Our 2023 Architectural Awards
The two winners of the prestigious Leicester Civic Society Architectural Awards have now been presented with their awards. They have both created outstanding places that enrich Leicester’s built environment and…
2023 Architectural Awards from the Leicester Civic Society
On Friday 20th October, at the Grand Hotel in Granby Street, the Leicester Civic Society celebrated their annual architectural awards. Each year, the Leicester Civic Society awards two buildings in the…
Safe Streets Leicester
On Saturday 30 September Safe Streets Now held a national day of action between 11 am and 12 pm. In Leicester, this took place at the junction of Narbourough Road…
Heritage Tales and Trails
On Saturday 16th September we presented our 2023 Leicester Civic Society Heritage Open Day event at the wonderful Secular Hall in Leicester city centre. As our title suggests, we had…
1 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…