Promenades and Ringroads - Konrad Smigielski and 1960s Leicester

[chap666ish]

I remember seeing the proposals for the Haymarket Shopping Centre and I remember the underpass being built. The destruction of the shops, school and houses on one half of King Richards road and the demolition of the grand houses in the Dane Hills area robbed the residents of their inheritence.

[ntrifle]

This is a good start for a serious re-evaluation of Smigielski but the oft-repeated claim that a "large part of Medieval Leicester...was buried" under the Holiday Inn needs further examination as it the crux of most people's criticism. All the pictures I've seen of the area show Georgian and early-Victorian buildings. Most of medieval Leicester had already gone by the turn of the nineteenth century rather than the 1960s. Its possible medieval buildings were lost I just haven't seen the evidence.

[chap666ish]

@ntrifle I think I was the the second person (after a school friend of mine) to swim in the pool at that Holiday Inn. It was the summer school holiday and the hotel was almost finished.

[michalo2able]

To little information , no opinion about his job , no actual list what hi has been done