Leicester Chronicler

Belgrave Cemetery	Care and conservation where a past community sleeps	Leicester in 1948	A snapshot of Leicester and its county following the war years
Clocktower in historic images	Images of Leicester's Clocktower	Leicester in 1969	A city and its culture on the brink of major change
Barradale	Leicester's fine `arts and crafts' architect	Leicestershire at War	Not on the front line, but Leicestershire played its part
Billesdon	A peaceful Leicestershire village with a long history	Leicestershire Images	A somewhat self-indulgent selection of images of the county
Clara Collet	The woman who was mentor and role model to Leicester girls	Leicestershire churches	Images of Leicestershire parish churches
Corah No Encore	The rise and fall of Leicester's greatest textile name	Magic Polish Company	One man's reminiscences of a unique Leicester company
De Montfort Hall Dazzler	The last surviving example of a Taylor Leicester-built concert organ	Sam Torr's Hippodrome	The sad story of showman Sam Torr, his dreams and aspirations
Elmer Keene	Leicestershire's little-known landscape and marine artist	Peck's View	Francis Peck's intriguing engraving of Bow Bridge and St Nicholas Church
Faith Foundations	The men of faith who found sanctuary in Leicestershire	Richard III	No other English monarch is regarded locally with such emotion
Freemen of South Field	How the buildings that occupy this ancient field reflect its history	Rutland Street	Lift up your eyes - and discover the history of every street
Galway Bay	The gentle Leicester prison physician and his worldwide hit	Man of the Mists	The remarkable story of the Leicestershire-born psychic
Granby Halls	The history of a lost venue that was a meeting place for so many	New Walk	A walk in images along Leicester's unique 18th Century pathway
Green Bicycle Murder	Leicestershire's most well-known unsolved murder	Shady Lane	Two images separated by over a century
Gumley	What did happen at this ancient site?	St Nicholas Place	New vistas of Medieval Leicester from the new BBC Broadcasting Centre
Hanbury	The man who first staged 'Messiah' in an English parish church	Scraptoft Spy	The Leicester college principal who was a spy for SOE
Hill Street Blues	Joseph Carey Merrick, an inspiration, past and present	Tale of two villages	Beauchamp and Harcourt - The linked villages of Kibworth
High Cross History	The heart of Medieval Leicester and what remains of it today	Via Devana	Along the Roman Gartree Road from Leicester to the County border
Jane West	In recognition of Little Bowden's little-known radical poetess	Wesley	The Leicestershire associations with the founder of Methodism
King of Sanitation	Thomas Crapper's ironwork, still to be seen in Oakham	Whistle into History	Did Stephenson invent the steam whistle in Leicestershire?
Knaptoft	Silence and sadness in a place of sanctuary	Whitwick Reformatory	Harsh life for young Irish delinquents at a peaceful Leicestershire Abbey
Lady C's wartime flight	Why did Cecilia Johnstone hitch a wartime flight to Brussels?
Leicester's Artists	Celebrating Leicester's fine heritage of 19th Century artists


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