Garden Street Update – Burt’s letter to the Mercury
Burt’s excellent letter to the Mercury was kindly published by the paper. Here is what he says: – Dear Sir/Madam – Yet again Leicester is on the verge of losing…
Details1 Garden Street – Leicester’s last ‘one-up, one-down’ house
Further to the very real concern surrounding the fate of Leicester’s only surviving example of “one up – one down” housing at 1 Garden Street, I (Claire Wells) decided to…
DetailsHeritage Tales and Trails
As part of Leicester’s Heritage Open Days festival, we have arranged two very special events for Saturday 16th September. See here for more detail Heritage Tales and Trails – Leicester Civic Society Both…
DetailsFarben Works – Slater Street now added to Save Britain’s Heritage 2023 at Risk List
Fantastic News! Thanks to the efforts of our Deputy Chair, Stu Simmonds, we are delighted to announce that the Farben Works building on Slater Street has now been added to…
DetailsLeicester Civic Society AGM 2023 – Report
On Saturday 24th June we held our AGM at the Secular Hall in Leicester city centre. It was relatively well attended consisting of nine Society members plus five committee members.…
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