TWO TOWN MAD Leicester's modern cityBack in 1963 Leicester was a truly modern city. It boasted the first automatic multi-storey car park in Europe, the first Tesco supermarket outside London, a new-fangled drive-in post office and a drive-in bank. Ray Gosling compared the multi-storey car park to a "frontier post with no guards, all automatic", but now abhors its "horrible concrete", brutalistic architecture. |  |
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The Pilgrims' Way
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Inside Out - East Midlands: Monday February 14, 2005