British Towns and Cities: Leicester

W.G. Hoskins pays an historical visit to Leicester.

St Nicholas's Church and the Jewry WallThe traveller reaching Leicester from the south gets two remarkably different views of the town, depending on whether he arrives by the main London road or by the former Great Central Railway from Marylebone.

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