Category: Locations
5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bradgate Park
Kenwood Lido in Knighton, Leicester – Closed in the 1970’s
The History Behind Leicester’s Art Deco Tram Shelters
Canary Cottage
“Canary Cottage” is named after its yellow exterior, is a tiny thatched cottage that is now dwarfed by a large grain dryer. Its can be seen from the A47
The Smallest Church In Leicestershire
The quaint church of St. James in Drayton is the smallest church in Leicestershire.
GN&LNW Railway Line: East Norton Tunnel
East Norton Tunnel sits a mile south of East Norton village, between the A47 and Hallaton village. The tunnel, originally built in 1879 is 444 yards long.
The Largest Explosion Ever On UK Soil, RAF Fauld
Hallaton Bottle Kicking
Imagine a rugby scrum involving hundreds of willing participants. Pushing, shoving, rucking, mauling, punching and kicking each other over a small keg of beer. In a field full of hedgerows, trees and barbed wire fences. The goal lines being two brooks, over a mile apart. There is one aim, to get the keg of beer over your village’s brook.
The Humber Stone
For hundreds of years, myths and legends have been attached to this once prominent feature of the Leicestershire landscape.