Day out in town - July 2020

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. 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.

The Lafubao Oriental supermarket on Ashby Road. (I noticed the buddleia growing in the upstairs window. Buddleia gets everywhere!)

Hasting Street, looking towards Oxford Street.

This year, Charnwood Borough Council replaced its fleet of rubbish trucks. Unlike the previous generation, they do not have colour-coded cabs, (previously they were green for recycling, brown for garden waste, and white for household waste) and they all have four axles, whereas previously only garden waste and some white-cabbed lorries had eight wheels and the others had six wheels. This is of the most recent type of Dennis rubbish lorry, with others having been in the fleet before and sometimes when the council ran a fleet mainly consisting of Mercedes-Benz Econics.

Radmoor Road.

Storer Road.

Ashby Road.

Student accommodation at Harry French on Ashby Road.

New student flats on Ashby Road. Whilst I do appreciate the modern looks personally, it doesn't really visually sympathise with the surrounding buildings - including the flats built just behind it prior to construction of this building. Also at fault is that the builders were not wearing hard hats...

Leicester Road, looking towards the town center. The crane towers over the scene.

The Tesco Express store on Leicester Road built in 2012.

The new entrance to Southfields Park, viewed from within the park.

Construction works at the Endowed Schools.

Southfields Park, looking towards the borough council offices.

Southfields Road, from Leicester Road.

Barrow Street, looking towards Jubilee Way.

Woodgate, from High Street.

High Street, looking towards the town centre. The Skylink bus is to leave for East Midlands Airport. These buses were replaced by newer buses shortly afterwards, despite the newest of the old buses being just about two years old.