Secret Leicestershire Episodes Available now
Launde Abbey (Part Two): The Cromwell Connection
"Myself for Launde” wrote Thomas Cromwell. The abbey chapel shares its secrets.
Launde Abbey (Part One) : History in the making
Launde Abbey has been a place of worship since the 1100s with a story to tell.
Leicester Castle Gallows
What lies beneath. The buried truth at Leicester castle.
The Worthington Lock-Up
A sobering overnight stay for drunks and miscreants awaiting court
The Bouskell Park Ice House
Before the fridge… was the ‘Ice House’
The 18th U.S. President pays Leicester a visit
Ulysses S. Grant stops off in Leicester on the 31st of May 1877.
Leicester Town Hall: 150 years of stories
The well-known and lesser-known sides of Leicester’s civic history
How Halfords started in Leicester’s Halford Street
Retailers Halfords and Currys opened their first shops in Edwardian Leicester.
The ancient castle at the heart of Oakham
Oakham Castle is one of the best examples of domestic Norman architecture in England.
Leicester’s brass band music controversy of 1856
An outdoor concert in Leicester in 1856 caused outrage and some people ended up in court.
