City of Leicester
Agnes Archer Evans
(nee Kilgour)
1851-1924
Pioneering teacher of girls education,
along with Anna Chrysogon Beale, at
Belmont House School 1882-1893
Founding member & treasurer of
the Leicester and Leicestershire . . . — — Map (db m125123) HM
At The Centre Of Town Life
The Church of All Saints is probably one of the six Leicester churches mentioned in the Domesday Book. It stands with its west end bordering High Cross Street, the main route from north to south through the town. . . . — — Map (db m252411) HM
Getting Together
In 1968 BBC Radio Leicester provided a regular programme called Getting Together for "people who had come to make their home in Leicester". Growth in the local Asian population soon saws the station launch Milan, a programme . . . — — Map (db m252396) HM
One of the First
BBC Radio Leicester was the first mainland local radio station in the UK. It began broadcasting at 12.45pm on Wednesday 8th November 1967. The station's studios and offices were on the eighth floor of Epic House on Charles . . . — — Map (db m252394) HM
Leicester and the Norman Conquest
Leicester's first castle was built on the orders of William the Conqueror soon after the Nonman conquest of England in 1066. It dominated ____ town of about 400 houses and controlled the river crossing, taking . . . — — Map (db m246937) HM
The Wigston Family and Leicester
Chantry House and Skeffington House
Two Tudor houses in the heart of modern Leicester
William Wigston’s Chantry House was added to the Newarke precinct around 1511. William Wigston was a wealthy Leicester wool . . . — — Map (db m125066) HM
Richard III’s Medieval Leicester
Church of the Annunciation
The Hawthorn Building of De Montfort University was built on the site of the former Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The church and the Richard III Story . . . — — Map (db m125067) HM
The Collegiate Church
Upon this site stood the important and beautiful Collegiate Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, which was founded in 1355-6 by Henry, First Duke of Lancaster and Fourth Lancastrian Earl of Leicester. When he enlarged his . . . — — Map (db m125046) HM
Dryad Collects the World
Harry Peach was a keen collector, and between 1907 and 1937 acquired nearly 3000 items of craftwork while travelling in Europe, Africa and Asia. He also collected objects through his many contacts with other craftwork . . . — — Map (db m252391) HM
Forum and basilica
Where you are standing now would once have been the administrative and commercial heart of Roman Leicester. Beneath your feet lie what remains of the Roman forum and basilica.
What would the forum and basilica have . . . — — Map (db m252404) HM
A Leicester Landmark Since The
Early 18th Century, The Globe
Has Been Owned By The Everard
Family From Victorian Times To
The Present Day.
The Pub Was Previously A Market
House And Was Used At The Hiring
Fairs By Farmers To Recruit . . . — — Map (db m125127) HM
Richard III’s Medieval Leicester
Guildhall
The Guildhall and the Richard III Story
The Guildhall dates back to medieval times and would have been a building of importance during the time of Richard III. The Great Hall, built in 1390, was a . . . — — Map (db m125128) HM
Changing Pasts
Jain Centre
Chapel to Temple
What we know today Samuel Leicester’s Jain Centre started life in 1863 as a Congregational Chapel (an Independent church). This area around Oxford Street was developed from the mid-19th Century and, . . . — — Map (db m125074) HM
19th century congregational chapel was converted during the 1980’s to a centre for devotees of Jainism, an ancient religion that teaches love to all living creatures. The building contains important examples of traditional Indian architecture . . . — — Map (db m125073) HM
You are standing at the south end of John of Gaunt's Cellar, outside a doorway, now bricked up. The cellar was an undercroft (basement) beneath the Castle's kitchen block which was set at some distance from the Great Hall because of the risk of . . . — — Map (db m253555) HM
The Leicester Automaton Clock
This is a reconstruction based on remains at All Saints' Church, Highcross Street, Leicester, supplemented by documentary evidence. The original carved wood quarter-jacks disappeared many years ago, but traditionally . . . — — Map (db m125129) HM
You are standing on the motte. This was a vast mound linked to a bailey (defensive enclosure) and with a wooden lower at the top -- Leicester's first castle. It was built around 1068, soon after the conquest of England by the Normans (1066). The . . . — — Map (db m246938) HM
This building, which dates from the 14th century, served as the main gateway to the Newarke. During the Civil War it was used as a magazine (or secure armaments store) hence its present name. as a regimental museum it continues to have military . . . — — Map (db m125041) HM
The Medieval origins of a modern city
Medieval Leicester lay within the old Roman walls. The town walls followed the lines of what are now Soar Lane, Sanvey Gate, Church Gate, Gallowtree Gate, Horsefair Street and Bath Lane in the west. . . . — — Map (db m125075) HM
Municipal
Technical & Art Schools
This Stone was Laid on the
30th Day of March 1896 by
Alderman Sir Thomas Wright Knt JP
Chairman of the Committee
Alderman Edward Wood JP
Mayor — — Map (db m125042) HM
Summoned by Bells: the Newarke College
About 1330, Henry, Earl of Lancaster founded a hospital to look after 50 elderly people. In 1353 his son, also Henry, extended the foundation as the College of St. Mary of the Annunciation in the Newarke . . . — — Map (db m252770) HM
Richard III’s Medieval Leicester
Newarke Gateway
The Newarke Gateway and the Richard III Story
After his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth, King Richard III’s corpse was brought back to Leicester and put on public display in the Newarke . . . — — Map (db m125065) HM
A Manufacturing Town
Portland and Hawthorn Buildings
Creating a skilled workforce for Leicester
The original purpose of the Hawthorn Building is shown on its entrance doors opposite Trinity House. The four panels by Percy Brown depicting art . . . — — Map (db m125069) HM
Ratae Corieltavorum
Leicester is an ancient settlement that existed long before the Romans invaded Brain in AD 43. It was under the Romans however that it really
prospered, developing into an important town known as Ratae Corieltavorum.
It . . . — — Map (db m252407) HM
This Plaque was Unveiled
by
HRH The Duke of Gloucester GCVO
on
24th May 1994
To Mark the Completion of the Restoration
Of Leicester Guildhall — — Map (db m125137) HM
Richard III
King of England
1483 1485
Born Fotheringham
A Good Lawmaker for the Ease and
Solace of the Common People
2 October 1452
Killed Bosworth
22 August 1485
Piteously Slain Fighting Manfully
In the Thickest Press of . . . — — Map (db m122781) HM
Lady Rolleston and the street boys of Leicester
Shaftesbury Hall was built c.1906 as the headquarters of the Leicester Poor Boys Summer Camp, a charity set up in 1897 by Lady Eliza and Sir John Rolleston. Lady Rolleston was concerned about . . . — — Map (db m252390) HM
Upstart Uprising
Shortly after Easter 1173, Henry "the Young King" rebelled against his father King Henry, bringing turmoil to the whole of the Plantagenet kingdom in Britain and France. Chief among young Henry's noble supporters was Robert . . . — — Map (db m246939) HM
This Stone was Laid on
the 17th of June 1927
by Her Grace
The Duchess of Atholl
D.B.E. LL.D. MP.
Parliamentary Secretary
to the Board of Education
Councillor Walter Oram
Chairman of Committee
Ald. Sir Jonathan North J.P. . . . — — Map (db m125070) HM
Thomas Cook
1808 — 1892
( side )
This Statue was Commissioned
By Leicester City Council
With Assistance From
British Railways Community Unit
And Thomas Cook (International) Ltd
Near to This Site In
Leicester’s . . . — — Map (db m125143) HM
Who was Thomas Cook?
Thomas Cook was the pioneer of popular tourism and founder of the international travel company Thomas Cook and Son. He was also a devout Baptist and Temperance (anti-alcohol) campaigner who died in Leicester in 1892. He is . . . — — Map (db m246940) HM
“When Men Yield Up
The Privilege of
Thinking, the Last
Shadow of Liberty
Quits the Horizon”
Thomas Paine, 1737-1809
The Upperton Road
Viaduct Redevelopment Scheme
Was Opened by
The Lead Member for Transportation
Councillor . . . — — Map (db m125071) HM
Simple Builds
Leicester was under Roman rule for over 350 years. Over this time the townscape continually-evolved around a regular grid of streets. The plots of land between these were built on for generations, with new buildings replacing . . . — — Map (db m252452) HM
The weather vane which surmounts the roof was restored during refurbisment works in 1993. A donation of £575 towards the cost was made by The Gild of Freeman of The City of Leicester. — — Map (db m125138) HM
The
Whipping
Toms
On this spot stood the Whipping Toms, who, on Shrove Tuesday, in accordance with the ancient custom, armed themselves with wagon whips and flogged anyone who entered the precincts of the Newarke. The sport was abolished by Act . . . — — Map (db m125044) HM
