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Leicester Chronicler Tempus omnia revelat Time reveals all Welcome to the real Leicestershire

Listening to the historic heartbeat of the City of Leicester and its environs in the English East Midlands. A personal reflection of past and present thoughts and aspirations			Design and text © Stephen Butt 2006 Rev 22/09/07
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Research Guide Leicestershire history sources			Family history links Links to useful sites

Welcome and Administration The aims of this website			Local interest links Local history websites

Make contact If you wish to email			Village website links Focused local links

Why bother with history? A personal view			Oral Testimony A quick guide





Our websites

www.woodforde.co.uk The History of the English Woodford(e) family of Wiltshire including its early roots in Leicestershire www.rjlees.co.uk Research into the life and activities of the Leicestershire-born spiritualist author and journalist Robert James Lees www.leicesterchronicler.com Listening to the historic heartbeat of the City of Leicester and its environs in the English East Midlands

Features and articles - complete index


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 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	Origins	Leicester and Leicestershire before the Romans
Faith Foundations	The men of faith who found sanctuary in Leicestershire	Peck's View	Francis Peck's intriguing engraving of Bow Bridge and St Nicholas Church
Freemen of South Field	How the buildings that occupy this ancient field reflect its history	Research Requests	Four pages sharing your lines of research, enquiries and queries
Galway Bay	The gentle Leicester prison physician and his worldwide hit	Richard III	No other English monarch is regarded locally with such emotion
Granby Halls	The history of a lost venue that was a meeting place for so many	Rutland Street	Lift up your eyes - and discover the history of every street
Green Bicycle Murder	Leicestershire's most well-known unsolved murder	Man of the Mists	The remarkable story of the Leicestershire-born psychic
Gumley	What did happen at this ancient site?	New Walk	A walk in images along Leicester's unique 18th Century pathway
Hanbury	The man who first staged 'Messiah' in an English church	Shady Lane	Two images separated by over a century
Hill Street Blues	Joseph Carey Merrick, an inspiration, past and present	St Nicholas Place	New vistas of Medieval Leicester from the new BBC Broadcasting Centre
High Cross History	The heart of Medieval Leicester and what remains of it today	Scraptoft Spy	The Leicester college principal who was a spy for SOE
Jane West	In recognition of Little Bowden's little-known radical poetess	Tale of two villages	Beauchamp and Harcourt - The linked villages of Kibworth
King of Sanitation	Thomas Crapper's ironwork, still to be seen in Oakham	Via Devana	Along the Roman Gartree Road from Leicester to the County border
Knaptoft	Silence and sadness in a place of sanctuary	Wesley	The Leicestershire associations with the founder of Methodism
Lady C's wartime flight	Why did Cecilia Johnstone hitch a wartime flight to Brussels?	Whistle into History	Did Stephenson invent the steam whistle in Leicestershire?
Leicester's Artists	Celebrating Leicester's fine heritage of 19th Century artists	Whitwick Reformatory	Harsh life for young Irish delinquents at a peaceful Leicestershire Abbey

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		An ideal present Central Leicester 1897-1997 A compilation of over two hundred previously unpublished historical photographs of the city and suburbs, many dating to the last decade of the 19th Century Edited by the owner of this website, and published by Tempus Publishing, this book is now available Full details available here