As I promised in my post on All Saint's Church Thorpe Acre with Dishley, here is the story of the St. Peter's Centre. In 1889, an iron mission church was built by Mr James Lee of Manchester, and dedicated by the Bishop of Leicester. This building, which was intended to be a temporary structure, is still standing. A Sunday school was also established at this time. Just three years later, the mission church was extended to double its original size. The foundation of a permanent Sunday school building was laid in 1896. By the turn of the century, however, a permanent place of worship became urgent. In 1912, a new church building was completed, built of specially donated Mountsorrel granite, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Peterborough. It was designed by architects W. S. Weatherley of London and G. H. Barrowcliffe of Loughborough, who had also designed the Memorial Baths in Queen's Park, (now the Charnwood Museum,) the Carnegie Library in Granby Street, and the present Un

 These photos were taken from Beacon Hill in July 2009. How many Loughborough landmarks can you spot?

In the middle of last month, I found a treasure trove of old photographs from around 2012-2014, which I had previously given up for lost after a hard drive failure on my computer a few years back. Some of the photos I remembered well, whereas others I had completely forgotten about. This photo of the Memorial Square and Clock Tower in Coalville (one of the forgotten ones) was taken seven years ago today on Sunday the 19th of October 2014. The Memorial Clock Tower, Coalville, was completed in 1925 (two years after the Carillon Tower in Loughborough), and was listed as Grade II in April 2010. (I haven't been to Coalville for many years because... there's not a lot to do there. There used to be the wonderful Snibston Museum, but that was torn down several years ago. Rather, the reason why I went to Coalville last was for another particular reason, which brought me to Coalville every Sunday. The bus ride was rather inconvenient, due to the lack of a direct bus between Loughborough

 Four years ago today, I noticed that the sky had turned a dusty colour and the sun had turned a weird shade of orange. (Not exactly red, though I think it makes the title sound more dramatic. I'll let you be the judges.) The strange, hazy colouration of the sky and sun was apparently caused by Storm Ophelia, an ex-hurricane which brought lots of Saharan dust to the UK.

 This is the Grange Retail Park, off Allendale Road, which was built in 2018. These photos were taken in early April and in June this year.  These smaller units are, from right to left, a Greggs, the third branch of Greggs in Loughborough; a Subway, one of six in Loughborough; and a vacant unit which was originally slated to become a veterinary surgery. Loughborough's second Aldi discount store opened in late 2018. Also present is a Costa Coffee with a drive-thru. (4/2021) A more general view of the complex. (6/2021)

 Here are twenty more photos of streets in and around Loughborough. Station Boulevard. Loughborough's one and only road to be named a 'boulevard', it was built in 2012 as part of the redevelopment of the area around Loughborough railway station. (04/2021) Darwin Crescent. This housing estate was built firstly by Bryant Homes, a subsidiary of Taylor Woodrow since 2001, and which existed until 2010, and then by Taylor Wimpey, formed from the merger of Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey. The road is named after Charles Darwin, the father of the evolution theory (and the other road on the estate is named after the geneticist Gregor Mendel (Mendel Drive)). (Personally, I think that Darwin was also the founder of modern racism, which is actually implied by his theories about chimps turning into humans. Which is one reason why I don't buy that stuff myself. It is a very complex matter, and this blog is about photography, not science, hence I shall not go into further detail over

These photographs were taken on a rather rainy day in September 2017 aboard a South Notts 1 bus bound for Nottingham and operated by Nottingham City Transport. Loughborough Road. Rempstone Road. Kirk Ley Road. Note the unusual configuration of the roundabout at the bottom of Kirk Ley Road. The war memorial on Main Street, East Leake. Main Street, East Leake. The large house on the left-hand side of the road is the Manor House. Gotham Road. A turboprop plane passing overhead. Rushcliffe Halt railway station.