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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2011 16:41:45 GMT
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Post by onlymark on Mar 27, 2011 17:36:38 GMT
Cheery, the building corner Granby Street and Belvoir Street is the old General News Room, a cross between a library and a newspaper reading room I think. The statues are of the nine 'Muses' - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuseTheir names are - Clio, Thalia, Erato, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Calliope, Terpsichore, Urania, Melpomene. The Latin you see is actually the name of that Muse. In your photo there is Erato and Terpsichore. Google is my friend as well (plus I recognised the name of Erato).
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Post by onlymark on Mar 27, 2011 17:43:32 GMT
Sorry, just to clarify - the statues are probably of the 'Fates' either called - Nona or Clotho, Decima or Lachesis and Morta or Atropos depending if you were Greek or Roman. It's the reliefs, or whatever they are called, that are the Muses.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 27, 2011 17:45:11 GMT
And - next you go, have a look at 70-72 Granby Street and see if you can spot the Viking heads.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 27, 2011 18:23:09 GMT
what these ones? ;D
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 27, 2011 18:24:40 GMT
...and thank you both for the info
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Post by onlymark on Mar 27, 2011 19:10:16 GMT
Them's um.
I'm sure most people get a false impression of somewhere like Leicester because they don't think back far enough. They only think of the modern impressions of it. Yet funnily enough it might sometimes take a tourist/visitor to notice the history of the place. And Leicester certainly has plenty of history.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 27, 2011 19:40:00 GMT
I agree, there are some terribly scummy bits...I plan to visit the Jewry Wall museum this week. There isn't a lot in the museum but in the grounds there are some Roman excavations....
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 30, 2011 19:40:37 GMT
the fountain was working today...YAY!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 1, 2011 18:09:44 GMT
Around Greyfriars in the city are some old banks, sadly long empty and too expensive for anybody to take the buildings on I spose...some have been converted into luxury appartments but not this one. some rather groovy lamps outside the doors... another empty bank building... lovely doors.... this caught my eye too....in the distance...I have a thing for turrets... and these gates at the Guilhall are a recent addition
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 1, 2011 18:26:35 GMT
We went along to the Jewry Wall Museum. In 1936 a factory was demolished to make way for a public swimming pool and the 2,000 year old ruins were discovered. Only the Roman baths remains are visible as a lot of the rest of the excavations are now under modern buildings, of course a thorough examination of the whole site was made and the artefacts preserved in the City's museums. The modern building houses a museum on the ground floor and a college on the 1st floor. I didn't take many pics...there are some Roman floor mosaics excavated from the site a Saxon carving and the most evocative exhibit in the whole place imo....a Roman roof tile. Whilst the clay was still wet an small child wandered across it. 2,000 years ago...ooOOoOooOoooooo....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2011 18:34:48 GMT
Continually fascinating, Cheery! I was tempted to say that it is amazing how the little Roman mosaics look the same everywhere in Europe, and then I thought about how gothic churches look similar everywhere, so it is only normal.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 1, 2011 19:00:23 GMT
Cheers medear....can you see the church behind the Roman ruins in the first pic? (post 70). St Nicholas Church dates back to Anglo-Saxon times and although altered by the Normans and again in the 19th century, it retains examples of Saxon work and re-used Roman bricks can be clearly seen in the walls and the tower.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 7, 2011 8:22:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2011 21:13:25 GMT
Spring is not as advanced as in the country south of yours.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 7, 2011 22:00:01 GMT
You are correct.... ;D we are lagging behind...
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2011 3:11:20 GMT
Ohhhh, Cheery! I was out of town and am only now seeing the wonderful additions to this thread. You have so many beautiful buildings in your city, from so many eras. Since I've been on this forum, I've been amazed at how many jewels there are around the world hiding in plain site. Not that I had any reason to have a particular impression of Leicestershire, but I know it wasn't one of City of Beautiful Fancies.
Anyway ~~ it's hard to pick, but I think my favorite photo is of the severely elegant ironwork on the balcony over the serious lion. Um ....... or maybe the one of the clipped shrubs and the wattle wall.
Did all the banks close around the same time, or here and there over the years? So many!
Why is the museum called the Jewry Wall? Amazing how beautifully preserved the floor mosaics are. Yes, the tile with the footprint is wonderful, but the Saxon carving ~ !
Thanks so much for this. In return, a word to the wise: where there are turrets, there must be wimples.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 8, 2011 13:58:39 GMT
Thanks Bixa, you are a love! The banks all seem to have moved to more modern buildings during the 80s and 90s...lots of amalgamations, takeovers and rationalisation. (progress they call it... ) The origin of the name ‘Jewry’ is not known for certain, definitely not a Roman name, and historians don't think that it is linked to the Medieval Jewish community in Leicester. The name is likely to be a corruption of ‘jurats’, the senior members of the Corporation of Leicester who may have met in the churchyard just behind the wall between the 13th and 15th centuries. This is a best guess, there is no clear evidence.
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Post by Chickadeedeedee on Apr 24, 2011 17:22:17 GMT
Fantastic photos, all!
Thanks for the link to here, Cheery! ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2011 19:07:37 GMT
Thanks for the answers, Cheery. Aside from the empty banks, how is the economy in Leicestershire generally?
Welcome, Chickadeedeedee!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 24, 2011 19:52:31 GMT
OOOH HELLO C3D... ;D Leicestershire is suffering just like everywhere else Bixa... we have a very large population in the city, and we have 2 Universities in Leicester itself (there's Loughborough University too). Tuition fees have recently been trebled which will have a huge impact on the student population, especially as the companies traditionally employing students in temporary jobs during the holidays aren't doing so....there aren't many jobs about at all, and lots of people have been made redundant or have lost their jobs because companies have gone bust....it's terrifying.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 25, 2011 18:00:12 GMT
Jeeeeez, that is terrifying, Cheery. If there's a big reduction in the student population, that will mean even fewer jobs within the sector of businesses -- bookstores, clothing stores, restaurants, bars, etc. -- that cater to students.
You have at least one major hospital there and surely there are others. As the city of New Orleans has proved post-Katrina, it's dangerous to have reduced medical staff and facilities available.
What's really scary is, where does one go from the big city when there are no jobs there?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 25, 2011 18:29:27 GMT
We just wait and see...
We have 3 large hospitals in the city. and whilst the government has said that funding is 'ring fenced' for the NHS...we have to make massive savings. We'll just have to suck it up and get on with it...no point whining.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 25, 2011 18:33:21 GMT
We'll just have to suck it up and get on with it...no point whining. If I had ever doubted that you were English, that one comment would have convinced me that you were -- with a vengeance! ;D
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 25, 2011 19:21:23 GMT
ooh I don't like to make a fuss.....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 12:08:30 GMT
Such an interesting thread. Great photos, Cheery. I've never been to Leicestershire, but have heard a lot about it in the past. It's quite different to what I imagined.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 29, 2011 19:50:50 GMT
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Post by mich64 on Dec 29, 2011 20:47:58 GMT
Oh! Oh Oh! Cheery, I want to go there! Are the items against the walls for sale? The food looks delicious! I love to eat and shop at the same time, like in Tod's breakfast pictures, both of these places look like they taste good and lood good as well.
Cheers! Mich
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2011 20:59:42 GMT
The interior pictures are fine -- the food looks great!
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 30, 2011 4:16:27 GMT
What an enticing restaurant! It must be good, to have endured all this time. When Mich goes, can I go too? What's that strip that looks like turquoise neon in the window of the bottom picture, please? At first I thought there was a swimming pool outside.
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