The year 2020 is surely one that most of us will remember forever, when in March the whole country came to a standstill, in order to beat a virus. Life as we knew it changed and after just over nine months later we have not been able to go back to the way things once were, and a new normal has become, well, the norm!
Writing this blog over the past year has been rather interesting, and has been rather different. Originally the intention for the year was to post an article by a guest blogger once a month, and this started well, with a post about what happened to the Captain of the Zeppelin airship that dropped bombs on Loughborough in January 1916. This was followed by a post about art and artists in Loughborough, Leicestershire and Rutland. And then, the pandemic began.
Stuck at home, I struggled to write posts, as my prompts had all but disappeared. No trips out to places that would remind me things about Loughborough that I could then research and write about, so I had to rely on looking through my collection of books about Loughborough, and take my cues from there. And now I say that, there's one I missed, as I actually have a book written in 2000 called "When my cue comes: the autobiography of Rev Sidney Y. Richardson", a methodist minister in Loughborough whom I met when I was having some printing done by Team Print, and it's been 20 years since I last read it, so I should give it another go.
Other blog posts were prompted by friends and acquaintances asking me if I knew anything about something specific, and this led to a series of posts in relation to Fairmount Drive, Arthur Edward Shepherd, and Glebe House, amongst other things.
So, over the past nine months I've done more walking around the outskirts of Loughborough than I would normally have done, so please find below a selection of photographs taken during the year.
Happy New Year to you all.
January 2020
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| Former Geoff's Toys |
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Church Gate
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February 2020
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| Flooded Queen's Park |
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| House on Storer Road |
March 2020
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| Former pub on Nottingham Road bridge |
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Mountsorrel granite, Burton Street
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April 2020
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| Deserted Granby Street car park |
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Southfields Park, closed
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May 2020
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| Celebrating VE Day |
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| Gate pier on Forest Road |
June 2020
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| New style market |
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| Rainbow stones on Tuckers Road |
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| Poppies on Bowling Green Way |
July 2020
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| Harry Cook's place, Epinal Way |
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| Messenger in the pavement |
August 2020
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| Hopper on Storer Road |
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| Mucklin Lodge |
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| New housing adjacent to the GCR |
September 2020
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| Burleigh Brook Ashby Road |
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| Empty Poundstretcher |
October 2020
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| Autumn leaves on Shelthorpe Road |
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| Gate piers on Forest Road |
November 2020
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| Houses on Toothill Road |
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| Remembrance poppy at the cemetery |
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| Waymarker on new estate Epinal Way |
December 2020
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| Canal near Nottingham Road bridge |
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| Christmas lights in the market place |
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| Winter Wonderland |
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