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The Magazine Gateway (aka The Magazine and also called Newarke Gateway) is a Grade I listed building in Leicester. Now a solitary landmark alongside Leicester ringroad, it was originally the main gateway of a walled enclosure built around 1400, giving access to the religious precinct of The Newarke. The vaulted archway was open to traffic until ...
English: Southfields Branch Library, Saffron Lane, Leicester, seen from the southwest. Designed by the same architects as the St Barnabas Branch Library. Southfield Library is nicknamed the Pork Pie Library. Part of the building was originally a child welfare clinic.
Leicestershire (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / ⓘ LEST-ər-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, and Staffordshire to the west.
Library websites can offer: [1] Interaction with the library catalog. An Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) provides the ability log into a library account to renew or request items. Gateway to electronic resources. Libraries may organize the various periodical indexes, electronic reference collections, and other databases they subscribe to.
The Guildhall library in England, which includes the New Testament in Greek from the 15th century, was established in 1632, when the town library was moved into the east wing of the building. [8] Leicester's first police force had its station in the Guildhall from 1836. [8] The Corporation moved to the new Leicester Town Hall in 1876. Apart ...
A library portal is an interface to access library resources and services through a single access and management point for users: for example, by combining the circulation and catalog functions of an integrated library system (ILS) with additional tools and facilities.
The stream running through Lea Meadows has white-clawed crayfish and brook lampreys, both of which are legally protected. [1] It is part of Ulverscroft Valley.. Leicestershire is a county in the East Midlands of England with an area of 833 square miles (2,160 km 2), [2] and a population according to the 2011 census of 980,000. [3]
In 2012 the theatre won Best Venue in Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival Awards. [3] In 2012 it was announced that The Little Theatre would be expanding. The expansion would result in 2 new rehearsal rooms, new studio, new workshop, new box office and foyer as well as providing better disabled access. The build requires the theatre to raise £2 ...