as well as an exhibition of toys from Tudor times to the present. [ 1 ] Other collections relate to Leicester's industrial and hosiery industry, such as Corah's and Wolsey, major clothing firms in Leicester.
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The Abbey Pumping Station is a museum of science and technology in Leicester, England, on Corporation Road, next to the National Space Centre.With four working steam-powered beam engines from its time as a sewage pumping station, it also houses exhibits for transport, public health, light and optics, toys and civil engineering.
Chris Allen, British sociologist and associate professor at the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester; Penelope Allison, Professor of Archaeology; Lyman Andrews, American Studies; Isobel Armstrong, scholar of nineteenth-century poetry and women's writing; Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge