Have a look at this map of the area around Market Harborough railway station. It's a detail from the six-inch Ordnance Survey series published between 1888 and 1913. East of the station, on Rockingham Road, you see the legend Hospital, with Infectious Diseases below it in italics. This appears to relate to a square building on the north bank of the Welland, which I calculate to stand where Weddel Swift's plant is on the Riverside Industrial Estate is today. I have never seen any reference to the opening or operation of this hospital. But an advertisement in The Hospital from ...
Copyright © Dennis Calow One of the striking things about the aerial photograph of Leicester Midland steam locomotive shed I posted a couple of days ago is the long terraced street that passed close by it. Someone on Twitter (my mother used to work for him, as it happens) remembered visiting cousins in Upper Kent Street, as it was then called, and spending hours with them watching the coming and goings on the railway. Today Upper Kent Street has been redeveloped and even renamed Maidstone Road. But it lives on in the University of Leicester's Vanished Leicester collection where you ...
Ed: I am sure you will understand why we are pre-moderating comments on this post. We will not publish comments that name an individual, nor ones that clearly reference specific cases. As a party the Liberal Democrats believe firmly in evidence-based policy-making. We put huge amounts of effort into collecting and triangulating views and information, into scrutinising and testing ideas and suggestions, and into ensuring whatever policy proposals we put forward are robust and properly thought through, with all the consequences understood. Given all that entirely rational, logical behaviour when it comes to policy. what on earth happens to the ...
Many congratulations, and fingers crossed, for four Liberal Democrat councillors in England shortlisted in the Cllr 2022 Awards: Community Champion Cllr Susan Goodchild - Central Bedfordshire Council Leader of the Year Cllr Ruth Dombey - Sutton London Borough Council Resilience and Recovery Cllr Peter McDonald - South Cambridgeshire District Council Young Councillor of the Year Cllr Josh Babarinde OBE - Eastbourne Borough Council Sign up to get the latest news and analysis
The Local Government Information Unit has released the shortlists for its annual awards and four Liberal Democrat Councillors have made the billing! Lib Dem Voice's Editorial team send our congratulations and good luck on the night to for Liberal Democrats: Ruth Dombey - Sutton Borough Council (Leader of the Year) Ruth was first elected in 2002 and has been Leader of Lib Dem led Sutton council since 2012. Susan Goodchild - Central Bedfordshire District Council (Community Champion) Susan has been a Councillor since 2005 serving on both Bedfordshire County and Central Bedfordshire District Council. She is the Governor of a ...
On Monday, members at Labour's Annual Conference voted in favour of a motion to replace First Past the Post with Proportional Representation in general elections. This comes after Unison, Unite, and the GMB, three of Britain's largest trade unions, came out in support of PR in the months following the 2021 Labour Conference, where the withholding of such resulted in the failure of a similar motion despite nearly eighty per cent of Constituency delegates supporting it. However, it seems as though Labour's National Executive Committee will ignore the motion, preventing such a promise from becoming part of their next manifesto. ...
I have my bawse face on while writing this blog post. You will just have to believe me. You see I am sick to the back teeth of having celebrities hijack every facet of life. While the rest of us experience mental and physical ailments, see children leave home and cry endlessly for months on ... The post Jumping on the Celebrity Bandwagon appeared first on A Midlifer in London .
I have been in politics for more than half a century, but I cannot remember a time when our Country was in such peril. We have a government which is pursuing a reckless ideology and ignoring all the common-sense considerations ... Continue reading →
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The country already had big issues to deal with before last Friday: price increases that are severely reducing the standard of living for many, a health service which is struggling to cope, climate change which is becoming more visible, and a war in the Ukraine. To this the government has added a completely unnecessary financial crisis. Another major unforced error following on from Brexit. The best thing we can do to help sort out the mess is to get elected and to contribute in some form or other to a sensible and effective government. In this respect at least, the ...
We are very sorry out the outage overnight. Our technical wizards have been working on it and have now restored LDV to its former glory. As usual, please email us on voice@libdemvoice.org if you spot any issues with the website. Sometimes all the team are either glued to Strictly, in a council meeting or out for a drink and miss these things. * Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems. ...
Those of us who are old enough will remember the 1970s when the IMF was asked to provide a huge loan to rescue the country from a balance of payments crisis, an intervention that wrecked the Labour Government's reputation for economic competence and helped pave the way for a Thatcher victory in 1979. The conditions on which that money was lent to the UK included the sort of austerity measures later introduced by the Cameron Government in an effort to get borrowing under control. It sealed the reputation of the IMF as a right wing facing organisation, whose remedies for ...
The Dundee University Swing Dance Society recently contacted us, advising us : "We teach and dance timeless vintage dances like lindy hop, charleston and solo jazz. We are hoping to reach out to the people in the local community and last time we were dancing at the Magdalen Green jazz band concert, a few ladies have reached out to us for more information." We have assisted the society to get publicity about its classes onto local community noticeboards in the West End. The society's taster class is tomorrow - Thursday 29th September - at 7pm at DUSA on floor 5. ...
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