Changes in Loughborough 2023

This time last year there had been so many changes to buildings in Loughborough during the year, that I felt I ought to record some of them on the blog. Well, this year has also seen lots of changes, so here I am again looking at a selection of developments during 2023. Of course, apart from actual building changes, there have also been lots of instances of building change of use, or simply building vacation.

Here are some photos of a few of the changes I've noticed (apologies that some are so out of focus - I was having a worse day for photography than usual!):

Moon and Bell closed

Windmill changed to a residential property (I couldn't find my later photo which I'm sure showed even more changes than this particular photo from October 2023 does)

Blacksmiths empty

Teas & Cs changed to an O2 shop

Wilko gone

Boujee Home gone (previously Oh Deer, Dunelm, Able Jacks etc.)

HSBC being renovated

Co-op still being renovated

Demolition of the former Labour Exchange on Cradock Street now completed and replaced with flats

Former Ellwoods garage and latterly a car wash still an empty site

Former Grudgings Needleworks, and latterly GTG Engineering, renovated and now known as Albert House

Work on Bedford Square now completed

Devonshire Square mural now gone, and awaiting a living wall, I believe

House on Park Road, renovation complete

House on Burton Street, renovation still on-going

Canal towpath renovated all the way from the Chain Bridge to Moor Lane Bridge

Renovation work continues at the Bellfoundry

Flats on the site of the former Royal George now under scaffolding

And that's all for now folks!! Thanks for dropping by! 

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Changes in Loughborough in 2022

So, in my last post I rather rashly promised you I'd share pics of some of the changes that have happened over the past year. Well, that has turned out to be a mammoth task, as there has just been so much change, and I certainly haven't documented even one tenth of it. So, I am sharing a few select changes that have resonated with me. 

Firstly, the extensive works to improve the area around Bedford Square and Wards End have finally been finished - or have they?

February 2022

May 2022

June 2022

Meanwhile, down at the Bellfoundry, there's lots happening, as a new museum space is being developed. Let's have a quick peek at how this work began in March 2022:

Domestic properties have also been subjected to lots of work during the past year. Here's one Victorian property. I can't find my earlier photos, so here are two from December 2022:

As have some properties close by:

And a former farm being redeveloped in April 2022 (more pics in an earlier post):

The former Co-op on Derby Road has very recently featured in a blogpost. You can see pictures of it alongside other Art Deco buildings in a post from 2021. Here it is during its renovation in January 2022:

In August 2022

And in November 2022

Meanwhile, in the town centre, the Devonshire Square mural, which was suffering a little, has now been removed completely. This picture is from March 2022, and you can see more pictures of the whole mural in an earlier blogpost.

Over on Fennel Street, which is now the A6 inner relief road, things have been happening during 2022. The first shot is from February, the other two from November:

The 1930s labour exchange over on Cradock Street has now been demolished and a new building is currently being constructed. Here are pics from March and December 2022, and you can see more over on an earlier blogpost:

And the premises nearby that used to be Ellwoods Garage, and more recently a car wash, is no longer standing. Picture from December:

A former industrial building - GTG Engineering, previously one of the Grudgings, needlemakers, premises - over on Albert Street is also having an extensive makeover. You can read more about the Grudgings factories on an earlier blogpost and in 'Loughborough in 50 buildings'. The following three pics and the last one are from June and the fourth is from November:

And although it's slightly out of Loughborough itself, here are some pics from August and October of the work going on to build houses on the former Garendon estate:

Finally, the new cemetery off Watermead Lane is all ready to be used:

Apologies for not reporting on so many of the changes happening lately, but hopefully the above will show you a teeny bit of what has been going on during 2022!

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With apologies for typos which are all mine!

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Thank you for reading this blog. You are welcome to quote passages from any of my posts, with appropriate credit. The correct citation for this looks as follows:

Dyer, Lynne (2023). Changes in Loughborough in 2022. Available from: https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2023/01/changes-in-loughborough-in-2022.html [Accessed 5 January 2023]

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I post no pictures that are not my own, unless I have express permission so to do. All text is my own, and not copied from any other information sources, printed or electronic, unless identified and credited as such. If you find I have posted something in contravention of these statements, or if there are photographs of you which you would prefer not to be here, please contact me at the address listed on the About Me page, and I will remove these.

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Lynne