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The Bilstone Gibbet Post: The Gruesome Truth
The Bilstone Gibbet Post: The Gruesome Truth
The woman who gave birth to a cat
The woman who gave birth to a cat
Did Chaucer get married here?
Chaucer may have got married in St Mary de Castro Church, Leicester, in around 1366.
Sproxton’s Viking Cross
The Sproxton Cross is an Anglo-Norse monument by the Church of St Bartholemew.
The 450-year-old love story in Sign Language
The first recorded use of sign language in England at Leicester Cathedral
The Leicester Balloon Riot of 1864
How did a huge hydrogen balloon cause a riot and chaos in Victoria Park?
Action Man and the Unexploded Bomb!
The Coalville toy factory that helped make Spitfires and was almost blown up
The Green Dragon Inn: an infamous murder
16th May 1978 – a notorious day in Leicester’s history
‘The Best Car in The World’
The Darracq 200hp: THE fastest thing on the planet in 1905
Christmas Eve 1965: A star fell from the sky
It’s 60 years since the Barwell meteorite landed in the village and made history.
