Videos from the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) at the University of Leicester. EMOHA is based in the Centre for Urban History and the videos on the channel broadly fall into the following themes: oral history, urban history, lectures and conferences, videos about the Centre for Urban History.
Whilst a central route around Leicester is needed what has been done has in many ways ruined what the city could have been. Much of it cut through historic parts of Leicester and divided areas into an incoherent jumble. It was done with every consideration for a driver trying to get through or around the city and none whatsoever for the people and communities that lived there. It has been so complete in it's destruction that I don't think most people even realise what an act of vandalism most of it is. Perhaps it would have been better not to have it at all and instead rely on the outer ring. Leicester is a very small city and doesn't really warrant the in some places 6 lane inner ring road. No wonder that people think Leicester is an awful place when it has been so thoroughly vandalised by city planners, who as you pointed out at the beginning of the video acted piecemeal and with no coherent idea of what the finished article should or would look like. The people of Leicester have been utterly let down by it's leaders for over 50 years and it is difficult to see how it can ever be brought up to what it once had the potential to be
My dad is on the photo at 1:07 second in from the left kneeling ,he was with Reme and went out on the empire pride with 29 brigade. He never spoke much about what he saw and happened.
All very familiar I used to walk and cycle much of this route on pleasant summer days. I didn't know the arboretum near Evington was a prisoner of war camp. However I can just remember when it was just a field. It's some time since visiting Gaulby, it used to have a simple gravity powered clock with an hour hand and no minutes. It was driven by a rock dangling on a rope wrapped around a cylinder near the top of the tower. No idea if that is still the case.
Cost over a million pounds to demolish , after Labour council hadnt maintained it for years , just like the iconic iron train bridge nr fosse rd south !! 😡, another part of our history wiped out .
Knocked down cus it was an convenience to the local Indian business s and there ll be more area for Indian n Pakistani celebrations etc.etc. You look after us n we ll vote for u in the next election 🧐, keep u in power .scratch our back we ll scratch urs . Another example of our past history bn wiped away by Labour 🤔🤬
that's what happens when you overcrowd a city, you have to build and build, destroying the heritage of the city in the process, but it's only english heritage so why would leicester council care
Great to see the Late John Douglas. John was a great example of Corby. Coming from hard Conditions in Scotland. That generation came to Corby with a good work ethic, honesty and a determination for a better life.
I was a National Serviceman in Malaya in the late 50, and was trained by NCOs who had served in Korea. Great men! You guys that served in Korea were brilliant! You have my greatest admiration and respect.
My father was in the RNZASC... Brian (Hori) Hawthorn, Attached from 'Kiwi Section' 28th Field Regiment, Royal Engineers, to Plant Troop. He told me he and 3 others, Bruce Harkness, Don Agnue, & Bill Myles, were with the Canadians. Old man died in 2010. He did tell me a story once, about some cheeky bloody Aussies, putting a big red tail, on the white kiwi, at Kiwi Hill, Church. He used to watch MASH on TV, and laughed like crazy! When asked about it? He stated that's what it was really like most of the time. Seems he was a bit of a rogue over there, so to speak. I believe he did time in SDC. Not sure why, but i have my suspicions, thanks to a family friend who was in the 15th Field Reg RNZ Artillery.... He also told me he used to clear landmines for prisoner snatches, and put them back afterwards, as well as some transport duties. Not much else was ever said about his time in Korea, except he volunteered, that it stunk, it was either hot, or freezing cold, and the korean women were some of the ugliest women he'd ever seen. O.o?
Place for plastic Scots who speak more like Londoners bulldoze the lot the Corby plastic Scots vote Tory same party ripped the heart out of that town Corby is British not one true Scots left
Thanks for that; its my old stamping ground, a lot of school-mates came from the villages. But on a bicycle the villages have a different flavour that is sadly missed in a speeded up video.
It was tolerable until it got really flooded with immigrants after Tony the Traitor was elected. Now it's not a place most want to be who were born there
Had my first sexual experience with a girl from there, we went up to the cathedral grave yard, 1972. The nasty Malcom arcade replaced the Opera House Theatre
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had to laugh et the beginning, as it was talking about the fish and quart pub whilst showing, what i knew, as brannigans, fish and quart was on the corner
Hugely fond and emotional memories for me.... I visited there with my mum when I was 11 years old -- when it closed. Huge loss for Leicester. I was amazed by the pneumatic tube system for transporting money from the shop floor. My mum did not like to think of shopping there because it was only for 'posh people' and she considered it expensive. But she liked the produce and it was always bustling and crowded.
I came to Leicester in 2016. I am in this market every day. I had no idea it used to be completely different there. A while before I lived in Leicester
Probably the most interesting carbuncle Leicester has ever had. I had a fondness for it, and I did find it to be sometimes a strangely beautiful building. At least back in the days before it became very rundown. The way that sunlight hit those angles, and gave a stark contrast of some areas of the red brick glowing in daylight and others in shadow is something etched in my memory. I have a love of Brutalism. And although this building doesn't fit nicely into that category, there were certainly Brutalist aspects about it. I think by 2014, it did need to come down. But we did lose a significant portion of the overall market, with its demise. Green Dragon Square is somewhat pleasant to look at, a bit dodgy to walk through, and has potential which has not yet really been tapped into. I think I'd like to see some freestanding stalls emerge on a more ongoing basis, bring a bit of life to it. I'm keen to see the council carry out the proposed demolition of those empty shops, where Priceless Shoes used to be. It's one of the best ideas of the Reconnecting Leicester project, and will really make a good through route from St Martins, Cank Street, right through to the Town Hall. It'll help to make all that area feel part of the city centre once again, instead of just a dull backend far away from the hip and happening High Cross Centre. A lot as improved already, but that could really tie the whole thing in.
Wow, this is really quite an amazing documentation of the development of Bede Island. I remember the construction of the whole area very well, but had kind of overlooked how vast the development was. And when you factor in the other changes in the surrounding area, including the more recent ones such as the new DMU buildings, the redevelopment of the Liberty building, the removal of the Upperton Road bridge, the tragic demise of the Bowstring bridge, the new Tesco supermarket where MFI used to be, even as far out as the changes made around the Magazine, that whole end of the city has changed so much. And yet it somehow retains familiarity. Incredible to be reminded of how it all used to be.
Thank you to all the men interviewed in this for sharing the memories of their experiences in Korea, as painful as some of them appeared. Respect to you all.
How many times did Howlin' Wolf play the Rondo? When I saw him play there, it wasn't the Black Cat Blues Band that accompanied him, it was Steamhammer.
I've seen a few fantastic pictures of bucolic sceneries with sheep, hedges and pastures from Leicestershire and also from Derbyshire that made me want to visit these counties, but the few youtube vids I've seen so far failed to intrigue me. I've also seen some lovely English landscapes in the Fast Show. No idea where they were shot! They shot a lot in Yorkshire I read, but probably not everything.
