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Excellent! Thank you. I have always known of Temple Bar and was surprised to find it in London, when you said that it was re-erected in 2005, after I had left the city. Wonderful. I shall have to pay it a visit.

Great video! Keep up the good work.

Thank you that was a very nice little video. Interesting to see that they moved it a couple of times., it’s a pity they didn’t move the Euston arch instead of just demolishing it I believe in the 50s, I wish you a very happy New Year😊

This is boring old shit.

Really interesting glad to see it. As I lived in star lane, I didn't like the house at all or the street, but it's very much marks a time for me going to school

I was born and raised in Leicester. It was vibrant and had character with an industrial mix. Now, it has been completely ruined by destroying old buildings, replacing them with inappropriate modern monstrosities, and a once proud city turned into a soulless shit hole.

Cornwall is a magical place.

Thanks for this. I moved to Leicester in 1987 for a Physics degree at the University. I still live here and it's nice to be reminded of how it used to be. Overall it is an odd city. Pleasant enough but pretty nondescript. The Richard III discovery has helped pep things up. The local accent is bloody awful.

I can assure you that the traffic was way better in 1990 , even with tolls. Today on the South side it is a total nightmare, one incident , and the whole area is gridlocked for miles away from the crossing ,even off the M25.

Looked this up several years ago when visiting Devon, by chance a restoration historian who was leaving and was impressed I came to see this, and stayed and conducted a private tour and i made a generous donation..

I stumbled across this building by accident. Sadly it was closed. Thanks to you I will be going back to look inside.

I thought London was proud of not being riddled with high buildings. I've only taken notice of the changes from a distance. But even if we concede that some of those structures carry a bit of architectoral finesse, it looks awful, crammed, overloaded.

That's one for a visit on my classic motorcycle next year. Nice!

Perfect weather for my taste. We get many days like this in Appalachia, but nothing at all to see like those old stone walls. Thank you!

Very interesting, I’ve always thought it would be lovely to be able to just go back in time to see what the building really did look like 👍 in itshay day

Someone should add the Bladerunner music.

Spent many a night in that old place. That painting of the place is hanging in pickfords house Ashbourne Rd Derby.

probably inhabited occasionally over time.

It certainly is a beautiful old building, do you know if it was damaged in the war

Great video

Used to visit often with my kids, early 90s when it was still a museum to the Leicester regiment. Great place to visit, the Newark house museum is just around the corner and still open. The kids loved all the Daniel Lambert exhibits and the gardens are beautiful.

I can’t decide whether selling this off to de Montfort uni was a good move or not. DMU seems to do what it wants in the city (or gets its way with the planners) and they simply forced the museum out, closed the building and put a gate on it to stop any access. While it’s an interesting building (from the historical point of view) it was really worth a visit when it was the regimental museum. Descending the spiral staircase is not for the faint hearted!

1:38 - not quite true. Trinity Hospital was part of The Newarke endowment and it’s still a retirement home just the other side of Newarke Bridge.

Looking up Silver Street at the old Il Rondo building that faced the Winston's pub. I was a DJ at the old Il Rondo building when it was called Buzby (night club) and Beehive (Pub). I had a lot of fun there before I left to live in Scandinavia.❄☃

Visited the Magazine many times when it was the museum. The bowl you referred to used to have a gargoyle spout on the outside. Wonder what happened to that?

I can remember it from years ago, and the subways.

Lived in Leicester for nearly 40 years now. The Magazine has always seemed to me to be a really odd, out of place thing. Thanks for a bit of back story. I figured that its name came from the Civil War. I wish that there was more of old Leicester still here. I think a lot has been lost.

The boot and shoe factory, I think, belonged to the co-op. The Cattle Market was a terrible loss. On market days farmers from all over the County would drive their lorries and leave them all along Welford Road over the railway bridge. The market itself had its own railway sidings which became redundant after the Beeching cuts. Next to the market were two abattoirs and local butchers could buy an animal and pick up the carcass a day or two later. And of course the sheep production led to wool which led to knitting and dyeing. The leather wholesaler was where it was because nearby was the wholesale fruit and veg market and a tannery. The tannery got its hides from the abattoirs next to the cattle market. Everything worked more or less harmoniously. The demand for leather in Leicester was very high because of shoe making. At one time Leicester was the shoe capital of the world with the British Shoe Corporation producing millions and others like Brevit Shoes exporting most of its production. Sadly, it's mostly gone along with socks and stockings, knitwear, and machinery companies like British Shoe, Mellor Bromley, Stibbe etc. The old warehouses shown ( converted to housing) are a tiny fraction of what was once there. Even the LMS station shown is a shadow of what it was. There used to be 4 lines running through it and a large marshalling yard behind with BRS lorries loading and unloading freight. Leicester also had another two railway stations doing similar things. Leicester was once one of the richest towns in England. Even at the time of the Civil War when Prince Rupert demanded £5000 from the burghers of Leicester it was very rich. Now it's finished..epitomised by the street beggars in the 'pedestrianised' city centre.

The statue at the beginning of the video in what used to be called Welford Place is of John Biggs. Although much older, it was erected there in the late 1960 despite most people at the time having no idea who he was !

drove past it on saturday and wondered if it was from the castle

Hope to visit sometime

whoever dosent know it moved to springvale and at the time currys arrived pc world halfords mfi land of leather and funiture village were the stores at springvale

Lived in Croydon all my life

Very good, thank you very much excellent little video, I bet there’s many locals don’t even know that is a park, the council is not exactly publicising it very well with that little poster

fascinating stuff 😯 I didn’t know about the St Blaise and wool connection. I am in Croydon and my dad (75) remembers older men in his youth telling him about how they used to drive the sheep up certain roads here.

Been here once it was great

Thank you

Excellent video, thank you. Well, put together.

Great video, I learnt a lot, thank you 😊

What a lot of ugly tat for shopfronts! When did it ever appear more attractive and fitted to the building ?

I really enjoyed that! I need to go and check this out.

what a fantastic idea i always wish I took more photos. Its amusing how so many good chinese takeaways never seem to get renovated. I dont think my local one had so much as a lick of paint from its opening in 1978 & its eventual permanent closure in the 2020 lockdown.

Thank you so much for this - the 97 photos are exactly how I remember Croydon. I'm delighted that the Clock tower remains as it was.

I used to work in Heathcock Court - very atmospheric in the evenings.

lived there for twenty years moved out 2002 returned this year ....what a dump

I grew up and lived in Orpington until 2007. This brought back some amazing memories. Lingfields sweet shop was amazing. I used to get a lot my video games from Chips. They were a great bunch of lads.

I met many famous stars on cruises.

Much appreciated. Thanks

Thanks again.

Thanks "me duck" 😀 - wonderful piece of history of the City Centre. Cheers