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    Aylestone Road, now also known as the Leicester Electricity Sports Cricket Ground, is a cricket ground in Leicester, England, which was the headquarters...
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    2km 1.2miles Aylestone Packhorse Bridge Aylestone Meadows Aylestone Park Old Aylestone    Aylestone is a suburb of Leicester in Leicestershire, England...
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    ground was opened on 10 September 1892 and is located between Aylestone Road and Welford Road on the southern edge of the city centre. The ground was developed...
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    at Grace Road in Leicester, known as The Uptonsteel County Ground for sponsorship reasons, and has also played home games at Aylestone Road in Leicester...
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    Vicarage Road is a stadium in Watford, England, and is the home stadium of Championship club Watford. An all-seater stadium, its current capacity is 22...
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    moved to a site near to Aylestone Road in order to be closer to the city centre. Leicestershire eventually returned to Grace Road in 1946, after the end...
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  • Leicester Aylestone Road Greyhound Track was a greyhound racing stadium on Aylestone Road, Leicester. The track was constructed on the Agricultural Show...
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    the summer of 1891, while Leicester Fosse temporarily played at the Aylestone Road Cricket Ground. Local legend suggests that the new ground was identified...
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    Leicester and the wider area from 1894. The first station, located within Aylestone gas works, supplied electricity for street lighting. The city's new electric...
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    Aylestone is one of twenty one electoral districts and ward within the Leicester City Council unitary area of Leicester in Leicestershire, England. It...
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  • Cressing Road, also known as the Rare Breed Meat Co. Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Braintree, Essex, and the home ground of...
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  • continued in use as a cricket ground until 2000 Goodbye Gay Meadow Book on Shrewsbury Town's old ground, Gay Meadow BBC Webpage on: Farewell Milton Road...
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    walkway ("Peace Walk") with gates (also by Lutyens) opening on to University Road. A smaller memorial near the cafe commemorates the American 82nd Airborne...
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    bridges: Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road (also recorded as Little Chelsea Bridge) and Stanbridge on the King's Road, now known as Stanley Bridge. The existing...
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    Huntingdon Ipswich Kinsley Leeds Elland Road Fullerton Park Parkside Leicester Aylestone Road Blackbird Road Liverpool Breck Park Seaforth Stanley White...
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  • Nicholas and St Xenophon Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain Aylestone Road, Leicester, LE2 7NW former Church of England parish church of All Souls...
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  • Welford Road. The ground was opened in 1892 and the first stands accommodated 3,000 spectators. The clubhouse was built on the Aylestone Road end in 1909...
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    Leicester (section Road)
    from 1928 to 1984, it also hosted speedway. A smaller track existed at Aylestone Road (1927–1929). In the public sector, University Hospitals Leicester NHS...
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  • debut for Leicestershire against the touring West Indians in 1906 at Aylestone Road, Leicester. He made four further first-class appearances, the last of...
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    were the only way to remain competitive against rail and newly developing road transport:[citation needed] Regent's Canal Hertford Union Canal – bought...
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    eventually decided against a permanent move to White City and stayed at Loftus Road. Between 1932 and 1958, the stadium hosted major British boxing events, with...
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    Aylestone Hill is a north-eastern suburb and ward of Hereford in the ceremonial county of Herefordshire, England. The ward covers the northeastern part...
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    were situated in kennels to the north called 'The Limes' in Sewardstone Road not far from Epping Forest. Walthamstow were unusual in the fact that they...
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    by Richard Biffa Ltd whose operating base at the time was in Wembley Hill Road. Richard Biffa later became Biffa Waste Services. The Lions were formed by...
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    to 7pm, Mondays to Saturdays. Stops include Smith Way (Grove Park), Aylestone Road (Leicester Royal Infirmary), Oxford Street (De Montfort University)...
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    Huntingdon Ipswich Kinsley Leeds Elland Road Fullerton Park Parkside Leicester Aylestone Road Blackbird Road Liverpool Breck Park Seaforth Stanley White...
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  • against Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. Against Leicestershire at Aylestone Road, Leicester, Seal wasn't required to bat or bowl, with the match petering...
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  • Bert Harris (category Burials at Welford Road Cemetery)
    of 14 and came second in the 'Infirmary Sports' at Aylestone Road Sports Ground (now the Grace Road Cricket Ground) two years later. Harris was born in...
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  • Leicestershire against Glamorgan in the 1924 County Championship at Aylestone Road, Leicester. With no play possible on the first two days of the match...
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    textile-mill with its own mill pond. The mill was located directly across the road from the present ground, being one of several situated along the River Maun...
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