Anywhere worth visiting in Leicester?

axisus

strumjoughlamps said:

Where will you be in Leicester? City Centre or outer?

Actually I just thought I'd drop in as I was passing as I thought it would break up a long car journey. I'm beginning to think I may as well just stop at the nearest services!

BloodEagle

Come off the M1 at Markfield and go for a walk in Bradgate Park - definitely dont expend time or energy to go into the city centre - its just a generic starbucks/poundland/macdonalds/cash converters sort of affair to be honest

Boromedic

I'd second what @BloodEagle says or closer to Markfield is Beacon Hill which is also lovely to walk around or the Outwoods near to Loughborough. I miss being able to wander/cycle around there, beautiful scenery.

strumjoughlamps

axisus said:

strumjoughlamps said:

Where will you be in Leicester? City Centre or outer?

Actually I just thought I'd drop in as I was passing as I thought it would break up a long car journey. I'm beginning to think I may as well just stop at the nearest services!

Yeah don’t come into the City unless you need to.. big  rejuvenation on St Margaret’s Way leading to slow traffic jams..

you would not be disappointed having a walk at either Bradgate Park or Beacon Hill.

Bod

BloodEagle said:

Come off the M1 at Markfield and go for a walk in Bradgate Park - definitely dont expend time or energy to go into the city centre - its just a generic starbucks/poundland/macdonalds/cash converters sort of affair to be honest

Aren't all city centres these days?  I used to love a wander around a different town centre, but sadly there's little point now. 

Another vote for Bradgate Park/Beacon Hill from me.  If you want to visit another world, pop into the Beaumont Leys shopping centre...

Boromedic

Hahaha, when I worked around Leicester we used to sing an alternative version of a Bucks Fizz classic, the title of which was The Land Of Beaumont Leys.....

Moominpapa

Don't stop at Leicester Forest East services - they are crummy.

english_bob

If you're going to break up a long car journey with a guitar related mooch in the east Midlands, I'd go for Nottingham.

strumjoughlamps

Bod said:

If you want to visit another world, pop into the Beaumont Leys shopping centre...

Boromedic said:

Hahaha, when I worked around Leicester we used to sing an alternative version of a Bucks Fizz classic, the title of which was The Land Of Beaumont Leys.....

I have been estate warden/caretaker all over the City but currently and for the last 3 months am posted on B/Leys and it’s easily the worst area and when at night I am having a moan about the constant fly tipping and crap I have to deal with the Wife’s response is always, ‘could be worse we could live that way’  

mudslide73

What was that great little guitar shop called near the train station @strumjoughlamps ? I mean late 90s early 00s. I like Lestah fwiw. Lovely people an all. 

horse

mudslide73 said:

What was that great little guitar shop called near the train station @strumjoughlamps ? I mean late 90s early 00s. I like Leastah fwiw. Lovely people an all. 

Sheehans

vale

saw some sweet bands at the charlotte once upon a life. apparently it's a chinese market now. chicken chow mein & chop suey...

Bod

horse said:

mudslide73 said:

What was that great little guitar shop called near the train station @strumjoughlamps ? I mean late 90s early 00s. I like Leastah fwiw. Lovely people an all. 

Sheehans

Yep Sheehan's.  It closed down last year unfortunately.

TheOtherDennis

vale said:

saw some sweet bands at the charlotte once upon a life. apparently it's a chinese market now. chicken chow mein & chop suey...

Don't know if it's moved from when you saw it, but the Charlotte is still going.

GavRichList

TheOtherDennis said:

vale said:

saw some sweet bands at the charlotte once upon a life. apparently it's a chinese market now. chicken chow mein & chop suey...

Don't know if it's moved from when you saw it, but the Charlotte is still going.

Nope, it’s a Chinese supermarket 

Nitefly

Awright, m'duck?

50 years or so ago I used to go to the Churchill, on the corner of High St and Silver St - it was a hangout of the band "Family" and their mates.

It was also a junkie's paradise - I knew a bloke who shot a double gin straight into his arm...

strumjoughlamps

Nitefly said:

Awright, m'duck?

50 years or so ago I used to go to the Churchill, on the corner of High St and Silver St - it was a hangout of the band "Family" and their mates.

It was also a junkie's paradise - I knew a bloke who shot a double gin straight into his arm...

Music in a Dolls House, what a classic.

spark240

The nearest motorway slip road...

Bod

spark240 said:

The nearest motorway slip road...

Walsall is most slip road isn't it?