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A blade of grass...................

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Image: biscuit-world/r.php?r=tea-time-assorted-biscuits

Image: THE LEICESTERSHIRE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETY Issue 16

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Littleton Street, Woodgate

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Bradgate Street, Woodgate

Both images: Copyright Dennis Calow. 1964 licence: Vanished Leicester. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/: 

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Image: Leicester Daily Mercury. July 1938

A 1904 map showing Woodgate and route (red arrows) Evelyn and James would have taken. By 1939 Bradgate Road had been extended to Blackbird Road. Parker Drive is at the top end of Blackbird Road.

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Image: Leicester Daily Mercury. June 1939

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Images: Leicester Daily Mercury. June 1939

Crowds outside St Leonard's Church (now demolished) Leicester

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