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Secret Leicestershire Episodes

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    How the Siege of Leicester turned the Civil War

    The 1645 Siege of Leicester was a grim chapter in the history of the city.

  2. How Mountsorrel’s Butter Market got its name

    After the medieval market cross was moved, the Butter Cross was erected - here's why

  3. How Leicester became home to unique gas gadgets!

    Leicester is home to the world’s largest collection of objects from the history of gas.

  4. How Halfords started in Leicester’s Halford Street

    Retailers Halfords and Currys opened their first shops in Edwardian Leicester.

  5. Glenfield's secret tunnel

    Designed by railway engineer George Stephenson Glenfield Tunnel is just over a mile long.

  6. Forkbeard or Cnut: Viking king buried at church

    The Viking cross at Sproxton and its links to the Anglo-Norse monarchy

  7. Fastest car on the planet hidden in Leicestershire

    The Darracq 200hp: The record-breaking car hidden in a Leicester garage

  8. England's 'Most Important' Leper Hospital

    St Mary and St Lazarus Hospital was one of the most important leper hospitals in England.

  9. Divorced: Henry VIII's 'gift' to Anne of Cleves

    How the only wife Henry VIII divorced ended up with a Melton Pub

  10. Coalville’s famed Music Hall comedian Billy Burton

    Billy Burton was a well-known Music Hall comedian from Coalville in the 1920’s.

  11. Christmas Eve 1965: A star fell from the sky

    It’s 60 years since the Barwell meteorite landed in the village and made history.

  12. Action Man and the Unexploded Bomb!

    The Coalville toy factory that created Action Man and was almost blow up

  13. A runaway slave stars in a defining moment of Leicester’s history

    The Abolitionist and runaway slave Frederick Douglass' links to a Leicester meeting hall

  14. A real-life Jurassic Park hidden in Leicestershire

    200 million years of history can be seen in exposed rock layers at Tilton Railway Cutting

  15. ‘Tanky’ Smith: Leicester’s first private detective

    Francis ‘Tanky’ Smith was in Borough Police Force before becoming a private detective.

  16. ‘Holy Town’ – Hallaton’s secret ‘bottle-kicking’ history

    The destination for pilgrims and the capital of bottle kicking and Hare Pie Scramble!

  17. ‘A medieval mayor and a Leicester murder scandal’

    Brothers Walter and John Bushby sought sanctuary in two of Leicester’s medieval churches.

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