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University and more - March 2018

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A boarded-up building at an auto dealership on Knightthorpe Road. The Morrisons supermarket. Rainbow on Sandringham Drive The new student village and Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel under construction. A  building under demolition on Frederick Street Towers Hall and Loughborough University. Towers Hall.   Burleigh Brook in spate following heavy rainfall.

A look back to a few years ago

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Victorian houses on Ashby Road. The branch of the Loc8me student housing business on the corner of Ashby Road and Storer Road. It has since closed and become a cafe. St Mary's Roman Catholic Church on Ashby Road. The canal basin complex as seen from Thorpe Hill. This rubbish lorry on Epinal Way was from North West Leicestershire district. Detail of Loughborough College. Loughborough seen from Thorpe  Hill. Notable landmarks from fore- to background: Fire station training tower Chimney at Cumberland industrial estate Brush factories near the Midland railway station The Buckingham Drive bridge over the Blackbrook. Derby Road outside Regent Place. The Skylink is leaving for the airport and Derby, whilst the other bus is heading for Shepshed. New housing on Station Boulevard. Baxter Gate and The Coneries as seen from a double-decker bus on Baxter Gate. The footbridge at Loughborough station. Council housing on North Road. Stanford Viaduct. This viaduct (only part shown) carries the Gre

Day out in town - July 2020

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  Jubilee Way showing the Courthouse and the office of the MP Jane Hunt and the Loughborough Conservatives. Lemyngton Street. On the left is a Study Inn, formerly county council offices. Baxter Gate looking towards the Coneries. Baxter Gate looking towards the town centre. A Winsons bus leaves the bus stands while another waits. The Study Inn. Jubilee Way. A non-route-branded Nottingham City Transport bus leaves Pinfold Gate on its way to Baxter Gate. Baxter Gate, looking towards the Coneries. Baxter Gate, looking towards the Coneries. Baxter Gate. The brightly coloured building on the left has recently been repainted, as this photograph shows. It is a copy of an earlier building that stood in the Market Place prior to road widening in the early 1930s. Ivanhoe Terrace on Ashby Road. Granville Street, looking towards Burleigh Road. Regent Street, looking towards its junction with Oxford Street. Regent Street, looking towards its junction with Oxford Street. The Lafubao Oriental supermar