Just up the road from the derelict St Saviour's Church stands this distinctive building. Latterly known as the Imperial Hotel, it was built by Arthur Wakerley as a Temperance hotel for his model Leicester suburb North Evington. Today it seems to be in the hands of the YMCA, but looks empty.
Arthur Wakerley was a Liberal, Leicester's youngest every mayor and an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate. Much more about him and North Evington will follow, I suspect, if only because I know his great granddaughter through Leicester Friends of the Earth.
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Thanks for that, Jonathan. At lunch time, a bunch of colleagues at UoL go for a walk which typically means a quick circle around Victoria Park. I'll suggest that we are a bit more adventurous and take a gawp at some of the buildings in the Clarendon Park preservation area instead.
The Imperial Hotel is far too distant, alas.
On your bikes, Phil.
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