Mark Corby's Pictures of Leicester

detail on a bridge

On the river Soar ,Leicester city centre, near the Holiday Inn. The bridge was totally rebuilt but they kept these stone pillars with assorted heads sticking out. Every head is different.

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Prince Ruperts Gateway, Leicester

Prince Ruperts Gateway, Leicester, so called because through here Prince Ruperts Royalist men chased the defeated Parliamentarians in the English Civil War where they fought a last stand among the castle walls. This is the about the only part of the old castle left. St Mary De Castro church is in the background.

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Leicester, Welford Road Prison

Leicester prison looking very much like a castle. The walls are approximately 60 feet high at the sides and back away from the main entrance shown and nobody has ever escaped here.

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Book

The famous haunted book at Leicester Guildhall Museum Museum staff have come in in the morning to find the pages turned and the book moved. If you visit the place it has a real atmosphere of old times and important decisions being made there. You can feel it as soon as you enter.

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Gibbet

A gibbet at the leicester Guildhall Museum. To be put in a gibbet after you were hung was reserved as a special mark of infamy for notorious criminals.

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Bow bridge sign

Plaque on Leicesters bow bridge. Legend has it that King Richard III's bones were dug up from the nearby church and thrown into the River Soar near here a few years after his defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. The famous Shakespearean line "My kingdom for a horse!" comes from this battle.

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Guildhall clock

The clock at the Giuldhall Museum, Leicester.

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Leicester Guildhall great hall

Inside Leicester Guildhalls great hall built around 1390. This building is haunted which isn't surprising given its age.

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Leicester Guildhall

Leicester Guildhall Museum in the city centre. The great hall was built circa 1390. This building has at least 5 ghosts and ghost watching nights are regularly held here.

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Cheeky squirrel

In Abbey Park, Leicester, I was photographing some birds in the pets corner When this cheeky chappie scurried down and started calmly eating the birds food.

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Leicester New Walk

Leicester New Walk. A shady lane with trees and Georgian architecture running through the middle of Leicester, well known as a short cut for university students.

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Leicester new walk

A view of New Walk in Leicester relatively unchanged for centuries. Its a very peaceful place.

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Leicester market statue

The statue in Leicester market. Europes biggest covered market.

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Leicester Town hall square

Leicester town hall square showing the fountain. It looks almost continental from this viewpoint.

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Town hall, Leicester, Leicestershire

Leicester, the town hall clock and the fountain, a scene of many a drunken escapade on new years night lol.

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Lion fountain, Leicester, Leicestershire

The fountain in Leicester town square.

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Fountain, Leicester, Leicestershire

Leicester town hall square. Close up of the lions head on fountain with water splashing around. The original photo of this is amazing for detail.

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Fountain, Leicester, Leicestershire

A view of the fountain in the Town square

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Leicester St Margarets

Leicester St Margarets church on a spring evening Look at the clock for the time this was taken.

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