My home town - 4000 years of history...

[Munchaab]

Before my emergency house move, this is where I lived, just off the London road the other side from Vicky Park...

[DaJavoo]

So very much history!  Thanks for sharing, Munch!

[Munchaab]

Aptly timed, just before "Remembrance Sunday" (Armistice day is 11th November, we hold ceremonies on the Sunday) A WWI hero from Leicester:

[DaJavoo]

Aptly timed, just before "Remembrance Sunday" (Armistice day is 11th November, we hold ceremonies on the Sunday) A WWI hero from Leicester:

Totally astonishing...and humbling.

Thanks for sharing this one, @Munchaab .

The Great War was imo, the last of the historical wars before technology made things different.  It was a damned meat grinder.

[Munchaab]

My parents used to take us to the Abbey Park many Sundays as kids, we'd feed the ducks, paddle in the weir, run along the foundations of the ruins, hide in the alcoves of the fortruss like walls and eat picnics - was fantastic (except the geese - don't fuck with the geese of Abbey Park, evil fucks will eat you)...

Cardinal Wolsey was (killed, suicided) unalived in Leicester on his way to face treason charges by Henry VIII, said to be buried in the grounds here but no one knows where, monument seems to have moved since I was a kid, but was nearer the wall not far inside the main gates when I was small...

The flood relief works that are mentioned in the video actually canalised parts of the river Soar (which became part of the Grand Union Canal - @DaJavoo will be familiar) and created Bede Island (near me now) and Frog Island (up river a mile or so) where Richard III was buried before being found in 2012 and re-interred at Leicester Cathedral...

[DaJavoo]

Good Grief ~ that Abbey sounds like it was more country club than church. 

And, yeah ~ the Grand Union is the grand daddy of canals.

[Munchaab]

I've always said Beaumont Leys was a shit-pit - today I found out, that is LITERALLY what it was - a massive open face sewage dump...

Vindication for me and all my schoolmates (our rival school, just up the Anstey Lane, was "Beaumont Ley's") - another synchronistic happening for me - I was born and raised in Thurmaston, where the crisps came from (Walkers' (UK)/Lays (International)). Walkers factory is now in Beaumont Leys (got too big for the site in my home village) and that site was also home to Murphy's, which my Dad worked at, the whole reason (that job) he, my mum and infant older brother came to Leicester at all...

[DaJavoo]

[Wingsprint]

#16. Leicester, England, 1950s. When coal was very much the number one energy source



30 Historical Photos That Take You Back in Time and Reveal the Untold Stories of the Past - 121Clicks.com

[Troller Durden]

Cool Munch, I love historical connections to places. My other half is from Apulum, the Roman capital of Dacia, presently Alba Iulia, Romania.

The only places like this in the USA are the Native sites. I really love how you can peer back in time, and wonder over what it was like. I would love to travel Europe again backpack style to soak in so much history.