The Edward Herbert Building is one of Loughborough University's more distinctive-looking buildings. It is named after Sir Edward Herbert, who was chairman of the board of governors between 1957 and 1963. The building is distinctive due to its unusual concave roof/canopy. It is home to the university's Centre for Faith and Spirituality, squash courts, cafes and a convenience store.

 Broadway. The place that anyone who is anyone lives. The place where all the movie stars hang out. The place where all the businessmen and businesswomen work. The place where - hold on, that's the wrong Broadway! While Broadway is a name associated with certain famous and important streets in the likes of London or New York City, Loughborough's Broadway is quite different. It doesn't have fancy limos or glitzy celebrities or mega-rich business tycoons. In short, it's not very fancy at all, but rather almost the opposite. Welcome to Broadway, Loughborough! Broadway, built in the late 1940s, is on the Shelthorpe Estate. It is roughly 570 metres long, and runs from Park Road at its western end to Manor Road at the other end. It was built in a long single curve; halfway along it crosses Beaumont Road. It also crosses Maple Road further to the east, and Willow Road begins further west. Opposite Willow Road is a cul-de-sac, and between Willow Road and Beaumont Road is a seco

 I found this yarn-bombed post box on Kenilworth Avenue in late April this year.

This building, called The Gate, is being built on the corner of Nottingham Road and Falcon Street by Solus Homes, and is expected to be completed in February 2022. It is part of a development of three blocks of luxury 1- and 2-bedroom apartments on the site known as The Waterside Village. The building behind The Gate in the picture, called The Mill, was originally built as a hosiery mill in 1889. From the 1950s it was occupied by 3M, which eventually moved to the former AstraZeneca site; The Mill was then extended and converted to flats. The final building is The Wharf, whose construction is yet to start. The development has residents' facilities which include a gymnasium, a luxury swimming pool, a communal workspace and a concierge. According to the Loughborough Echo , there will be a convenience store and a café on Nottingham Road; also, the development will also allow for the possible expansion of the Preci-Spark factory on Morley Street. This picture was taken in April 2021.

A rare photograph of the soon-to-close Beacon Bingo on Baxter Gate, taken from the upper floor of Knotty Knits and Kreative Krafts, Baxter Gate, three years ago today (19th of June 2018).  

In 2019, works began on widening the A512 Ashby Road between Snell's Nook Lane and Leicester Road, Shepshed, as the beginning of the construction of the West of Loughborough Sustainable Urban Extension. These photos were taken in late April 2020. Widening works to the west of junction 23 of the M1. M1, looking north. M1, looking south. A new roundabout is being built between Snell's Nook Lane and junction 23 of the M1 to serve the new West of Loughborough Sustainable Urban Extension to the north and the Loughborough Science and Enterprise Park.

Occasionally you will come across a shop with more than one entrance, and sometimes these different entrances are on completely different streets. Here are two of the M&S in Leicester in February 2018. Gallowtree Gate (ugh, what a name!) - southern side of M&S. This side was built in the 1930s.   Humberstone Gate - northern side of M&S. Built in the 1990s following the demolition of the Lewis department store. It is on this side, in the entrance, that there is the shortest escalator I ever saw. For many years I had had a vague memory of it; however I was never sure which M&S branch had it (apart from that it wasn't the one in Loughborough), until I visited this store, possibly around 2016.

 When you think of a British telephone box, you normally think of this (K6 telephone box, see picture below). But bizarrely, there's only one of them in Lougborough that actually works*, which is this one, at Loughborough Midland railway station. Image taken 17/04/2021 *There are non-functional telephone boxes on the platform at the Great Central Railway, at the Bishop Meadow Locks and on Squirrel Way. (The last one looked rather the worse for wear!)

  This photograph was taken during the remodelling and extension of the Morrisons supermarket off Maxwell Drive, Loughborough. The way they rebuilt the store was a most interesting process: Firstly, they built an extension at the back of the store, which included a new main entrance. Operations in the old part of the store continued as normal until the second phase, when the new part of the store opened, and the old part of the store was closed off to begin reconfigurations. The two sides of the store were separated by a partition, which was eventually removed, significantly expanding the store. The old main entrance became a secondary entrance and exit. Afterwards other parts of the new store were closed off to build customer toilets, a café and a news stand. Regrettably, I didn't take more photographs, and this is the only one I have that I took during the redevelopment.

 For several years the mainstay of Charnwood's refuse truck fleet consisted of Mercedes-Benz Econics which replaced the preceding Dennis Eagle rubbish lorries in 2011. But as time wore on, the fleet required some supplementary vehicles, including some of the old Dennis Eagles the Econics had replaced (some of which looked rather the worse for wear!), as well as a few vehicles from elsewhere, including this Dennis Eagle which came from Salford (the rubbish lorries had marks on them, but these were very faint).  The first picture was taken on the 10th of May 2016, while the other three pictures were taken on the 14th of August 2018, all on Wordsworth Road. Here's a somewhat enhanced version of the image above: P.S. I haven't seen this rubbish lorry since the new rubbish lorries arrived last year, but Google Earth satellite imagery taken in June this year shows what appears to be a green rubbish lorry in a corner of the depot off Granite Way in Mountsorrel. Could this be it? A

  This photo was taken at Fennel Street/Lemyngton Street. An unidentified Wright Pulsar Gemini-bodied VDL DB250 in service with Arriva Midlands heads in the opposite direction for Leicester, while another Pulsar Gemini, Arriva 4762 (FJ06 ZSK), directly in front of my bus on its way to Shepshed. I was on another 127 right behind (as you can see, I was upstairs, on what was almost certainly yet another Pulsar Gemini.) Thirty two Wright Pulsar Geminis were purchased by Arriva Midlands in 2006; the Pulsar Gemini's other main buyer was Arriva London, who bought about one hundred and thirty. While many of the London buses have gone on to pastures new, the Midlands Pulsar Geminis have all (mostly) remained in service in the Leicester area for the past 15 years, being operated from Arriva's Thurmaston depot. At present only one Pulsar Gemini has been permanently withdrawn (due to damage in an accident near Loughborough); however, their days could be numbered. Passing fifteen years in s

 As I said before, lockdown was a period of discovery for me. On one occasion, I came across this bridge, which I had no idea about its existence. The bridge is to the east of Ravensthorpe Drive. At the north end of the bridge, looking towards Ravensthorpe Drive. Looking across the bridge. Looks very overgrown!