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National Space Centre, Leicester.
A show piece science centre with a real space rocket. The building looks like an inflated balloon! More info at Link and Link
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Repurposed tower, Wolsey Island, Leicester
This tower was once part of an industrial site but is now in residential use.
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Space Park, Leicester
Leicester's answer to mission control Houston. Link
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Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester
1891 sewage pumping station with 4 Gimson Woolf compound beam engines in one room. Now Leicester museum of Technology and a kissing cousin of the National Space Centre (which reminds me of the erotic gherkin in London). Abbey Lane has its... (more)
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Exploration Drive at Pioneer Park
On the right is the National Space Centre in Leicester.
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Cavendish House, Abbey Park, Leicester
A house (the ruins here) was built from the remains of Leicester Abbey's gatehouse after the abbey's dissolution in 1538. "In 1613 it was acquired by William Cavendish, first Earl of Devonshire, and subsequently became known... (more)
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Crane and Space Centre
The National Space Centre seen from the, next door, Abbey Pumping Station.
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Wolsey Mill - Leicester
A view of the mill, one corner survives. The rest has been rebuilt into apartments.
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Astronaut Statue outside the National Space Centre
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Ruin in Abbey Park
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The Altar - Leicester Abbey
The site of the altar in church; to the left out of view is the resting place of Thomas Wolsey.
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Cycle Route 6 past the National Space Centre, Leicester
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