Leicester, UK
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Often described as "that place between London and Leeds", or more often not described at all, Leicester has the dubious pleasure of being the furthest UK city from the sea.
Centred slap-bang right in the middle of the country, Leicester's strengths are also its weaknesses. Not really that far from anywhere, but not really that near either. Leicester was built on the success of the textile industry in the Victorian age, an industry which has suffered greatly in the UK due to cheaper production costs elsewhere in the world.
On the plus side, these now derelict Victorian mills are currently being turned at an alarming rate of knots into swanky apartments and student residences in an attempt to breathe life back into the city centre.
Famous stuff about Leicester/shire
Claims to be sports capital of the UK (!)
The football club (soccer for those of you of a transatlantic persuasion)
Yes, the Foxes are flying the flag for making something out of nothing.
Forays into Europe are eagerly anticipated next season.
The Rugby Union club.
The Tigers continue to sweep nearly all before them...
The Cricket club.
Leather, Willow, Tea, Summer afternoons, County Championships...
Gary Lineker!
TV soccer pundit, crisp advertiser and all round "nice guy".
Showaddywaddy.
The moon of love? Best forgotten.
Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Stilton Cheese and nearly every English crisp you can think of. Gorgeous.
Leicester's history is rife with deformity.
From the hunchbacked Richard III and the headless Lady Jane Grey through to The Elephant Man and Britains fattest man, Daniel Lambert, Leicester can rightfully claim to be freak central....
Not without its charm, Leicester is however much like any other medium sized provincial city in the UK.
Except further from the sea.
Centred slap-bang right in the middle of the country, Leicester's strengths are also its weaknesses. Not really that far from anywhere, but not really that near either. Leicester was built on the success of the textile industry in the Victorian age, an industry which has suffered greatly in the UK due to cheaper production costs elsewhere in the world.
On the plus side, these now derelict Victorian mills are currently being turned at an alarming rate of knots into swanky apartments and student residences in an attempt to breathe life back into the city centre.
Famous stuff about Leicester/shire
Claims to be sports capital of the UK (!)
The football club (soccer for those of you of a transatlantic persuasion)
Yes, the Foxes are flying the flag for making something out of nothing.
Forays into Europe are eagerly anticipated next season.
The Rugby Union club.
The Tigers continue to sweep nearly all before them...
The Cricket club.
Leather, Willow, Tea, Summer afternoons, County Championships...
Gary Lineker!
TV soccer pundit, crisp advertiser and all round "nice guy".
Showaddywaddy.
The moon of love? Best forgotten.
Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Stilton Cheese and nearly every English crisp you can think of. Gorgeous.
Leicester's history is rife with deformity.
From the hunchbacked Richard III and the headless Lady Jane Grey through to The Elephant Man and Britains fattest man, Daniel Lambert, Leicester can rightfully claim to be freak central....
Not without its charm, Leicester is however much like any other medium sized provincial city in the UK.
Except further from the sea.
