EPW047644 ENGLAND (1935). The city centre, Leicester, from the north-west, 1935

clock tower

Lower Lee Street. Lower Lee Street is a remnant of Lee Street. 50, Lee Street was the birthplace in 1862 of Joseph Merrick, the “Elephant Man”. Lee Street was an area of dense slum housing and most of it can be seen to have been cleared by the time of the 1947 aerial survey of this area. Most of the former Lee Street lies under Lee Circle, with the multi-storey car park at its centre.

Alderman Newton Boys School On the site of the Greyfriars friary and the site of King Richard III’s long-lost grave, where his remains were discovered in 2012. The school now houses the King Richard III Visitor Centre.

The Guildhall

St Luke’s church. On the corner of Humberstone Road and Bell Lane. Completed in 1868 to serve the growing population of Leicester, it was demolished in 1950.

Hillcrest Hospital. Main entrance on Sparkenhoe Street just above Swain Street railway bridge. Originally built as Leicester Union Workhose, it later became a geriatric hospital. Demolished in 1977, the site is now houses Moat Community College Joseph Merrick, better known as the “Elephant Man”, was an inmate of the workhouse for 4 years from the age of 17.

St John the Divine

Town Hall

Central Station

London Road Station

Site of Odeon Cinema

Secular Hall

Great Central St

Horse Repository

St Margarets

All Saints

Singer Building

Old Grammar School

Humberstone Gate