These images show the houses on Leicester Road before they were demolished to make way for the flats
Apart from the temperance hall, the end of which can just be seen, all the buildings on the right of this image have been demolished and replaced by the Leicester Road flats
This shop, A.Freer- grocer and confectioner, is the third house on the right in the top picture. The path beside this building led to the footpath behind these houses and to the houses on the hillside.
In this photo, looking north along Leicester Road, the four houses next to the Free Church Council Institute are the ones seen in the top photo. The Church Council building was previously the Robin Hood pub. It was was purchased in 1908 after it was closed down by magistrates
A few yards south of the old Robin Hood we come to the Free Trade Inn, and next door to this pub is Benjamin Preston’s grocer’s shop
In this photo the grocer’s shop has been converted to a Post Office, and looking south we finally come to a building that survived the demolition gang- the Dog and Gun
Below are three more images of the Free Church Council Institute/Robin Hood
Leicester Road after the houses had been demolished. And below an article from The Leicester Advertiser 1966.
